Learn How to make Sushi - Inari Sushi - Sushi Rice

When I was an elementary school student, every spring time in April, School organised going on a picnic. We had to start walking from 9:00am in the morning, until we reached to the place like parks around 12:00pm. It was fun, but it was so tiring for children to walk for a long hours.

The only things made me willingly walked was my mother’s hand made bento box with full of sushi with Inari sushi and Futomaki sushi.

My mother’s bento box was so creative, and every girl in my circle of friends said, I am jealous! How come does your mom cook so yummy looking bento every day!

The day before the picnic, my mother asked me and my sister, which would you like more for your picnic bento box, Inari or maki sushi?

My favourite was Inari, and I replied to my mom, I want more Inari, mom! My sister preferred maki sushi more than inari sushi, then.

When we reached the place, we found the place to sit and have sushi, and other dishes like breaded prawn, deep fired chicken, and omelette etc.
We could spend about 500 yen for sweets like candy, biscuits, and chocolate.

I was chatting with friends and eating our delicious sushi with big smile on our face.
Sushi tasted so delicious!

I would like to introduce how to prepare Inari sushi and futomaki sushi.

The Recipe for making Inari sushi

Sushi rice recipe

• Rice vinegar – 60ml
• Sugar – 30g / 45g  (if you like sweet sushi rice)
• Sea Salt – 10g / 15g

Mix all three ingredients in a bowl and dissolve them,

You could heat it with low heat to dissolve them.

How to cook sushi rice

• 2 cups of rice 180ml x 2 cups
• 370 ml of water

Wash the rice with water, stirring rice with your hands changing water 5-7 times until water runs clear – Almost!

Put the washed rice with water in the cooking pan with the lid, and leave the rice for 30minutes to 1 hour.

And cook with medium heat.

Then bring to boil, and reduce the heat to low, and simmer it for 10-12 minutes.
If you are cooking more rice, you’ll need to simmer it longer.

And after turned off the heat, leave the rice with the lid on still for 15 minutes,
And mix the cooked rice with sushi vinegar.

How to cook Inari pocket

2 - Deep fried tofu (it’s called Abura-age) cut into 2 or 4 pieces

2 tablespoon – soy sauce

2-3 teaspoon – sugar

1 small piece of ginger finely chopped

200ml water (you could use 200ml of dashi stock but I never use it, it’s tasty with ginger, soy sauce and sugar with 200mil water)

Boil the water and put deep fried Tofu, the soy sauce and ginger and bring it to boil and reduce the heat and cook further 5-7minutes with low heat.

Temperature of Sushi is ideally like our body temperature.

And you could add edamame beans, green beans, sesame seeds, or pickled ginger to sushi rice, and put this sushi rice to Inari pockets.

Enjoy Inari Sushi Making! 


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Sake Vessels

People might think what sake is tatsted with?
In Sake tasting classes or events, I noticed the organaisers use white wine glasses for sake tasting.

For most of people in UK, when it comes to sake drinking in Japanese restaurants, they drink piping hot sake with ochoko from tokkuri.

Tokkuri on the right side of this image

Various ochoko, and the gold one is for cerebration for new year, wedding etc.
The blue glass one is called kiriko.
The ochoco has blue circles, this is called kiki-choco.
In Japan, Sake sommelier is called kikizakeshi.
Kiki means in Japanese is listening.
"Sake tasting in Japan use a range of the senses to get a fuller appreciation of Sake.
The clarity and colour of the sake is assessed with the help of kiki-choco that have two blue circles on the bottom, which can be used to gauge the clarity of the sake.
The clarity of the colour of the sake, taste, and the sound of the sake pouring out, and the taste is the most important sense, and sake tasting is impossible without the sense of smell."

I have received kiki-choco when I was certified as a sake sommelier!

 I think it is easy to identify the sense of smell of sake, Aroma.

As you could see the colour of the sake are all different.

These sake were so aromatic and tastes phenomenal, and I was so impressed with the beautiful taste of
sake, and the precious discovery from my country Japan.

As you've seen the wooden vessels, these are called Masu made of cedar.
Sake was drunk from masu directly, and still used on ceremonial occasions in Japan.
Masu were originally designed to measure rice, and hold 180ml (1 Go)=1合。
Japanese rice cookers have the measurement cup which always holds 180ml.

Hope you enjoyed a little bit of sake tasting, and variety of sake vessels

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Salmon Nigiri Sushi - Master Sushi Lesson 2nd Feb London

Who won't resist to taste this delicious Salmon Nigiri sushi?
I  prefer to taste  raw salmon to cooked salmon.
They taste quite diffrent, uncooked and cooked.

Raw salmon is really soft and sweet, it almost melt in the month...

Slicing raw salmon is quite easy!
Forming Nigiri Sushi needs skills

Learn how to slice raw salmon with a chef

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Kids Sushi Lesson Father and son

Father and son came to SushiQueen Sushi Lesson today!
They've learnt so much!
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Sake and Chocolate Matching - Green & Blacks

I was tasting Tuki no katura sake last week.
This sake is junmai sake, and it is really fruity, and tasted like wine wine.

I tasted it chilled in a wine glass.
I thought this sake Tuki no katura could be good tasting with chocolate.
I tasted it with Green & Blacks Dark chocolate 70% cocoa.
It was phenomenal :)
I never thought sake tasting could be so tasty with chocolate.
Sake enhances the flavour of the food that you are tasting.

Tuki no Katura junmai sake is from Kyoto Japan.

Sake Challenge at harrods

I've been to Sake Challenge at Harrods Tasting room on the lower ground floor.
There are 44 kinds of Sake to taste, and give each sake to review, There are 33 sake sommeliers
attended, and it was lovely to taste new sake I have never tasted before, and great to catch up and net working with fellow
sake sommeliers from different countries!

Beautiful display

We had to tasting without knowing what we were tasting.
And at the end, they show us the bottle to identify.
It was interesting procedure!

                                                kanpai!

Potato Nikujaga recipe

Have you ever tried Nikujaga?
I've cooked 2 types of Nikujaga the other days.
One with konniyaku, and another one was with shirataki (noodle like yam)
They are made from the same vegetable which is rich in high fibre.
I've heard if we consume conniyaku or shirataki once a week, we keep our ideal weight....

Potato x2 ( New potato x 12-15 pieces )
carrot x 1
onion x 1/2
Free range chicken x 100g - 200g or pork or beef
konnyaku x 1 packet
soy sauce x 4-5 table spoon
sake x 2 table spoon
sugar x 2-3 table spoon ( How sweet you'd like)
water or dashi x 500ml ( enough to cover the ingredients)
Mirin x 1-2 table spoon
Green peas x 30g

Cook chicken with vegetable oil, and add all the vegetables to it to stir fry, then potatoes, then konniyaku or shirataki, and add dashi or water, sake, sugar, and soy, and bring to boil, and discard the white bubble bits and simmer it till potato is tender with low to medium heat, and you could stir 1-2 table spoon of mirin for more flavour at the end to give this dish shine ( grow) :)
Add green peas at the end and stir them to it.
Serve with Rice, or have it as it is. Delish.

Konniyaku

discard the white bubble bits

With Shirataki

Serve with rice.

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