Sushi: Easy Recipes for Making Sushi at Home

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Sushi isdelicious as a quick snack or as part of a more substantial Japanese dinner and makes perfect fingerfood. The term sushi is used for dishes based on sumeshi, meaning vinegared rice, the most vital part of sushi-making. This bookexplains how to cook the rice perfectly. Start with simple rolled sushi using classic ingredients such as cucumber, tuna or salmon. Once youve mastered the easy ones you can explore more adventurous variations. The recipes use easy-to-find ingredients, including everything from spinach, asparagus and carrots to prawns, crab and smoked salmon. If you thought making sushi was strictly for the professionals, Sushi will amaze you. With these recipes you will never eat ready-made sushi again. There are also recipes for sashimi and the miso soups that traditionally end a sushi meal as well as others for making great accompaniments, like fabulous pickles and three ways with wasabi. You can have parties where you provide the ingredients and guests make up their own hand rolls from their favourite ingredients, or you can do it for them it takes no time at all! This is really easy party food, healthy snack food and great food for kids.

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Emi Kazuko is a Japanese food writer and journalist based in London. She attended the prestigious Tokyo Kaikan Cookery School and is proficient in Japanese, Chinese, French and Italian cooking. Her aspiration is to make Japanese easy home cooking part of our daily diet.Fiona Smith is an award-winning food writer and food stylist. She is deputy food editor of Cuisine magazine, in which her recipes and travel stories feature on a regular basis. She runs a successful food styling business and is the author of several cookbooks including Beets, Leaves and Limes, Pates and Terrines, Fondue and Dim Sum.Elsa Petersen-Schepelern was a Danish-Australian food writer based in London.