How to Cook Rice for Rolls

Currently, more and more popularity around the world is getting such a dish of Japanese cuisine as rolls. Of course, you can just buy them in a restaurant, but it's much cheaper and better to make them at home on your own.

After all, preparing rolls at home is a very exciting activity.

Now you can find a huge number of recipes for cooking rolls. They are prepared from various seafood and rice.

Perhaps, the most significant ingredient here is rice. So the taste of rolls directly depends on whether you have chosen the quality rice and whether it was cooked correctly.

And here the question arises: "How to cook rice for rolls correctly?" This is exactly what our article will be about.

Before you cook rice for rolls, you need to find out what is required for this.

So, to prepare this rice you will need the following ingredients:

• 250 ml of round rice;
• 50 ml of rice or any other fruit vinegar;
• 1 tablespoon of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon of table salt.

Before you start cooking rice, you need to thoroughly wash it, at least three times, so that a cloudy residue disappears. After that, you need to throw it back in a colander and drain all the liquid. For the cooking, you need to prepare an unglazed pot (or saucepan) having a thick bottom. Just in it you can wash rice for rolls. But most importantly, check that there is no water left inside.

So, here, actually the recipe of rice for rolls:

Step one.

It is necessary to lay out rice for rolls on a paper towel or on a napkin and additionally dry it for about an hour.

Step two.

After one hour you will need to pour about 1.5 liters of water into the saucepan, put rice croup and put it on medium heat on a stove. At the same time, the saucepan must be closed with a lid.

Step three.

How much to cook rice for rolls? Just a short while, as soon as the boiling begins in the saucepan, you need to reduce the heat on the stove to a very slow one and cook the rice for about 13-15 minutes. The Japanese often add when cooking a kombu - dried brown alga, which gives the rice for the rolls a peculiar flavor. But it is rather difficult to find in our stores, so you can do without it.

Step Four.

Then remove the stewpan from the stove without opening the lid, and let the rice steep for about 10-15 minutes.

Step five.

And at this time in a cup, mix the sugar, salt and vinegar.

Step Six.

After that you need to pour the resulting marinade rice. Do not disturb it, just turn it with your shoulder blade.

Step Seven.

In the end, you need to give the rice a little cool down, and then you can start directly to prepare the rolls.

Well, that's basically all.

To get the best result, you can use a special electric rice cooker. But a microwave oven for cooking rice for rolls is absolutely not suitable. Well, at least, the creators of the roll - the Japanese do not accept it.

Yes, and it is worth noting that instead of our marinade, Japanese chefs prepare avaseuse, which, in principle, is similar to it, with only one difference - except vinegar, granulated sugar and salt, another half liter of sake is added to it.

As you can see, you can prepare rice for rolls at home, following advice on how to cook rice for rolls. You will not only save your money considerably. But also get great pleasure! And in this we are 100% sure. The main thing is only to give only an hour, so that the finished result brings maximum pleasure. Rolls, made by own hands have a special taste, taste of own masterpiece.

We think that now you have learned everything you need about how to cook rice for rolls. Good luck to you, our dear cooks! We wish your rolls to turn out great and that your relatives and friends appreciate them!