Mom’s Sushi Rice

Description

Simple and easy sushi rice from my mom’s recipe. Can be modified to your taste.

Ingredients

• 2 ¼ cups Japanese sushi-style rice
• 1 (4 inch) piece konbu dried kelp (Optional)
• 3 cups water
• ¼ cup rice vinegar
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 1 ¼ teaspoons salt

Instructions

1. Place rice into a large
2. deep bowl. Fill with cold water and rub rice together with hands until water turns milky white. Pour off cloudy water
3. being careful not to pour out rice. Repeat 3 or 4 times until you can see rice through 3 inches of water.
4. Drain rice in a fine strainer
5. then place into a saucepan along with konbu and 3 cups water. Allow to stand for 30 minutes. Stir together rice vinegar
6. sugar
7. and salt until dissolved in a small bowl; set aside.
8. Cover
9. and bring rice to a boil over high heat
10. then reduce heat to low
11. and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to stand
12. covered
13. for 5 minutes.
14. Scrape rice into a bowl; remove and discard konbu. Stir in vinegar mixture until well incorporated and no lumps of rice remain. Allow to cool at room temperature. For a shinier appearance
15. use an electric fan to cool rice rapidly.

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Servings: 10