Sushi is one of the most successful traditional Japanese cuisine dishes, due to its variations and adaptability to other palates. Today we will give you some fun and easy sushi recipes that you can make as a family, and that not all have raw fish.
Getting to get a good sushi is not easy, you have to give the rice the exact point, but practicing to get it is a lot of fun. So get to work with these nutritious recipes which you can leave lists in the fridge and that now in summer they are very practical.
At what age can children eat sushi?
There is currently some debate about the age at which children should start eating sushi. Sushi is a very healthy food of Japanese origin, composed of vegetables, rice, nori seaweed and raw fish, most of the time tuna, salmon, or sea bass. Because of raw fish, it is recommended to be careful for children and pregnant women.
In the sushi recipes that we propose you you can swap raw fish for cooked fish, or just leave it with vegetables, nori seaweed and rice. Yes we know, it is not sushi, and it does not taste the same, but this way you will avoid possible bacteria that are in raw fish. Be careful, don't forget to wash the vegetables well!
However, children must be offered to eat everything. Raw fish, if it has been frozen before, is free of the famous annisaki. Many nutritionists agree that the best age for children to start eating raw fish is from the 12 years. Put in small portions first and see how she tolerates them.
Sushi recipes in the purest Japanese style
One of the advantages of cooking with our children is the bond they create with food. They recognize the value of preparing dishes and ingredients in their original state. First trick to make good sushi: you have to wash the rice well before cooking. This is how you remove the starch. Short, round grain rice is best.
In this recipe We will use tuna, salmon, cucumber and celery cut into sticks. To build any roll we will have to spread a sheet of moistened nori seaweed and with the shiny part facing down, on the mat, which is called makisu. Sometimes, they are not very hygienic, so we recommend the silicone ones or put a transparent film.
And now ask your son to help you spread the rice on the seaweed. Get your hands wet from time to time so it doesn't stick to you. Put a little tuna or salmon in the center, and put a little cucumber and celery next to it. Now comes the practice, it is about wrapping tightly with the help of the mat. To cut the roll into slices you have to wet the knife well with cold water.
Innovative sushi recipes
We have already commented that sushi is associated with fish and seafood, but also you can put boiled egg, avocado, marinated or smoked fish, turkey slices and almost anything that you or your children can think of. Give her the initiative to see what ingredients he or she uses in their sushi.
This sushi recipe has crab sticks, cucumber, avocado, nori seaweed sheets and if you want a little mayonnaise, to make it easier for the child to roll it up. When the rice is cold, if it has been boiled, it must be stretched on a sheet of nori seaweed, placed on the makisu. Squash some rice with wet fingers What a child resists this! The layer of rice should be less than 1 centimeter and a few pieces of nori should show through the rice.
Now we put the filling that we recommend, the crab sticks, cucumber and avocadoe, and spread some mayonnaise on them. Very little mayonnaise. And now to roll up, following the instructions we gave you above. Trick to cut it: first you cut half, from that half the other half and so on. Always with a sharp knife and wet in cold water.