[totte]

Hi, hopefully this is the right part of the forum for this kind of question. I just feel the need to know, love this kind of information when it comes to food and cooking.

I'm not very good at Sushi, I've only tried making it once. However, my mum made Sushi this weekend with some friend and she mention they just boil the rise and sliced the salmon raw with no preps.

So I'm wondering, don't you usually put vinegar in the rice? Isn't that to prevent health hazards as the vinegar cooks the salmon to some degree?

 

[totte]

Vinigared rice is the sushi!

Ye, but it is there for any other reason than the taste?

 

[totte]

Hi Totte.....The word Sushi means "sour rice"

Sushi rice is made by rinsing and soaking the rice, then cooking on low to allow it to absorb the water slowly.

A mixture of rice wine vinegar, Sake, and/or Mirin (Sweet rice wine), and sugar are heated to dissolve the sugar, then added to the already cooked rice and fluffed.

Sushi rice with fish is called "Nigiri Sushi)

Fish alone is called Sashimi

The fish is not "cooked" or made safe by the vinegar.

The kind of answer I was looking for, great information! Thanks!