Sushi question: Making your own, What are good things to add to it? Also, anyone know how to make Spicy mayo?

Question

I steer clear from Sashimi... since I can't guarantee that the fish I buy is fresh enough...
I generally use cooked shrimp, some avocado, sometimes cucumbers marinated in rice wine vinegar... Anyone have any other suggestions? OR anyone know how to make that Spicy Mayo that the sushi restaurants use in their "spicy tuna rolls"?

Answer 1

For the spicy sauce, don't use Tabasco! Tabasco has too much vinegar, for a better flavor, instead mix the mayonnaise with a spicy chile sauce, such as Huy Fong Sriracha Hot Chile Sauce:
http://www.cosmicchile.com/site/huy-fong-sriracha.html
(The sushi bar at the restaurant I worked at used this one.)

For Kim-bap, don’t use hot dogs (sorry, I think that’s gross).
My Mom's Kim-bap:
+ pickled daikon radish (the Japanese use this too in Futomaki rolls)
+ carrots: julienne and cook lightly in oil and salt until soft and wilted
+ spinach: drop briefly in boiling water (do not overcook) and then marinate with sesame oil, salt and minced garlic
+ egg: cook like a omelet and cut into long thin strips
optional: imitation crabmeat OR lean ground beef (cooked in soy sauce)
For the Korean version, flavor the rice with sesame oil and sesame seeds instead of vinegar (Japanese). Remember to cut the flavor into the rice to prevent from mashing the sticky rice together. Although you can make it without the pickled daikon radish, I find it adds a crucial tang.

If you can find it, you can use unagi (eel) which is cooked.
Or with the shrimp, you can fry it and make shrimp tempura.

Be creative. One particularly creative cook I knew used couscous, chives and a few other ingredients, which I can’t remember, wrapped in seaweed. Although initially wary, it was surprisingly tasty.

Answer 2

-Sushi Seaweed.
-2 cucumbers, sliced lengthwise into pieces about 1 centimeter in width.
-Dried pork sung.
-Two eggs, beaten.
-Sesame oil, about 1/4 cup.
-About 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
-Rice, sugar, and rice vinegar.

Slice the cucumbers lengthwise. Marinate them in a mixture consisting of the sesame oil and salt mixed together. Put it in the fridge.

Take the rice, about 5 cups, and fold about 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon plus 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar. The rice should taste sweet and sour.

Heat a medium skillet and add some oil to it. Pour the beaten eggs in the skillet and fry until done. When done, fold the egg in half and cut into strips (about 1.5 cm wide)

Take out a sheet of seaweed. Take the rice and spread it on the seaweed, about 1/2 cup per sheet. Make sure the rice covers the seaweed. Add about a tablespoon of the pork sung (we're working hamburger way) and put in the middle, sprinkling across the middle. Add a strip of egg, and a slice of cucumber, and fold in the part of the seaweed that's closest to you. fold it in and then roll up the rest.
(If my rolling instructions, please read something else, but the ingredients should be wonderful ! Use this site to learn how to roll your sushi : http://www.sushilinks.com/sushi-recipes/california-roll.html)

Hope this helps !

Answer 3

Vegetable roll. If you live near a Harris Teeter, they make a great one! If not, here's how to make it: Prepare sticky sushi rice (google for recipe) Spread rice over nori, flip sheet over for inside out roll. Place thinly sliced carrot, cucumber and avocado on nori. Roll up sushi tightly using bamboo mat. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds. Slice into 6 pieces with sharp knife. Dip in ginger sauce: 1 tsp chopped fresh ginger root 1/2c soy sauce 1/4c rice wine vinegar 1/4c sweet onion, chopped Whir in blender for 30 seconds.

Answer 4

I am of Asian ancestry, and my mom makes the best kim-bap, a Korean version of california rolls. you cook the carrots so that they are still a little crunchy, and then cook hotdogs. then you cut up fresh avacado and cucumber. in the rice you add rice wine vinegar and sesame seeds. then you just add the ingredients in and roll it up. serve it with some miso soup!

Answer 5

you can do some sushi with fake crabs. For the psicy tuna it is very easy: for each can of tuna use 1 tbsp of mayo and few drops of Tabasco. I have tried it and it is really good. you can try to make some sushi with sardine fish.

Answer 6

thinly sliced omelet, cucumber, crab meat imitation, caviar, those are the common things that i have when i make sushi rolls