A simple way to make a nice bed of rice for your sushi, without getting your hands messy.

Ingredients

• Sushi rice.
• Mirin
• Rice vinegar
• sugar
• sushi rolling mat
• Plastic wrap
• sushi

Directios

• Cook 2 cups of good quality sushi rice, the cheap stuff doesn’t work well. Rice cooking instructions are on the bag.
• Place cooked rice into a large mixing bowl.
• Add 3 tbsp Mirin. Mirin is a seasoned rice wine. You can get it at most stores these days.
• Add 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• Sprinkle 1 tsp sugar over the rice.
• Gently fold the mirin, vinegar, and sugar into the rice. Folding is just gently turning the rise over until it’s all mixed up.

• Next you need a sushi rolling mat, and the plastic wrap. Mats are only a few bucks.

• Cover the mat with the plastic wrap. make sure you have a few inches extra on the sides.
• using a wooden spoon. spread the rice evenly over about the first half of the mat. the more rice you put down, the thicker your rice bed will be. I usually make mine about a 3/4 inch thick.

• Roll the rice just like you would roll a sushi roll. Gently compress the roll as you go. I like to flatten the rice a bit. The fish stays on better.

• Unwrap the rice. and cut it into one and a half to two inch long pieces. Slap some fish on the rice, and you are good to go.