Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ‘gunkan’ maki sushi. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This invention enabled the use of soft loose ingredients as a sushi topping. Gunkan means warship and the name of the dish is derived from the shape. « Easy Chicken Char Siu and Tomato Tsukemen Recipe (Japanese-style Chicken Chashu and Ramen Noodles with Tomato Dipping Sauce) Gunkan Maki - The Battleship Wrapped in Seaweed. To appreciate the nature of gunkan sushi invariably referred to as gunkan maki, it helps to dig a little deeper to understand what maki is.
‘Gunkan’ Maki Sushi is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. ‘Gunkan’ Maki Sushi is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook ‘gunkan’ maki sushi using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make ‘Gunkan’ Maki Sushi:
- Take Sushi Rice
- Get Nori
- Prepare Your Favourite Toppings
- Make ready <Topping Suggestions>
- Prepare Fresh Sashimi Slices, Wasabi
- Take Ikura (Salmon Roe), Tobiko (Flying Fish Roe)
- Get Crab Meat, Prawns
- Prepare Teriyaki Chicken, Inari-zushi Wrappers
- Get Tuna & Mayonnaise
- Take Scrambled Egg, Boiled Egg & Mayonnaise
- Make ready Avocado, Cucumber, Corn
It is a big fun to make them at home. By the way, 'Gunkan' means 'Battleship'. The Sushi rice wrapped with Nori has a resemblance to the battleship, and that's the origin of its name. Gunkan maki, also known as Battleship maki, is a common, more traditional type of sushi.
Instructions to make ‘Gunkan’ Maki Sushi:
- Cook Sushi Rice. Sushi rice should be cool or room temperature. *Find my 'Sushi Rice' recipe at https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/1467168-sushi-rice
- Prepare toppings. - *Today I made four different toppings, ‘Smoked Salmon & Avocado’, ‘Teriyaki Chicken’, ‘Nattō & Cucumber with Spring Onion’ and ‘Canned Tuna & Mayonnaise with Spring Onion’
- Cut a sheet Sushi Nori into 6 strips. Nori sheet is usually 20cm long. When you cut it into 6 strips, each strip would be 3.3cm in width. Cut each strip to make 15-16cm long. Offcuts can be used for topping or other dishes.
- Make small oblong Sushi Rice balls. Usually about 20g of rice is formed into a ball, and that’s quite small. Flatten or hollow the top. - *Note: You may wish to purchase Sushi Moulds, but ice cube tray could be an alternative tool to make many balls quickly.
- Wrap each ball with a Nori strip with the smooth side out, place toppings on top.
It is topped with ikura (fish eggs, larger than tobiko, which is what was used on the Boston Roll), so it is very salty. The roe are the delicious and surprisingly colourful eggs of these tasty fish. Maki (sushi roll) Temaki (hand roll) Gunkan Sushi: Introduction: Maki refers to sushi rice and fillings (fish, seafood, meat, or veggies) wrapped inside a Nori sheet. Temaki contains all the ingredients used in maki, but it is folded in a cone shape and eaten as one big sushi Gunkan Sushi 軍艦寿司. Also called Gunkan Maki, Gunkan Sushi is another form of nigirizushi.
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