Okay y’all — here is the post you have all been waiting for! Today I am going to show you how EASY it is to make your own sushi. Once you get your sushi rice made and your eel sauce, it is basically just putting it all together.

To start off with, you will need Nori Sheets. I got mine right on Amazon because I couldn’t find them in the store. A huge pack is like $10 and will last you forever.

Assemble all of your ingredients around you.

I used cream cheese, baked chicken cut into thin strips, and asparagus for each of my sushi rolls. I told you that I don’t do raw sushi, so this is what goes in mine. Be sure to have your rice close too.

Start with your Nori Sheet. All that it is — is a seaweed sheet. They taste really good and not what you would expect at all.

Be sure to wrap your sushi roller in plastic wrap. This will keep the roll or your sushi rice from sticking to it.

Take your hands and run them under warm water. This will keep the rice from sticking to your hands. The thing about sushi rice? It sticks to everything!

Then place some of the rice on the Nori Sheet and spread it all around.

Once you get your rice all over the nori sheet, then take your inside food (for me, this is the cream cheese, chicken and asparagus) and place them on one end of the nori sheet.

Then from this point, you just roll it up as tight as you can get it. It should look something like this while you are rolling —

Once you get it rolled, remove the roller and you will have to make sure you roll it all the way back up again (that is normal if it doesn’t hold the first time. You are just trying to mold it together. )

Take your roller and squeeze the sushi roll to make sure it is tight and holding together. Once you finish that, your rolls should like like this —

Now – from this point, you can slice them and eat using the drizzle of the eel sauce, but my daughter and I love the tempura rolls they serve at our favorite Thai restaurant, so that is what we made. That crunchy outer texture adds the most amazing flavor.

Create a tempura batter using the following ingredients —

How to Make Your Own Sushi

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Ingredients

• Nori Sheets
• Tempura Batter
• Sushi Rice
• Baked Chicken cut into strips
• asparagus
• Cream Cheese
• Eel Sauce

Instructions

1. Start with your Nori Sheet. Lay it out onto your sushi roller. Be sure to wrap your sushi roller in plastic wrap. This will keep the roll or your sushi rice from sticking to it.
2. Take your hands and run them under warm water. This will keep the rice from sticking to your hands. Then place some of the rice on the Nori Sheet and spread it all around.
3. Once you get your rice all over the nori sheet, then take your inside food (for me, this is the cream cheese, chicken and asparagus) and place them on one end of the nori sheet.
4. Then from this point, you just roll it up as tight as you can get it.
5. Once you get it rolled, remove the roller and you will have to make sure you roll it all the way back up again (that is normal if it doesn't hold the first time. You are just trying to mold it together. )
6. Take your roller and squeeze the sushi roll to make sure it is tight and holding together.
7. Now - from this point, you can slice them and eat using the drizzle of the eel sauce, but my daughter and I love the tempura rolls they serve at our favorite Thai restaurant, so that is what we made. That crunchy outer texture adds the most amazing flavor.
8. Create a tempura batter using the following ingredients --
9. cup of flour
10. tablespoon cornstarch
11. /2 cups of seltzer water
12. Salt
13. Combine all those ingredients together. Then preheat a skillet on medium high on the oven with about 1 1/2" of canola oil in the bottom. Once it has reached the right temperature, you are going to dip and roll your sushi roll and then drop in the oil for it to get a quick fry.
14. Once one side is slightly browned, roll it over so that each side gets brown. Once all sides are browned, remove from oil onto a plate and finish cooking your rolls.
15. Get a glass of warm water and dip your knife into the water before slicing your rolls. This keeps your rice from sticking to the knife and will stay in the sushi roll.
16. Now -- serve with your delicious homemade eel sauce and enjoy your very own homemade sushi dinner.