Main materials for making sushi

In addition to strong soy sauce and green mustard, sushi also has a more important seasoning - vinegar ginger. When eating sushi, add a piece of vinegar ginger, which not only helps to add flavor, but also makes sushi more fresh and delicious.

Main ingredients

The necessary ingredient for sushi is rice. Authentic Japanese sushi is made of small, fat and slightly sweet Japanese pearl rice. After the rice is cooked, add an appropriate amount of sushi vinegar, sugar, salt and other seasoning, and use it to make sushi after cooling.

Sushi Nori: full-size (19 * 21cm roasted seaweed, such as: 100 sheets of sushi nori, Edo flavor, etc.), half-cut (as the name implies, it is 1/2 the size of full-size seaweed generally used for hand-rolled sushi)


Sashimi: salmon (salmon), tuna (tuna, tuna), seriola (yellow tail fish), snapper, bonito, mackerel


All kinds of seafood: squid (cuttlefish), octopus, shrimp, eel, roe, sea urchin, Arctic shellfish and other shellfish


Fruit and vegetables: pickled radish, pickled plum, natto, avocado (avocado), cucumber (cucumber), fried tofu


Red meat: beef, horse meat, ham


Other: fried eggs (Yan Lie), raw quail eggs,wasabi,
sushi ginger etc.

Auxiliary materials include:


Sushi sauce, horseradish (mustard/wasabi), purple ginger (gari), perilla leaf (shiso), mirin (mirin, boiled rice wine)


Sushi vinegar (the material is not easy to buy and can be made by yourself. Method: put an appropriate amount of white vinegar in a bowl, add 1/3 of white sugar in white vinegar, put an appropriate amount of edible salt, stir it a little, and then pour it into the pot, boil it slowly over a low heat until there are small bubbles. Note that you should keep stirring when boiling, do not boil it, and use it after cooling)