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How To Make Sushi, Chirashi Tuna

Ingredients for this sushi rice bowl are: sushi grade raw tuna, bamboo leaf or shiso leaf, seasoned sushi rice, wasabi, fish dipping sauce.

Buy The Sushi Grade Tuna

Asian grocers usually do not sell frozen sushi grade tuna blocks. Buy the frozen block of saku sushi grade tuna at your local fish market. The cost is about $20. With that tuna you could make several tuna sushi rolls, or the same cuts of tuna can be used to make sushi nigiri tuna, or just for sashimi.(raw fish slices)

Buy The Sushi Rice - Bamboo or Shiso Leaf, and Dipping Sauce

Sushi rice can be bought at the Asian market, and some grocery stores sell the short grain sushi rice also; so does Walmart.
The leafs, bamboo or shiso, can be bought at the Asian market also. The fish dipping sauce is only at Asian grocer, and wasabi paste is also. If you don't have dipping sauce for fish - unagi- you can use soy sauce. Wasabi horseradish is at local grocery store, it is not wasabi paste, but very similar and cheaper, and not as potent as wasabi paste.

Prepare The Tuna

This photo is about half of an actual block of sushi grade tuna
(saku tuna means a block of frozen sushi grade tuna).

Remove the tuna from packaging and place in covered container in the fridge to thaw. Thaw for a few hours before cutting your tuna, about 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Cut it just before it thaws completely; this makes it easier to cut into slices.


Use a sharp chef or santoku knife to make the slices;


cut it against the grain at a degree of 30(the grain is the lines that you see in the tuna).

cut it 1/4 of an inch,

cut the tuna by pulling the knife towards you in one slice

View types of tuna cuts here This is the proper cutting technique for sushi grade tuna, and this will also give you proper slices to use for: sushi tuna rolls, sashimi, nigiri, or tuna rice bowl.

Make The Sushi Rice

To learn how to make the sushi rice, View here

Make Your Sushi Bowl

Add the sushi rice to the bowl.
Put a slice of bamboo leaf on the rice, then put the sliced tuna on the bamboo leaf. Add at least 3 slices for your tuna sushi bowl.
If you don't have bamboo leaf or shiso leaf, you can use any leafy green like spinach which has similar shape to shiso leaf. Spinach leafs are at your local grocery store.

Add Dipping Sauce and Wasabi

Add a small dish of soy sauce or fish dipping sauce with your serving dish.

And, add a small dab of wasabi.

Nutrition

Nutritional Info:

Sushi Rice
Per 1/2 cup sushi rice:
0 sodium
1.5 grams sugar
1 gram fat
0 cholesterol
70 carbs
2 fibre
6 protein


Sushi Grade Tuna
45 sodium per 100 grams
22 protein per 100 grams



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