Gunkan Maki Sushi with Prawn & Cucumber
Method and ingredients for Gunkan-Maki sushi with shrimps, cucumber and curd cheese.
Preparation
Step 1
Mix cucumber cubes, prawn pieces and cream cheese in a bowl.
Step 2
Cut 1 nori sheet: cut a strip of 3 cm on one side against the lines and put aside
Step 3
Cut 4 nori strips using the given lines and set aside ready (approx. 3 cm x 15 cm 4 sheets).
Step 4
Form 4 x 20 g sushi rice into oval balls with wet fingers.
Step 5
Place a nori strip around each ball, "glue" it with a few grains of sticky rice and press it well.
Step 6
Place one portion of the prepared cucumber and prawn mixture on each rice ball.
Step 7
Arrange gunkan with cucumber and prawns to garnish and serve with Kikkoman soy sauce.
Tip:
When cooking rice, use the ratio of rice: water = 1 : 1. Less water is used when preparing sushi rice than when preparing conventional rice.
*Sushi rice (approx. 1 kg cooked sushi rice)
450 g (540 ml) Japanese rice
450 ml water
Cook rice first then season with
100 ml Kikkoman seasoning for sushi rice
or alternatively:
70 ml rice vinegar
30 g sugar
15 g salt
Recipe-ID: 945
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