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Boiled shiitake mushrooms

6 dried shiitake mushrooms
2 tablespoons sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons (or more) soy sauce

 

Place dried shiitake in lukewarm water so that the mushrooms are completely submerged. Soak for 30 minutes. Remove shiitake. Place about 1/2 cup of the water and half the mushrooms in a pot and boil for 8 to 10 minutes until mushrooms are soft.

Add sugar and soy sauce and continue boiling over a low flame until the water nearly evaporates. Slice mushrooms after cooling.


Shrimp

120 grams unshelled shrimp
Pinch of salt
Dash of vinegar

 

Cook shrimp in water, adding salt and vinegar. Then remove shells and devein. If using prawns or other large shrimp, slice into 2 or 3 thin pieces. The cooked shrimp may be used as is or soaked in the vinegar dressing prepared to make sushi rice.

 

Beans

6-10 ingen (green beans) or snow peas

 

Boil in slightly salted water. Slice diagonally. Snow peas or other pod peas may be used as a substitute.

 

Nori

1/2 cup nori (dried seaweed sheets), cut into thin strips

 

Kamaboko

4-6 slices (around 1/4 inch thick) of kamaboko (fish cake)

 

Ikura

4 tablespoons ikura (salmon caviar)

 

 

 

Spread sushi rice on a plate so it's about 2/3-inch thick. Sprinkle nori evenly on top, adding shiitake and strips of eggs sheets. Then scatter shrimp, kamaboko, and ingen, piling ikura in a mound in the middle.

 

 

 

 "It's easy and fun!"
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