Ehoumaki: Lucky Fat Sushi Rolls with Marinated Salmon and Cucumber. Start marinating the salmon the day before you plan to eat it in the soy sauce and mirin. Cut the cucumber in half lengthwise. Cook the rice with konbu seaweed and sake in the water.

Most of the traditional rituals revolve around Ehoumaki is a special sushi roll that Japanese eat for celebrating Setsubun. It is at the beginning of Spring, on the third of February every year. I feel like we just celebrated New year, but Setsubun is almost upon us! You can have Ehoumaki: Lucky Fat Sushi Rolls with Marinated Salmon and Cucumber using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ehoumaki: Lucky Fat Sushi Rolls with Marinated Salmon and Cucumber

You need of For the marinated salmon:.
Prepare 100 grams of Sashimi grade salmon.
Prepare 2 tbsp of Soy sauce.
It's 2 tbsp of Mirin.
It's 1 of Cucumber.
You need of The sushi rice:.
You need 360 ml of Uncooked white rice.
It's 10 cm of Kombu.
It's 1 tbsp of Sake.
Prepare of Sushi vinegar:.
You need 6 tbsp of Vinegar.
You need 1 1/2 tbsp of Sugar.
It's 1 tsp of Salt.

So, Let's roll Ehoumaki flawlessly to bring fortune and good luck! Ehoumaki: Lucky Fat Sushi Rolls with Marinated Salmon and Cucumb. I make sushi rice a lot. You can prepare sushi rolls with all kinds of ingredients with it, so it's fun!

Ehoumaki: Lucky Fat Sushi Rolls with Marinated Salmon and Cucumber instructions

Start marinating the salmon the day before you plan to eat it in the soy sauce and mirin..
Cut the cucumber in half lengthwise..
Cook the rice with konbu seaweed and sake in the water. When it's cooked, wait for 10 minutes, then take out the konbu seaweed..
Combine the sushi vinegar ingredients and dissolve the sugar..
Take the cooked rice out of the rice cooker..
Pour the sushi vinegar over the rice and mix it in using a cutting motion. Fan with a fan or similar to cool it as you mix..
Put a sheet of nori seaweed on a sushi mat..
Spread the rice on the nori seaweed leaving a 2-3 cm gap on the far side and a 1 cm gap on the near side. Add the cucumber..
Add the marinated salmon as shown in the photo..
Start rolling up with both hands to enclose the fillings. Do this in one go, decisively. Press the roll over the sushi mat to neaten and firm it up..
Done!!.
When cutting the rolls, wipe the blade of the knife between each cut. You can also try putting vinegar on the blade, too..

Make the rolls in one go without hesitating. Basically, fortune rolls are just big fat sushi rolls eaten at this special time of year. For those who are new to sushi rolls, they are a combination of special ingredients, put in rice, wrapped in seaweed. Fortune rolls are usually fatter than standard rolled sushi. The sushi rolls usually contain seven ingredients, as seven is a lucky number.