Hot Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Jumbled Sushi

Very easy to make and looks and tastes gorgeous. This sushi recipe is perfect for family dinner or casual gatherings. Japanese families would serve this as a main meal, but you may like to serve it as an accompanying dish for a BBQ or summer buffet.

Ingredients (serves 2-3 as a main dish):

2 cups (180ml cup which come with a rice cooker) short/medium grain rice or sushi rice

2 tablespoons sake (or dry white wine)

Sushi Vinegar:
– 4 tablespoons rice vinegar/white vinegar
– 1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons white sesame seeds (roasted)

1 portion hot smoked salmon (150g)

½ cucumber

2 tablespoons chopped pickled ginger

Salt

Method:

1. Rinse rice and put in a rice cooker. Add sake/wine and water to the water level mark of the rice cooker. Switch on.
2. Mix vinegar, sugar and salt to make the sushi vinegar.
3. When the rice is cooked, put the cooked rice on a shallow tray and drizzle with sushi vinegar while the rice is hot.
4. Mix sushi vinegar with rice and cool quickly using a hand held fan. Mix sesame seeds.
5. Meanwhile, prepare salmon, cucumber and pickled ginger.
6. Remove skin and any bone from salmon pieces. Flake with a fork.
7. Slice cucumber thinly and soak in salted water (1 teaspoon of salt in 1 cup of cold water ) for 5 minutes. Drain and squeeze water out.
8. Chop pickled ginger.
9. When the sushi rice is cooled down enough, mix through salmon, cucumber and ginger.