Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, decorated sushi cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Decorated Sushi Cake In Japan, there is a type of Sushi called 'Oshi-zushi', that is made by pressing Sushi Rice and Toppings into a special mould, then it is cut into bite sized pieces to serve. This is a variation of it and it has become very popular. When you cook Rice for sushi, cook with slightly less amount of water to achieve firmer texture.
Decorated Sushi Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Decorated Sushi Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook decorated sushi cake using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Decorated Sushi Cake:
- Prepare <Sushi Rice>
- Make ready 3 cups (180 ml) cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice
- Prepare 75 ml Rice Vinegar
- Take 4 tablespoons Sugar
- Prepare 1 & 1/4 teaspoons Salt
- Make ready <Filling>
- Make ready Canned Tuna (185g can) & Japanese Mayonnaise
- Make ready 1/2 Avocado *sliced
- Get *Other Suggestions: Chicken Soboro (find my recipe), Salmon Flakes, Scrambled Egg, Teriyaki Chicken, etc
- Get <Topping>
- Prepare 3 Eggs *finely scrambled
- Make ready Sliced of Ham
- Take Carrot *sliced and blanched in salted water
- Take Cucumber
- Prepare Sliced Cheese
- Take *Other Suggestions: Smoked Salmon (formed into Rose flowers), Thin Omelet (thinly cut into noodles), Cooked Prawns, Snow Peas, Sugar Snap Pea, Asparagus, Broccolini, Cucumber, etc
A round cake tin is used as mould, and it is decorated. Sushi Cake is Sushi Rice molded and decorated with fish and vegetables so it looks like a cake. It is very colorful and festive, and a great dish for a celebration of some sort. It looks a little complicated, but it is quite easy to make it at home.
Steps to make Decorated Sushi Cake:
- When you cook Rice for sushi, cook with slightly less amount of water to achieve firmer texture. Basically you need same volume of rice and water. If you are using Rice Cooker, set the water level slightly lower than the mark. *Note: Wash rice well before cooking.
- Make Sushi Vinegar by mixing the ingredients together.
- Pour the Sushi Vinegar over the HOT rice, then empty it into a large mixing bowl. Mix it well gently and thoroughly, fanning the rice with a fan or piece of cardboard to help the rice cool quickly. Cover the rice with a damp cloth to stop the rice drying out.
- While Rice is cooking and cooling down, prepare other ingredients for Topping and Filling.
- Line a round cake tin (I used 21cm tin) with plastic food wrap. Fill it with 1/2 Sushi Rice evenly and press down. Arrange Filling ingredients on the rice, cover with remaining 1/2 Sushi Rice, and press down.
- Place a serving plate on the tin, and flip it over to transfer the Sushi Cake onto the plate. Remove the food wrap.
- Decorate it with Topping ingredients. Children are very creative and they will enjoy decorating the cake.
Actually, it's much easier than Sushi rolls. Sushi cake is a great choice for a party, where everyone can get a small slice of this yummy sushi. Often times, the sushi would be nicely decorated on the top layer with all kind of ingredients. With all kind of ingredients, a sushi cake is often colorful. Prepare the cake mix as directed; divide the batter between the pans and bake as directed.
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