Sushi Made Easy

Most people think its hard to make sushi, but actually, it's very easy! There is minimal cooking involved and you can get as creative as you want.  You can put anything you like in a sushi roll. I like snow crab legs, fried soft shell crabs, shrimp, avocado, cucumber, and asparagus.  I've also used mango and kiwi.  Really, anything you think is tasty will do.

First, prep all of your ingredients while you are making the sushi rice.  Slice the cucumbers and avocado.  Steam and crack your snow crab legs.  Fry the soft shell crab.  Set all these items a side.  

To make sushi rice, bring 2 cups of water to a boil.  Add 1 cup of sushi rice, cover and cook for 20 minutes.  Remove from heat and leave covered until the water is absorbed.  Make certain that you use sushi rice.  It sticks together better than any other rice and helps hold the sushi roll together.  There's a reason it's called sushi rice.

Lay the seaweed sheet out on parchment paper.  Spread a thin layer of rice evenly across half of the seaweed.  

In a neat pile, lay out a strip of ingredients you are filling your roll with.  Start with the rice end and roll up the seaweed tightly.  At the end of the seaweed, run your slightly moist finger over it to seal the end and press it until it no longer pops open.  Slice inch and a half to two inch slices and enjoy!