If you are a Sushi lover, you probably want to know how to make sushi.
Well, it is easier than you think! You already know that it is more than
just raw fish, and it is an art itself, but making Sushi, like everything,
gets easier with practice. Let’s start with the basics.

To make sushi you will need:

• Fish - it could be tuna, salmon (better fresh but it can be frozen too) or broiled eel
• Rice (short-grain glutenous rice is better)
• Rice vinegar
• Wasabi paste (or powder to mix it yourself)
• Dried seaweed (nori)
• Water
• A cutting board
• A rollable matt or something similar
• A good knife
• Glass plates and bowls for serving
• Plastic wrap

Getting started

First, start with thawing the fish if it is frozen, by keeping it wrapped
and running cold water over it in the sink.

Then, start cooking the rice. First, measure around five to six scoops of
rice, then clean the rice with water a couple of times, and then cook it
with the indicated amount of water.

While the rice is cooking, you should cut the fish. The experts say that
the secret of great sushi is in the way the fish is cut, so it is easy to
bite into it, not getting any hard pieces of fish or its skin. So, cut thin
wafers of tuna until all the tuna is cut and put them on the glass plate.
Boil some water in a pot.

Now, open the salmon, and cut it the same way as the tuna, in small wafers.
It is time for the eel. The water in the pot should be boiling by now, so
turn it off, and put the eel still wrapped in the water.

Make the wasabi paste adding water to the powder until you get a thick
paste.

The rice should be ready, so start adding rice vinegar and stirring it until
you like the taste of the rice. The rice should be sticky, so you can start
making the rice beds.

Cut a piece of plastic wrap, and put a chunk of rice in the center. Fold
the plastic wrap making a little pocket and compact it by pulling it with
your fingers. Once the rice is compact, open the plastic wrap and your have
your nice bed of rice.

Now, take one bed of rice, put a little amount of wasabi on top, and put a
piece of tuna covering the wasabi. Repeat the same procedure with the
Salmon.

Take the eel out of the water, open it up, and cut it (its better to use
scissors) to the same size as the other pieces of fish, and repeat the same
procedure. Now you made sushi and it is ready to eat!

Making sushi rolls

Take the nori (dried seaweed) cut it in pieces of 5 inches wide, put it over
the cutting board and the rollable matt, and extend a layer of rice on it,
leaving around one inch of it uncovered. Wet your finger, then run it along
the uncovered strip of seaweed, making a sticky edge. Lay a strip of tuna
over the rice bed and roll it, making it tight with the rollable matt. Open
it, and you’ll have a tube of fish and rice. Cut it in pieces to serve.

Enjoy!