We finally managed to finish the recipe for the ingeniously delicious sushi pandas – exclusively for you, because we love you, dear blog-readers. Our time flies in about the same speed as the pandas are eaten. Mjom mjom and gone they are. And you know, in this flat, there is a very special species of small “time-eaters”, lurking everywhere in all the small corners, just waiting for you to get too close to them. Then they lull you in and become fatter and fatter, because they indulge your time for breakfast, as a snack and at any time of the remaining day. That’s what it looks like.
How was the panda born?
Good question. After initial dozens of disastrous attempts to cook sushi rice, all of which ended with us having a great weapon against possible burglars, we finally made it and the rice becomes fantastically delicious every single time. What an achievement. Numerous sushi evenings followed, where we ended up being as round as those cutie pandas. On one of the evenings, we feverishly pondered how we could make the whole thing more attractive to the blog. “It just has to have eyes and look cuddly and everyone is going to be addicted.” This was the final sentence: the idea for the panda was born. After this conversation, it didn’t take long before THE panda really landed in front of the lens as the new “shooting star”. And now on your screen.
Fishers Fritz fishes fresh fish.
The fish is raw. Yes. It has to be. “Can you also take smoked fish? Cooked one? I don’t want to eat it raw.” No, no, no. If you take the very best quality, we promise you that you will not regret having the taste of fresh fish in your mouth. With everything else, it is just terrible, so, noooooo, please don’t. You can, if you don’t like it at all, just prepare vegetarian pandas. They taste just as delicious as the fishy one.
But if you are now one of those fish lovers like us, it must be “sushi quality”, that means, the fish is caught and frozen immediately afterwards for at least one day and at at least -20°C, so that any parasites are safely killed. In addition, but this is now personal preference: wild catch or as organic-animal-friendly etc. as possible. Anything else doesn’t enter our home and kitchen. And you can definitiely taste it.
The neverending recipe.
Yes, this recipe looks eternal. But: we had to describe it well to make the pandas come to life in your kitchen. Don’t be deterred by it, it’s really not that difficult. You just need a pinch of good nerves and patience. And a carefully working hand, that’s half the rent.
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Panda Sushi.
Equipment
- donut-mold
- Mandoline (zum Schneiden ultradünner Scheibchen)
- Klarsichtfolie
- sieve
Ingredients
Reis
- 180 g sushi rice
- 230 ml water
- 4 tbsp. rice vinegar =30g
- 12 g sugar
- 7 g salt
Belag
- 100 g salmon/ tuna in sushi quality
- 1/4 mango
- 1/4 cucumber
- 2 radishes
- 1/2 avocado
- 1 algae sheet for eyes and ears
- 1 big branch of dill
Instructions
Der Weg zum perfekten Reis.
- First, you have to weigh the rice thorougly, put it in a sieve and wash under running water until the water remains clear even after contact with the rice. This can take a few minutes. Stir carefully with your hand through the rice, but delicately, the rice is a sensitive companion.
- Then put the water and rice together in a saucepan, put the lid on top and let it rest for 30 minutes.
- Then you put high heat to cook the rice with the lid closed, just so that the water starts forming bubbles. As soon as this is the case, turn the heat down to a small flame and set the stopwatch to 11 minutes. This is a crucial part.
- After the end of the cooking period, your rice should now have the perfect consistency. Turn off the heat, place a clean kitchen towel between the lid and the pot, close the lid again and give the rice 10 minutes to rest.
- Meanwhile, put the vinegar, sugar and salt in a small saucepan and simmer gently until salt and sugar have dissolved. Set aside.
- After the rest period, you carefully mix the rice vinegar mixture under the rice. Then you can put the rice in a large bowl and let it cool down in the fridge.
Panda Sushi (6 pieces)
- Cut avocado and mango into elongated, thin strips. Cut the cucumber and also the radishes with the mandolin, also as thin as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to prepare the pandas.
- Cut the salmon/tuna into thin (approx. 2mm ) slices with a sharp knife.
- Cut out the eyes and ears from the algae leaf. Good tip: cut one oval eye pattern, then cut 4 seaweed squares with just enough space for your sample eye. Then cut your eyes following the sample quite accurately. Finito is another batch of eyes. You need a total of 12 eyes/ears). Another tip: my ears are halved "eyes”.
- Remove the cooled rice from the fridge.
- Lay out a shape on your doughnut mold with a piece of transparent foil (important, otherwise the stuff sticks in there forever – experience is speaking here). Now, put salmon, cucumbers, avocado, radish slices, etc. into the mold in a way that resembles a fish scale pattern. The ends of cucumber and co. can each stand out a little over the edge.When you're done, you fill the rest with rice, you'll have to squeeze it in nicely, otherwise your panda won't hold together. Fold the overcoming ends of your toppings over the rice to cover it on the subsequent bottom. This gives it more stability.In the picture you can see again what I mean by "fish scale pattern". The layers must overlap.
- For the ears, you form a small rice ball, push it flat on one side and attach it to the head.
- Now, all that is missing is the eyes and the black ears, which you simply put in the right place. The eyes are completed with a halved grain of rice as a white "dots".
- Finally, you lift the panda out of shape with a careful pull on the transparent foil on opposite sides. As soon as he is outside of the mold, you have to support it with your hand, otherwise it breaks quite quickly. Put straight on a plate.
- Serve with wasabi and soy sauce.
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