Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and today we are at Sozai Cooking School to learn how to make our own sushi!
and we're really excited so lets get going!
So hello hello Izy
you so much for having us. Thank you. Absolute pleasure to have you
I thought you said I love you then and I
thought I love you too!
So temari sushi. I put fish and the wasabi and rice
if you touch it with dry hands it's going to be really sticky so you wet your hands okay
and have rice
You must know how to make it don't you?
do you just scrunch it up?
that's right yeah like that and just twist it
Lets do it Joel!
So you do this one
Lia's really good at cooking. Am I? I think she is.
She's better than I am.
You make a temari sushi
Give it a squeeze. Just a twist, gently twist.
try not to squash it Lia
"try not to squash it Lia!"
That looks amazing!
lets choose my garnish
(Sarcastic) really amazing presentation thank you
Have you seen this before?
No
This is tofu
It is is deep fried and marinated
So this is perfect people like me who don't eat fish
Yeah! Sushi doesn't mean raw fish so I do make a
vegan sushi. Okay. With so many people in London now being vegan or vegetarian
not just London, kind of everywhere everybody's becoming a little bit more
aware of how much meat and fish they're consuming just for the planet's sake so
absolutely.
So sushi, you've stuffed it with sticky rice
You can put lots, especially to the corners as well
this is a parcel. It's like a pouch.
It's like a little Christmas present.
and thats it
oh I can do that
lets give it a go
right, oh it is sticky isn't it
Nice. It's really really nice very good yeah
well done!
So we are going to do hosomaki which is slim roll
one filling, using cucumber
maybe the fish version is tuna. Okey dokey
then it's ever so easy simple look but
actually quite tricky okay so shiny side down
a hand full of rice
about 80 grams, thats about 79
spreading the rice except one finger width
of a rice free zone on the top
okay this is so fun
quite therapeutic isn't it?
it reminds me of being a child when you do stuff with your hands all the time
and make mud pies!
not anymore?
umm occasionally!
I think your one is really good Joel. I think mine's a little bit too skinny
okay stop showing off guys
so you can scoop from underneath and it will travel really well
I'll do a tiny bit of wasabi yeah can I just say that is gonna blow your mind
No its not!
It is.
I don't think it is
Ok. What do you mean? Look how much (wasabi) he's put
Just clearing up his sinus
Lovely. So let's roll.
use your thumb up under the bamboo mat all of the fingers
on the fish or cucumber.
you lift your bamboo mat up and now
bamboo mat is meeting the end of rice and landing on nori
and with excess rice what we do is we cheat it
I just eat it
you need to lift the bamboo mat up one hand and with the other hand roll it over
Oh i'm very good at this! Shutup Joel
nice feeling isnt it?
Oh no
You made it quite, you've got a lot of power
see, Lia, yeah she's very heavy handed!
no I'm not you knew that would annoy me!
so is mine square or round?
Lia shape. Lia shape!
So this is my sushi i'm a vegetarian so I went for the vegetarian options which is avocado and peppers in the California roll
lovely colors yeah and then this is my futomaki with egg roll in
there and peppers and now I've got tofu stuffed with sticky rice
as well as this which is cucumber maki
and my inspiration was Izy
well done! beautiful so colourful
I've made some salmon hosomaki some salmon and vegetable futomaki and
avocado salmon inside out roll which is called uramaki
I cannot wait to eat this I'm a huge I'm a salmon lover and you'll
and you'll notice you'll that whilst mine and Izy's are perfectly round Lia's gone for the Lia shape sushi
yes so you can do round square or Lia shape so just bear that in mind
How did you do this triangle? Well Izi it's taken ten years
Well thanks so much for joining us today
don't forget guys if you want to book yourself a cooking class you can check
out the link in our description be sure to check out our Instagram and Twitter
page we've posted some lovely pictures of our sushi and of our amazing chef
Izy yeah thank you very much we're gonna eat this now!