Prawn Recipes For Shrimp Nigiri (ebi)

Prawn Recipes For Shrimp Nigiri (ebi)

Of the numerous prawn recipes, this page covers nigiri sushi with shrimp for the topping over sushi rice.

At your local Japanese market, you may find packaged shrimp (ebi) and ready to use for home made prawn recipes. If you cannot find ready prepared ebi, then you'll need to purchase the uncooked type and prepare them for this recipe.

Step by Step Prawn Recipes Nigiri Sushi

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Ebi Nigiri Zushi
Ingredients for 10 individual pieces:

*8-10 pieces of medium to large uncooked shrimp (preferably Tiger Prawns).
8-10 wooden skewers (kabob sticks will do).
1 teaspoon salt
Or if you can obtain cooked and prepared shrimp 1 package.
2 Cups (about 16 oz.) Seasoned cooked rice. Use the rest for rolls and other sushi.
1 teaspoon of wasabi for making the sushi and dipping with soy sauce.

*Usually sold without heads but if your local fish market has them with heads that is actually prefered indicates that it is very fresh.

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Prepare Shrimps (ebi)

1. Wash them in running water.

2. Place skewers into the cut end of the tail towards the tail fin if you are preparing tails without heads. Place the skewers into the tail from underneath and push toward the tail fin if you have whole body. This keeps the tails straight when boiling them. Otherwise they'd curl.

3. Add salt to a medium or large sauce pan of water and bring to boil.

4. Add shrimps into the pot and simmer till a few start to float and appear reddish orange.

5. Empty contents into a strainer or collander under running cold water to prevent further cooking.

6. Remove the skewers and cut off the heads.

7. Remove the shell and legs and tail fins.

8. Cut the under side of each long ways and open the halves.

9. In the cut, locate the vein which is a dark grey line and remove with fingers. Rinse after this step. Prepare to assemble the ebi with sushi rice.
Before you start, make sure you mixed 'tezu' in a medium sized bowl for your hands. Its so that the rice will not stick to your hands. Tezu is cold water in a hand fitting bowl with rice vinegar sprinkled into it (about 2 table spoons of rice vinegar per 1 cup of water)

Have your sushi rice cooking or prepared in advance. 

Prepare wasabi in a small dish. If you have the powder form follow directions on the label. Add COLD water to make into dough ball like thickness.

Have plates out so there is somewhere to place and serve the nigiri zushi.

Wet both hands with tezu mixture so rice won't stick to hands. Use before making each nigiri.

Take ebi in the left hand (if right handed).

Right hand index finger takes a bit of wasabi on the finger tip. Spread the wasabi in a downward motion.

 

Take an oval of rice in the right hand from the sushi rice tub and place it onto the wasabi side.

With the left thumb placed in the center of the rice oval, carefully turn over the sushi so the rice is now down and the shrimp is up.

With the right hand thumb and index finger, form the rice oval sides.

Place the shrimp nigiri zushi onto a small plate. Make another and place it next to it. This is the nigiri presentation. Typically served in pairs.

Prawn recipes note for this page:

Shrimp is sometimes called prawn. The term is used interchangeably on this page.

In Japanese the first letter of a following word is "voiced" meaning the s changes to z in sushi.

The word sushi by itself starts with letter s. But if followed by a word before it. Nigiri Zushi is proper.

But, for the sake of westerners familiar with sushi (and for search engines) I'll sometimes use "Nigiri Sushi".

Prawn, Acocado and Cucumber Sushi

Prawn, Acocado and Cucumber Sushi

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Ingredients

• Bamboo sushi mat, for prep
• 400g (14oz) Japanese short-grain sushi rice
• 2 tbsp sushi rice seasoning or seasoned rice vinegar
• 6-7 sheets of sushi nori (toasted and ready to use)
• 1tbsp wasabi (hot horseradish) paste
• Sushi ginger and Japanese soy sauce, for serving

For the filling:

• Half a cucumber, cut into thin strips along the whole length, discarding the seeds
• 1 ripe avocado, peeled, stoned and sliced lengthways
• 48 small, cooked prawns

Rinse the rice in cold water and place in a pan with 600ml (1 pint) cold water. Cover and bring to the boil quickly, then lower the heat and simmer for 10 mins. Turn off the heat and leave for 15 mins without taking off the lid.

1. Tip the rice into a bowl, add the sushi seasoning or rice vinegar and mix it in with a spatula.
2. Place a sheet of sushi nori on a bamboo mat. Spread 6-8 tbsp of sushi rice over. leaving a 1cm (½in) gap at the top and bottom. Dot a little wasabi paste along the rice on the nearest edge.
3. Put a piece of cucumber along the length, and next to it, strips of avocado, then 8 prawns.
4. Starting at the edge nearest you, roll up the nori into a tight cylinder, with the help of the mat. When you reach the top border, wet the nori, then finish rolling and hold it for a few seconds to help it stick. Cover with cling film and chill.
5. To serve, cut each roll into 6 pieces and serve with sushi ginger and soy sauce. Eat on the day you make them

Prawn Sushi

PRAWN SUSHI

 

Method

1. Keeping the shell intact pass a tooth pick through the flesh of the prawn so that it doesn't curl.
2. Boil these prawns in water for about 3-4 minnutes or till they change colour.
3. Drain the water and immediately pass the prawns through cold water.
4. Now remove the toothpicks and peel the shell off from the prawns, but leave the tail section of the shell.
5. Cut the prawn slightly and remove the vein from its back.
6. Make a deeper incersion on the prawn and spread the prawn making it look like a butterfly.
7. To prepare the marinade, mix the vinegar with water, salt, sugar, ajinomoto and mix it with the prawns, then marinate for 1 hour.
8. Beat the egg yolks lightly and remove about 21/2 tsps. of the egg yolks and keep aside.
9. Add water to the remaining yolks, mix well and cook over a medium flame till the yolks turn firm.
10. Drain the yolks and then mash them to a fine paste.
11. Mix the sugar, salt. lemon juice, ajinomoto and the rest of the egg yolk and beat well.
12. Pass this mixture through a fine sieve, then mix it with the mashed egg yolk and keep aside.
13. Divide the filling into 6 portions and then filling them into the 6 individual prawns.
14. Seal the edges but pressing them together and serve.

Temaki-sushi (Hand rolled sushi)

Temaki-sushi (Hand rolled sushi)

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Step 1. Cooking rice

Wash rice until water clear and cook,

Electric rice cooker is very convenient and gives stable results. This is available from approximately SEK 600:-. However, you can also cook it on normal electric stove. In that case, first with 2/6 power for 10 minuets, then 6/6 power until the water is gone, and let it sit for 15 minuets. Important thing is to avoid opening the lid of the pan during the process, and observe the final incubation time. When the water is gone, the boiling sound disappears, and this can be also confirmed by touching the pot with hard thing.

A sheet of Kombu is added together with rice and water, but this can be omitted when using powder vinegar.

Step 2. Adding vinegar and cooling

After the rice is cooked, then move it into a new bowl. Mix sushi vinegar either in the form of liquid or powder. The recipe for sushi vinegar is as following.

For 4 cup of rice (1 cup= 180 ml), use 1/2 cup of Japanese vinegar+ 5 Tbsp of sugar + 1 tsp of salt

In case of powder ("sushi-no-ko"), use 1 pack (75g) of it with 5 to 7 cup of rice.
Be careful not to destroy the rice grain. Let it cool down while mixing. Then, the rice is ready.

Step 3. Preparing Neta

For Temaki-sushi, usually Neta will be prepared like a stick of 1 cm x 1 cm x 10 cm. But this doesn't matter so far as it can be rolled.

Step 4. Rolling at table

First, take a Nori-sheet on your palm.
Second, spread rice and Wasabi on it.

Third, put Neta.

Then, roll it like a cone.

Dip it to soy sauce just before eating.
That's all!

Enjoy with Easy Temari Sushi

Enjoy making Temari Sushi so simple because it’s so easy, cute, and a little bit fancy.

Temari-zushi (or Temari-sushi) is a small ball-like sushi. (“temari” means “hand-ball”) It’s not really a seasonal food, but you can see a lot of temari-zushi in spring, around girl’s day (March 3rd) in Japan because temari-zushi is very colorful.

If you can’t find fish fresh enough to eat it raw, no need to be sad. You can use scrambled eggs, avocado, or shrimp, as shown below.

[How to make temari-zushi]
- salmon, tuna, shrimp, egg, avocado, etc…
- sushi rice

1. Make sushi rice! (see “How to make rice for sushi”) You have to use sushi rice for temari-zushi even if you aren’t using raw fish. Plain rice with food on top might taste very bland.

2. Put whatever you want on plastic wrap, put a little bit of sushi rice over, twist and close on the top and make a ball. That’s it!

Such as…

[Salmon]

Not the prettiest looking sashimi but once it's wrapped no one can tell.

[Tuna]

[Shrimp]

If you have shrimp prepared for sushi (see “How to prepare shrimp for sushi”)…

This is the other way to do it. You can make a small rice ball and put it on. It'll make it easier to make all temari-zushi the same size.

If you have regular curled up shrimp…

Slice the shrimp in the center

[Egg]

You can just make it with scrambled eggs.

Or if you have a little more time, you can make an egg sheet (see “How to make an egg sheet”), and cut it into strips.

[Avocado]

[Fish and avocado]

And you have plain temari-zushi! The one on a black plate was actually from a while ago. I was in a rush and didn’t really decorate them at the time.

But if you can, spend 5 minutes to put different kind of toppings on it to decorate it. You can put pretty much anything on it. It’s such a little amount you won’t really taste the topping that much, but it’ll make ordinary temari-zushi look like something you’ll see at a fancy restaurant. I used scallion and black lumpfish roe I got from IKEA but you can put seaweed cut out with a hole punch (or craft hold punch), carrot flower (see “How to make vegetable flowers”), a leaf of parsley, thinly sliced lemon, or even a tiny bit of wasabi or mustard or grated ginger! Using as many colors as you can.

For this plate, I mixed decorated ones and non-decorated ones.

Carrot flower as a topping, in Totoro temari-zushi bento

The key to make a pretty temari-zushi is to make it small and let the food cover the most of rice. Use just enough rice so that if you see it from the top, you won’t see the rice. Also try making each ball the same size. I’ve seen some very cute arrangements of temari-zushi, like have an egg temari-zushi in the middle, and surround it with salmon or tuna so the whole thing will look like a flower. I’d still dip it into soy sauce when I eat it, but if the rice is well seasoned (with vinegar), you won’t even need soy sauce

Halloween Salmon Temari Sushi

Happy Halloween!
If you are throwing a halloween party, either for the kids, or with your own friends, getting the food prepared is the first step to having a great evening. We made these amazing temari sushi balls and decorated them to look like halloween pumpkins, a perfect snack for your halloween party!

Temari sushi is a variety of sushi originating from Kyoto where circular balls of rice are laid with a topping of fish. Very similar to nigiri sushi, but shaped after temari balls, a traditional Japanese handcrafted item made from thread embroidered into patterned balls.

These temari sushi are made with salmon which gives them a just the right pumpkin look for halloween. Of course, you can make lots of other scary shapes to terrify your guests… and we guarantee that they will come back for more! :)

Ingredients

• • Japanese Rice
  • Sushi Vinegar – 1 Tbsp for 250g of Cooked Rice
  • Nori Seaweed
  • Wasabi Paste
  • Edamame
  • Soy Sauce – optional
  • Pickled Sushi Ginger – optional
  • Smoked Salmon
  • Plastic Wrap

How to prepare

• Before we make temari sushi, we need to prepare the sushi rice that will be used. You can follow ouronline rice recipe to find out how to make perfect sticky Japanese rice and then how to add sushi vinegar to turn that into sushi rice.
  If you really don’t want to spend too much time with rice preparation, you can try our microwaveable rice. Just mix one packet of cooked rice with 4 tablespoons of sushi rice vinegar.
• Once the rice is cooked, grab a sheet of plastic wrap and place a few thin slices of salmon in the centre. Then add a tablespoon of cold rice on the salmon and pull the wrap tight by twisting it to turn the rice in a ball.
• For the final touch, decorate your salmon with nori seaweed cut into halloween shapes such as jack o’ lanterns, witch’s hat, spiders or anything else suitable for halloween. We used an edamame bean for the stalk, but you can use wasabi for a similar effect!

Tips and information

• If you don’t like fish, you can use ingredients such as avocado or tamagoyaki omelette to decorate your temari sushi instead.
• Try and keep your hands a little wet so the rice won’t stick.
• Use your imagination to create scary nori seaweed halloween shapes. To make a spider, just cut a round piece of nori and draw the legs with some wasabi paste.

Three Surprising Health Benefits of Wasabi /Drei Überraschende Gesundheitliche Vorteile von Wasabi / Три удивительные преимущества для здоровья Wasabi

 

Three Surprising Health Benefits of Wasabi

 

Japanese chefs and cuisine experts have long known about the many wasabi health benefits that are afforded to them through some of the foods they eat. Wasabi is oftentimes served as a green paste that goes along with sushi, sashimi and other raw fish dishes. Made from a ground up root of a vegetable that is unique to Japan, wasabi is both a distinctive flavor ingredient and a wonderfully healthy component of a meal.
There are many misconceptions about wasabi. For instance, wasabi is not actually responsible for cleaning out your sinuses and opening your nasal passages; in fact, it actually does the opposite. Still, there are a few things about wasabi that are very helpful and which may come as a surprise. Read on for some of these health benefits.

1. Antimicrobial Effects
Wasabi may have developed as a way of flavoring sushi and other raw fish products because of its natural affects as an antimicrobial agent. Antimicrobial agents are responsible for eliminating bacteria. Because wasabi can eliminate bacteria through touch, it is oftentimes paired with raw fish. Raw fish is likely to have certain bacteria in it because it is not cooked before eating. Although wasabi does have these benefits, it is not a be all and end all for eliminating potential bacteria from raw foods; the only surefire way to do this is to cook those foods fresh.
2. Anti-inflammatory Effects
Although wasabi is actually known for causing inflammation in your nasal passageways which then leads in some cases to later congestion, wasabi paste as a whole is beneficial as an anti-inflammatory agent. Outside of yoru nose, mouth and related systems, wasabi can help to eliminate inflammation through other parts of your body. This will provide your body with a number of potential benefits and will make your infections, sores, injuries and other similar conditions which may bring about inflammation into less erious problems.


3. Anti Cancer Effects
Wasabi is linked with certain other foods like broccoli and cabbage, which contain a set of chemicals that help to promote liver health. This set of chemicals will enable the liver to better neutralize certain potentially toxic substances that move throughout the body. These substances can lead to cell mutations which may eventually contribute to cancer. Thus, by eating a wide mixture of wasabi laden foods, you stand to somewhat lower the risks of your developing cancer at some point later on in life.
All of these health benefits and others too can be found in wasabi paste. However, it’s important to be sure that the wasabi that you’re eating at a restaurant or that you’ve purchased in a grocery store is real. In many cases, restaurants and manufacturers of this paste will create a wasabi substitute from mustard, horseradish and food colorings. This does not provide the same set of nutritional benefits as real wasabi; these benefits are linked with the plant that wasabi is derived from instead. Make sure that you eat real wasabi if you’re looking for these benefits.

 

 

Три удивительные преимущества для здоровья Wasabi
Японские повара и кухни эксперты уже давно известно о многих васаби пользу для здоровья, с которым сталкиваются их через некоторые из продуктов, которые они едят. Васаби часто служили зеленая паста, которая идет вместе с суши, сашими и других сырьевых рыбных блюд. Изготовлен из нуля квадратный из овощ, который является уникальным для Японии, васаби и отличительные ингредиент аромата и полезных для здоровья компонентов еды.
Есть много неправильных представлений о васаби. Например, васаби на самом деле не отвечает за очистку пазух и открытие ваши носовые проходы, в самом деле, на самом деле все наоборот. Тем не менее, есть несколько вещей, о васаби, которые являются очень полезными, и которые могут быть сюрпризом. Читайте на некоторые из этих пользы для здоровья.
1. Противомикробным действием
Васаби могут быть разработаны как способ вкусовые суши и других сырьевых рыбных продуктов из-за своей природной влияет в качестве противомикробного агента. Антимикробные агенты несут ответственность за устранение бактерий. Потому что васаби может устранить бактерии через прикосновение, это часто в сочетании с сырой рыбой. Сырая рыба, скорее всего, есть некоторые бактерии в нем, потому что это не готовится до еды. Хотя васаби имеет этих преимуществ, это не быть всеми и закончить все для устранения потенциальных бактерий из сырых продуктов, единственный верный способ сделать это, чтобы готовить эти продукты свежими.
2. Противовоспалительное действие
Несмотря на то, васаби фактически известно, вызывая воспаление в носовых проходов, который затем приводит в некоторых случаях позже носа, васаби пасты в целом является полезным в качестве противовоспалительного средства. Вне Yoru нос, рот и связанных с ними систем, васаби может помочь снять воспаление через другие части вашего тела. Это позволит вашему телу с рядом потенциальных преимуществ и сделает ваш инфекции, язвы, травмы и другие подобные условия, которые могут привести к воспалению в менее erious проблем.
3. Анти эффекты рака
Wasabi связана с некоторыми другими продукты, как брокколи и капуста, которые содержат множество химических веществ, которые помогают продвигать здоровье печени. Этот набор химических веществ позволит печени лучше нейтрализовать определенные потенциально токсичных веществ, которые перемещаются по всему телу. Эти вещества могут привести к мутации клеток, которые могут в конечном счете способствуют развитию рака. Таким образом, при употреблении в пищу широкий смесь васаби продукты Ладена, вы стоите, чтобы несколько снизить риск развития рака ваши в какой-то момент позже в жизни.
Все эти преимущества для здоровья и другие тоже могут быть найдены в пасты васаби. Тем не менее, важно, чтобы убедиться, что васаби, что вы едите в ресторане или, что вы купили в продуктовом магазине является реальным. Во многих случаях, ресторанов и производителей этой пасте создаст васаби заменой от горчица, хрен и пищевые красители. Это не обеспечивает тот же набор питательных свойств, как реальный васаби; эти преимущества связаны с васаби растение, которое является производным от вместо. Убедитесь, что вы едите реальную васаби, если вы ищете на эти льготы.

 

 

Drei Überraschende Gesundheitliche Vorteile von Wasabi

Japanische Köche und Küche Experten haben lange über die vielen gesundheitlichen Vorteile, die Wasabi, um sie durch einige der Lebensmittel, die sie essen werden gewährt bekannt. Wasabi wird oft als grüne Paste, die einhergeht mit Sushi, Sashimi und andere rohe Fischgerichte serviert. Hergestellt aus einem Grund auf Wurzel eines pflanzlichen, die einzigartig für Japan ist, ist sowohl ein Wasabi unverwechselbaren Geschmack Zutaten und eine wunderbar gesunde Bestandteil einer Mahlzeit.
Es gibt viele Missverständnisse über Wasabi. Zum Beispiel ist Wasabi eigentlich nicht verantwortlich für die Reinigung Ihrer Nasennebenhöhlen und der Eröffnung Ihres Nasengänge, in der Tat, es tatsächlich bewirkt das Gegenteil. Dennoch gibt es ein paar Dinge, über Wasabi, die sehr hilfreich sind und welche als eine Überraschung. Lesen Sie weiter für einige dieser Nutzen für die Gesundheit.
1. Antimikrobielle Effekte
Wasabi kann als eine Art von Aromastoffen Sushi und anderen rohen Fisch-Produkte wegen seiner natürlichen wirkt als antimikrobieller Wirkstoff entwickelt haben. Antimikrobielle Mittel sind verantwortlich für die Eliminierung von Bakterien. Weil Wasabi können Bakterien durch Berührung zu beseitigen, ist es oft mit rohem Fisch gepaart. Roher Fisch ist wahrscheinlich bestimmte Bakterien in ihm haben, weil sie nicht vor dem Essen gekocht. Obwohl Wasabi macht diese Vorteile haben, ist es nicht eine all sein und am Ende alle für die Beseitigung potenziellen Bakterien aus Rohkost, die einzige todsichere Methode, um dies zu tun ist, um zu kochen diese Lebensmittel frisch.
2. Anti-entzündliche Effekte
Obwohl wasabi tatsächlich für eine Entzündung im nasalen Durchgänge, die dann führt in einigen Fällen zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt Überlastung bekannt ist wasabi als Ganzes fügen vorteilhaft als entzündungshemmendes Mittel. Außerhalb yoru Nase, Mund und verwandten Systemen können Wasabi helfen, die Entzündung durch andere Teile des Körpers zu beseitigen. Dies wird Ihren Körper mit einer Reihe potenzieller Vorteile bieten und wird Ihr Infektionen, Entzündungen, Verletzungen und andere ähnliche Bedingungen, die zu Entzündungen in weniger erious Probleme bringen kann machen.
3. Anti-Krebs-Wirkung
Wasabi ist mit bestimmten anderen Lebensmitteln wie Brokkoli und Kohl, die eine Reihe von Chemikalien, die die Gesundheit der Leber zu fördern helfen enthalten verknüpft. Dieser Satz von Chemikalien wird es der Leber besser zu neutralisieren bestimmte potentiell toxischen Substanzen, die im ganzen Körper zu bewegen. Diese Stoffe können zu Zellveränderungen, die schließlich zu Krebs führen kann beitragen. So durch den Verzehr einer breiten Mischung aus Wasabi beladenen Speisen, stehen Sie etwas senken Sie die Risiken Ihrer Entwicklung von Krebs irgendwann später im Leben.
All diese gesundheitlichen Vorteile und auch andere können in Wasabipaste gefunden werden. Allerdings ist es wichtig darauf zu achten, dass die Wasabi, dass Sie in einem Restaurant oder, dass Sie in einem Lebensmittelgeschäft gekauft essen real ist. In vielen Fällen werden Restaurants und Herstellern dieser Paste eine Wasabi-Ersatz aus Senf, Meerrettich und Lebensmittelfarben. Diese bietet nicht die gleiche Menge von ernährungsphysiologischen Vorteile als echte Wasabi; diese Vorteile sind mit der Anlage, dass Wasabi ab statt abgeleitet verknüpft. Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie echte Wasabi essen, wenn Sie für diese Leistungen suchen.