Here is how I make the ideal sushi rice. You may either eat this by itself or make it into your preferred sushi roll with your preferred components. I use avocado slices, cucumber slices, and carrot strips. To suit your preferences, you can change the amount of vinegar in this recipe.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 25 mins |
| Servings: | 15 |
| Yield: | 5 cups |
Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked glutinous white rice (sushi rice)
- 3 cups water
- ½ cup rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
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- Rinse the rice in a strainer or colander under cold running water until the water runs clear.
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- Combine rice and water in a saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until rice is tender and all water has been absorbed, about 20 minutes. Remove from stove and set aside until cool enough to handle.
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- Meanwhile, combine rice vinegar, oil, sugar, and salt in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the sugar has dissolved. Allow to cool, then stir into the cooked rice. While mixture will appear very wet at first, keep stirring and rice will dry as it cools.
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Reviews
If I could put a munis 3 I would! This was, without a doubt the WORST sushi rice recipe I could have ever made. I have made sushi for years and thought to change it up with this rice recipe. Well, what a mistake that was. It was SO SLOPPY and didn’t hold up for the rolls I made. I made to recipe and I found that I wasted the money I spent on the tuna and salmon, not to talk about the time spent making it. I have never cried over a recipe I have made or tried, but I did with this one. This REALLY SUCKED!
Recipe needs to half the amount of vinegar and use 3x less sugar.
Have made this twice now and I absolutely love it. I just use my 3 cup rice cooker and pour the vinegar mix over the cooked rice while mixing with a rice paddle rather than making it on the stove and it turns out well. As an American who lived 3 years in Japan, I don’t know what these people are talking about when they say it’s “too sweet and vinegary [the su in sushi literally means vinegar]” as it just tastes like sushi rice. I usually use this product called “sushi no ko” which is a powdered vinegar you just mix into cooked rice, but I’m going to save money and use this from now on.
Clearly per comments people didn’t know to COOL RICE POST COOKING- Same w pasta and gnocchi, always since with cool water. I do agree too much sugar, rice vinegar is sweet enough, if using apple cider or white vinegar yes u need more sugar, rice sugar does it all by itself tho
Using long grain rice, washed it 7 times and then used a rice cooker. I adjusted the sugar and vinegar to 1/3, not 1/2. It’s much better in taste. For those complaining: no one tells you to stick 100% with the recipe. Burned rice? Overcooked? That’s only you to blame. Use a fingertip style and cook the rice on medium heat (induction: 5) for 12 minutes. Don’t use the overpriced “sushi” rice. The only difference in that is, the so called “sushi” rice has only more starch. Use a classic long grain rice instead.
Absolutely useless recipe. Oil prevents the rice from sticking together. All you can taste is vinegar and sugar.
Too much sugar, too much vinegar, do not add oil. Super sweet and does not become sticky. Find a different recipe, this one is trash
Way too sweet. Pretty bad. I would look for another recipe.
Way too much vinegar and sugar
Find another recipe. The proportions here are simply not accurate.
This is the weirdest rice I have ever made. I have never made sushi rice before and decided I wanted to try it tonight. I thought I had rice vinegar hidden away, but my pantry came up short. Quick google search told me to go with apple cider vinegar. I didn’t think anything of the portions as I’m new to this, so I happily put together the vinegar and the large amount of sugar in my pan to melt. SO, Apparently the smell of the apple cider vinegar gets stronger when heated. As My daughter so nicely let me know as she came into the kitchen dry heaving and gaging at the smell. In the end the rice was not what I’m used to and extremely sweet. I will be making more rice to add to it in hopes to even out the flavor.
Too sweet. It was my first time making Sushi rice and when I tasted it it didn’t seem right so I checked out how much sugar other recipes called for. It’s usually only a couple of tablespoons and this one uses 1/4 cup. I’m disappointed that I used most of the sushi rice I bought and will have to try again with a different recipe.
Perfect sushi/ sticky rice recipe. Just remember to put the rice into a non-stick dish or dish lined with baking paper before adding the vinegar mixture. It sticks like crazy otherwise!
Family loved it. Easy to follow. Delicious!
terrible recipe, 20 minutes was way too long. I burned my rice.
Threw it out. It was insanely sweet, and way to much vinegar. I thought that the amounts sounded way wrong, but I thought I’d follow the instructions. Worst rice I’ve ever eaten.
This recipe is outrageous. The person who made this has obviously never tasted their recipe, because it is inedible. For anyone trying to make this, I wouls suggest 1 tbsp of sugar and 1/4 cup of vinegar for this amount of rice.
1/4 cup sugar is an insane amount for 2 cups of rice. Made this when I first started making sushi and didn’t know better. Don’t do it!!
HORRIBLE. Waaaay too much vinegar and sugar. I had to throw out a whole batch of rice and remake it right before a sushi party. What a waste
This was an excellent recipe, easy to follow and came out great, thank u!
It did thicken as it cooled… into a gloopy mess. Had to remake the rice…