Maki Sushi Rice (Rice Cooker)

Chickee's Note:

This is my recipe for sushi rice. Makes quite a bit- will make 5 nori sheets worth (which makes 10 nori rolls the same size as you get from the sushi shop!). Aussie cup size (250ml) used.

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 10 rolls w ...

• 2 ½ cups short-grain rice , sushi rice, such as koshikari.
• 100 ml rice vinegar
• 60 ml mirin
• 3 teaspoons caster sugar
• 2 teaspoons salt

Directions:

1. Rinse the rice well under running water, put it in the bowl of your rice maker.
2. Add the amount of water required by the rice maker. In mine, 2 1/2 cups of rice is 4 measures of the rice cooker "cup", so I fill up the bowl until the "4" marker on the side of the bowl.
3. Put the rice cooker on "Cook".
4. Meanwhile, mix up the dressing by combining all remaining ingredients. Stir well to dissolve the sugar and the salt.
5. Once the rice cooker has finished cooking, let it sit on 'Heat' for 5 minutes.
6. Take out the rice cooker bowl and sit it on a trivet on your benchtop. Grab a friend with a handheld fan or set up an electric fan a little way away from the bowl. Take the dressing and a small plastic rice paddle, and pour a little of the dressing in a spiral pattern over the rice (starting from the outside).
7. Using the rice paddle, lightly stir/mix the rice while your friend fans the rice (or you have the fan on low). Continue in this fashion until all of the dressing is used, the rice is cool and glossy.

Reviews

[Ingy]

This was a perfect recipe for perfect sushi rice! I didn't add the mirin because I just moved to Japan and can't read the katakana and kanji food labels. Thanks for a keeper that I use almost daily!

[AndiJ78]

I thought the amounts were off, the maki "dressing" came out bitter from too much vinegar. I should have known not to try a new recipe :( I did enjoy finding a way to use the rice cooker to make the rice itself, so it was not a total loss.