Learn Sushi Making at Home or at the Office

Making sushi is about so much more than just actually just making your roll. In our class, you learn how to:

• Cook sushi rice to perfection (the first and most important step in making successful sushi)
• Choose your ingredients * For non-fish eaters we substitute cooked beef, chicken, pork, or vegetables.
• Prepare the ingredients
• Make a range of different sushi styles, including Hosomaki (Thin Rolls), Chumaki (Medium Rolls), Futomaki (Thick Rolls), and Temaki (hand rolls)
• Once you've learned how to make all of these types of sushi comes the best part: eating what you've made! You can then take your newly acquired skills home and make delicious, fresh sushi where ever you go!

Basic Class

You will learn to make the 4 traditional ways of preparing sushi and sashimi.

1. Futomaki: Literally translated as "fat roll, " Futomaki contains seasoned rice and multiple fillings wrapped in a sheet of nori. Futomaki is rolled in a bamboo sushi mat and then sliced crosswise into rounds. When you think of a sushi roll, Futomaki probably comes to mind. Due to its popularity, Futomaki is sometimes just called maki.
2. Temaki: Temaki, which means "hand roll, " is a type of sushi consisting of rice and sashimi, vegetables, or other fillings enclosed in a nori cone. Cone-shaped atemaki is rolled by hand and designed to be eaten by hand.
3. Hosomaki: Hosomaki translates to "thin roll" in Japanese. It's made using a half-sheet of nori and rolled on a half-size rolling mat, so it's more slender than a typical temaki and easy to eat with chopsticks. Hosomaki often contains just one or two ingredients, so it is sometimes categorized by its main ingredient. Kappamaki, for example, features thin strips of cucumber, and tekkamaki is filled with tuna. Yellowtail hosomaki is called hamachimaki
4. Uramaki: Uramaki means "inside-out roll." Uramaki features a layer of rice outside of the nori, and the rice can be coated with sesame seeds to make it less sticky. A California roll is the most famous example of uramaki

Advance Class

In advanced classes, you learn the 4 traditional rolls (as in the basic class above) along with sushi tacos, burritos, sushi sliders, and other creative ways of creating sushi dishes. Using your 2nd mat, you will learn the art of decorating the tops of your sushi. The class also includes vegetable decoration skills and recipes for sauces and sticky rice. Class includes an 8 1/4 inch Japanese sushi knife, 2 rolling mats( 2nd mat used to top your rolls), a sushi prep pad, and crafted Japanese chopsticks.