Apple Sushi

Summary

Ingredients

• 1 cup rice (sushi rice), espresso cup
• 1 ½ small water (espresso cup)
• 1 piece (s) seaweed, (kombu)
• 1 teaspoon sake
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar, light
• 1 teaspoon sea salt, coarse (espresso spoon)
• 1 ½ tablespoon sugar, extra fine
• 100 g salmon, smoked or other smoked fish
• 1 cucumber (s)
• some wasabi paste

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Instructions

1. Put rice in large bowl and cover with cold water. Vigorously stir rice with your hands to wash it. Carefully pour off the cloudy water. Repeat this process 2 more times until the water is clear. Drain rice in a sieve.
2. Put rice, water, and kombu in large, heavy saucepan with lid. Bring to boil over medium heat without lifting lid. Once water boils, reduce heat to low and cook for 3 minutes, keeping lid closed. Reduce heat further to very low and cook for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and let rice rest for 5-10 minutes, keeping lid closed, until no water remains.
3. Remove from heat and open lid. Add sake, cover pot with kitchen towel, and replace lid. Let rice soak for 10-15 minutes.
4. In small saucepan, combine rice vinegar and salt. Heat over low heat, stirring, until salt dissolves. Add sugar and continue stirring over low heat until sugar dissolves. Do not boil.
5. Transfer rice to wooden or plastic bowl. Spread evenly with wooden spatula. Make well in center and pour vinegar seasoning into well. Carefully mix seasoning into rice with wooden spatula, keeping rice grains whole. Let rice cool to body temperature (approximately 37 °C / 98 °F). Cover with damp cloth and place lid on top to maintain temperature while preparing sushi.
6. Finely chop smoked salmon. Mix one-third of salmon with rice and a small amount of wasabi. Take walnut-sized portion of rice in moistened hand, shape into ball. Place salmon over ball and shape with hands until rice is completely covered.
7. Roll cucumber on work surface to soften. Peel thinly using sharp knife. Cut pieces for stem and insert into top of sushi. Carve remaining cucumber into leaf shapes and arrange on sushi next to stem to resemble apple with leaf.