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Make your own sushi at home
Recipe for home-made salmon sushi

Chefs in Japan who wish to become sushi chefs have to go to professional schools for years. Once they have graduated, they have to work as apprentices for several years more before they can become fully certified sushi chefs - a very respectable title in Japan. Making sushi is considered an art and thus it can only be perfected through learning from the master. No wonder, a sushi meal in a decent restaurant can easily go over Yen 10,000. The alternative is to go to a conveyer belt sushi place where a robot does the job and sushi is placed on a conveyer belt as you sit on a counter. You pick whatever you like and then pay accordingly. As you can expect, this is very inexpensive, but does not have the charm of a sushi meal.

In Japan, sushi is not just a meal - it is an experience that involves selecting the fish that you want (sometimes from a pool right in front of you), watching the chef prepare it for you, and then enjoying it as fresh as you possibly can. Of course, some sushi restaurants have gone even farther by adding an entertainment component and there are a lot of very interesting and creative sushi restaurants all over Japan

For its exquisite taste and lack of any added fat, sushi is becoming popular all over the world. Surprisingly, sushi restaurants outside of Japan rarely have one of these highly qualified chefs. Does the sushi taste any different? The reaction we obtained has been mixed. Since a majority of sushi lovers have never eaten sushi in one of those upscale places in Japan, they are just happy with they have eaten in the local restaurants. However, those who have traveled to Japan, try to find Japanese restaurants where they have a Japanese chef. (Related article: Why Japanese don't get fat?)

Home-made sushi

What if you could make sushi at home, save all the cost, and eat it as you make it? Well, the Japanese sushi industry will end up in a big recession. There is no way that an amateur can duplicate the professionalism and expertise of a Japanese chef, but here is the recipe to make salmon sushi at home with minimum ingredients and practically no expertise necessary.

What will you need?

Three salted salmon steaks
One cucumber
One oz. (approximately 25 gm) pickled daikon radish
Two cups of uncooked rice
Mixture of 1/4 cups of sushi vinegar and rice vinegar with one tablespoon each of sugar and salt

How to make it?

Cook rice as you would normally and transfer it to a large mixing bowl and then pour the mixture of vinegars, salt, and sugar.
Mix these two very well and let it cool down.
Julienne the radish and the cucumber.
Grill the salmon steaks and flake with chopsticks.
Add the rice, radish, and salmon steaks. Mix it well. Using your hands you can mold these into small balls shaped like sushi.

How to serve and eat sushi?

Use your chop sticks to eat these after dipping in soy sauce. (Related article: Soy substitute)
Try to eat one whole piece at a time. Chilled beer or white wine can be consumed together.

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