Sushi Bake -- Baked SUSHI?

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if you'd like to try simple health out for free click the link down below or head over to simplehealth.com emmy or use the code emmy at checkout big thanks to simple health for their continued support and for allowing me to make better videos for you guys now today i'm going to be making a recipe called sushi bake it's baked sushi have you ever heard of such a thing i have not it was just recently brought to my attention by several of my beautiful lovelies including miko mendoza and apparently t

his is really popular in the philippines it's become very very trendy although i've read it's also popular in hawaii as well essentially it's a take on sushi it's taking sushi ingredients the rice and all the toppings and pressing it into a casserole dish and baking it just so the top gets kind of warmed up and then you serve it in a casserole dish along with nori instead of making individual handmade maki sushi rolls and cutting it up so this is technically not real sushi there's no raw fish or

raw seafood in this whatsoever it's not rolled in any kind of way it's sushi bake so let's go ahead and make it big thanks to all of my beautiful lovelies for reaching out and sending me this suggestion so the first thing we need to do is to prepare our sushi rice now in previous videos i've talked about my beloved jojirushi rice cooker which i've had for years about 12 13 years now love it it's a champ i almost use it every single day and it never fails me it cooks perfect rice now zojurushi a

merica recently sent me this beauty this is the jojirushi pressure ih it is the np-nwc10 model and it's a lot fancier than my last rice cooker i still have my original rice cooker i don't have any plans of getting rid of it i love that machine but now i have two so i used this to prepare the sushi rice so i used the measuring cup that was provided with the rice cooker and i measured out three even scoops and i washed it three times rinsed it under cool water drained it with each subsequent washi

ng the water gets clearer and clearer now this is an important step my mom taught me how to wash rice when i was really little we want to remove the excess starch on the rice we're going to fill it to the proper level so we're going to use the sushi rice or the sweet rice increments and measure out three cups and then we're going to place it into our cooker and then set the mode to sushi rice and press start [Music] a rice cooker that sings okay so now it just beeped because it's now going to ke

ep it warm just going to fluff it and now we're going to prepare the seasoning for the sushi rice so i just got some rice wine vinegar and i just realized that i got the one that's pre-seasoned typically i grab the unseasoned one so this one has sugar in it already so if you get the regular which i usually get you would take equal parts of vinegar to sugar so three tablespoons of rice wine vinegar to three tablespoons of sugar so since this is pre-seasoned i'm just gonna taste this and then adju

st for seasoning as i go so three tablespoons of that yeah it's pretty sweet and salty already i'm gonna give it a good pinch of salt one teaspoon of sugar and stir that up dissolve all of that and add our rice now real sushi masters would do this in a bamboo bowl and they would fan this but i am no master by any means and be gentle with your rice you don't want to mush it around sushi rice is a little bit different than say jasmine rice or just long grain rice it's shorter grain so it's sticky

and that's important both for texture has a great kind of chew to it and also for sticking because sushi rice is molded and you need that stickiness otherwise it won't create that shape so i found several recipes on how to make sushi bake and i'm basing mine on pepper.ph's recipe and i'll put a link down to the blog down below so the topping we're going to be using imitation crab so what is imitation crab imitation crab is made from fish so it looks like this see how it has that kind of shredded

crab look to it my brother loved this stuff as a kid we do still love it i don't know i don't eat it much it's basically like a fish cake it's kind of like kamaboko like those fish cakes or naruto that you would get in ramen add it to our bowl now to this we're going to add some kupi mayo this is japanese style mayo it's kind of creamier and richer style of mayonnaise i really love it i'm going to use up the rest that's in this tube did you know if you take off this tip there's a star tip here

on the end here yep i'm gonna use about a half a cup to three quarters of a cup just to kind of get it to look like a you know potato salad add a little more to that we're going to add about a quarter cup of cream cheese so let's give that an initial stir break up the cream cheese and mix the mayo in there so this is going to be a little bit of a nod to a spicy crab roll so we're going to add a little bit of sriracha add as much or as little as you like for a little bit of crunch and for color w

e're going to add some tobiko which is fish roe look at that color isn't that beautiful so add a big spoon of that to here oh look how bright that is mm-hmm cubie mayo is so delicious it's got just a richer kind of eggier flavor so so good i've got a baking pan here and i'm just gonna oil it with just a tiny bit of oil and rub out the excess with a paper towel just to ensure the rice doesn't stick scoop that in there and we're going to press it into the bottom of the pan because my oven is small

i'm using a smaller baking pan but you certainly have enough rice to fill a 9 by 13 inch baking pan so on top of our rice we're going to add a layer of frescake i love this stuff this is rice seasoning it's usually composed of toasted sesame seeds chopped up nori which is seaweed and it has other additions depending on the type that you get sometimes i add shiso sometimes there's umeboshi sometimes there's wasabi you can get all different kinds of flavors but you find it everywhere you just spr

inkle it on your rice and that's all you need to do look look how just ah it's just so inviting like you just want to eat that now because it's so pretty i'm gonna grab a spoon and now we're gonna top it with our crab mixture beautiful now we're going to pop this into a preheated 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes until everything kind of gets warmed up remember everything in here is cooked so it shouldn't take very long okay see a little bit alrighty my beautiful lovelies i just took the beau

tiful sushi bake out of the oven and it smells phenomenal and look how this caramelized on top for the final touch i'm going to just dust it with a little bit more of the furukake yes sushi bake [Music] and i'm going to cut little bite-sized portions here and then we're going to catch it in a piece of nori oh it's hot yeah look at that beautiful alrighty my first taste of sushi bake itaki moss hmm i'm gonna have another piece of nori because everything's falling out all right here we go ah oh ho

t absolutely delicious it does not like sushi at all at all now i know my channel name is emmy made in japan i was not actually made in japan but the channel was made in japan the channel was supposed to be a crafting channel it was supposed to be everything that i made while i was living in japan but it's the name that grew with the channel so that's what the channel name ended up being although changes are coming so stay tuned for that i'm actually not japanese by heritage i'm chinese american

by heritage which i've mentioned before but i know many of you may be new and while i have eaten my fair share of sushi i'm certainly no expert on sushi but i know this is not sushi but it is a sushi bake so it is a take on sushi this is completely different than sushi first of all it is hot it is warm the toppings are not raw but it is absolutely delicious it actually reminds me more of a hot bowl of rice with lovely toppings on top although i think it'd be equally delicious at room temperatur

e the topping is rich and creamy you get a little bite of the tobiko the little fish roe it's a little bit of crunch the seasoned rice down below is sushi rice so it's slightly sticky it has just a little bit of vinegar in it to give it kind of some complexity and some tanginess but it's not overly vinegared sometimes you get sushi rice and you're just like whoa it shouldn't be overpowering whatsoever it should just be kind of lightly seasoned it should be enhanced and the textures are marvelous

you've got the nori which kind of holds everything together but it adds that lovely briny seaweedy flavor of the ocean and then it acts as your kind of like shell to hold your meal together and then you've got the frakake in there which echoes the nori because you've got more seaweed flavor in there it's so good you know what would make this really good some sliced avocado on top of this that would be out of sight even more richness [Music] before i leave you can i just share this with you i've

never seen this before this is a baby cupid mayo i picked this up in my travels last time i went to japan and i just have never opened it oh my gosh look at this so stinking cute it's just a fraction the size of the big one i love it little star nozzle on the top alrighty my beautiful lovelies thanks once again for tuning in and if you'd like to try simple health out for free click the link down below or head over to simplehealth.com emmy or use the code emmy at checkout big thanks to simple he

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