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How To Make Sushi Nigiri Butterfly Shrimp

Ingredients for sushi nigiri butterfly shrimp are: plain butterfly shrimp, small shaped ball of sushi rice, wasabi, soy sauce.

Plain butterfly shrimp are not readily available at local stores or Asian grocers, so you need to buy plain shrimp and cut them to create the butterfly look.

How To Butterfly Shrimp

This is easy to do. First, buy frozen pre cooked shrimp, packaged or in a shrimp ring. Buy the medium to large size. As they are already cooked so all you need to do is thaw them.



Once thawed, remove any icy around the shrimp. Then take a small knife, cut into the shrimp as shown and cut into the tail shell as well, then carefully remove the shell.

Don't cut the shrimp in half, just cut about 3/4 into the shrimp.


Now flatten the shrimp, and you have the 'butterfly shrimp', as shown in this photo. These shrimp still have the tail on. To remove the tail shell cut into it, or gently crunch the shell then carefully remove it from the shrimp. There is a shrimp tail inside the shell that we want to keep intact. It hangs over the sushi rice.



Using a 'nigiri mold', or palm of your hand, make a formed shape of sushi rice as shown in this next photo, then put a small dab of wasabi on top of the rice,


Then place your shrimp on top of the wasabi and sushi rice.


You can make your sushi rice whatever size you like, but common size is palm of your hand. Just make sure to use the appropriate shrimp size so that it covers the top of the rice once it has been cut as butterfly shape.

Serve with a dab of wasabi on the side, and a small dish of soy sauce, and include chop sticks as well. Nigiri can also be eaten with ones' hands.
To eat, dip the shrimp side of the nigiri into the soy sauce and then eat.

FYI

Wasabi paste is very potent and hot, so only put a small amount, just a dab, on top of the rice. If you want the same taste but not as potent tasting, try using the wasabi made from horseradish. It is same color, just not as hot. It is also cheaper than wasabi paste. Its' texture is not as paste like, but it is more edible overall. It is available at most grocery stores in the condiment section - usually labelled as wasabi.

You can use whatever condiment you like on top of the rice, wasabi is the most commonly used.


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