Classics of sushi, or do you know how to make rolls at home?

Japanese cuisine, peculiar and unusually tasty, constantly excites the imagination of Europeans. It's not enough for us to try her exotic traditional foods - now each of us necessarily wants to try to cook something from this kitchen. For example, amazingly delicious rolls, a kind of popular Japanese dish - sushi.

How to prepare rolls at home? Simply enough, if you know that they are cute rolls made from rice, filled with a variety of fillings and carefully wrapped in nori sheets. Unlike the classic Japanese cuisine of sushi, this dish is slightly more difficult to prepare, but with experience everyone can acquire the necessary skills and become a real master. In addition, when you understand how to make rolls correctly, you can fully connect the imagination and, perhaps, invent some new recipe.

Before you start directly preparing this amazing dish, you should take care that the kitchen has all the necessary appliances and ingredients, and the chef himself was familiar with several important rules that require real Japanese rolls. As for kitchen appliances, a knife, a bamboo woven napkin, a bowl (best of all wooden) will be required for cooking - it will be needed for cooling rice, and wooden sticks for cooking as well as for food. Before you prepare the rolls at home, you need to study the scheme of their construction - from the first time the novice cook does not work. Competently roll the roll - a real art that is not subject to newcomers, and nothing can be done about it - just train.

The simplest recipe, suitable for beginners who do not know yet how to make rolls quickly and correctly, but striving to improve their skills, is called norimaki. In a nutshell, you can say that it's a dish made from rice stuffed and wrapped in a sheet of seaweed nori. To prepare norimaki, you need to take a bamboo napkin, lay on top of it a small sheet of nori, which in turn will lay out the layers of the filling, leaving a little space at one end. The first is boiled rice (small and round grains), which must be gently smeared with a small amount of traditional Japanese condiment wasabi, after it - slices of tuna (you can take any fish fillets or fresh slices of vegetables). Further, with the help of a bamboo napkin, the roll can be wrapped-after moistening the edge of the algae leaf free of the filling, with rice vinegar, cut off excess and divide the finished dish into six pieces with a sharp knife.

If you already know how to prepare rolls at home so that they are attractive in appearance and tasteful, you can try to complicate the task. For example, prepare Uramaki, that is, rolls turned inside out. Their preparation is difficult enough, therefore it is very important to observe the correct sequence of actions: a bamboo mat to lay food film, in the middle of which to lay out prepared and cooled rice. On this dense layer, half the algae leaf of the noria and the filling are moved. By the way, about the filling: for Uramaki you can take everything that seems delicious to you - cucumbers or carrots, strips of fish fillets or squid rings, crab meat or even avocado. Ready filling can be lightly poured with mayonnaise, after which the roll is recognized ready to be rolled up and cut into six pieces with a knife. You can also roll ready-made rolls in caviar of flying fish - it will be very attractive and, undoubtedly, delicious.

Think about how to prepare rolls at home so as to surprise your family or friends. For example, using a recipe for dessert rolls especially for lovers of sweet. Take ready-made thin pancakes (or bake them yourself), cut, giving a rectangular shape, and lay on them any tasty stuffing - cottage cheese, jam or jam, as well as fresh fruit. Carefully wrap the roll, pour hot chocolate or berry syrup over it and send it to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Such an amazing dish, prepared with love and care, was not even dreamed of by professional chefs at Japanese restaurants.