Combine lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, sugar and salt to season your rice to taste. This will yield sushi rice that you can use with your regular ingredients to make nigiri sushi.

Your apple cider vinegar sushi rice can also be used to make gunkan-maki, like this month’s recipe. Just mold it into shape and wrap with nori, and top with your favorite ingredients.

Use balsamic vinegar, sugar and salt to make a different kind of sushi rice. How about a veggie sushi variation? Try a roasted pepper as your ingredient for a nigiri sushi.

Make your balsamic vinegar sushi rice and combine with sun-dried tomatoes in oil with basil. Then wrap with a slice of cucumber gunkan-maki style and top with more veggies!

Onigiri Comfort

Wrap your rice balls with nori. Onigiri is comfort food for most Japanese, and there are hundreds of ways to make it—just like sushi. See our past issue of Zojirushi 101 for more.

Kyara-ben Inspiration

How would we come up with all those wonderful “character bento” styles if we didn’t have nori to dress them up? Here’s how we did it with one of our Kyara-ben recipes.

Nori Toppings

Nori is often sold in small thin strips, which is used as a topping for pasta and rice dishes. It can also be used in salads, or as a topping in soups. You’ve seen nori in ramen, right?

Seaweed Snack

Nori makes a great snack, if you get the flavored type called ajitsuke (flavored) nori. There is also a roasted and salted nori snack as well as a deep fried one that crunches like chips.

Select the Correct Grain

Use short grain or medium grain rice. Certain grain types contain more starch molecules, which make it sticky after cooking.

Measure Water

Our pots have a convenient SUSHI measurement that helps measure the correct amount of water. Some cookers also have a sushi setting menu.

Mix in the Vinegar

Sushi rice tastes best when vinegar is added right after the rice finishes cooking. Use the timer setting to plan when you want the rice cooked.

Select Your Rice Cooker!

You just cannot go wrong with any of our rice cookers. Zojirushi has a variety of rice cookers with different features to suit your needs.

Zojirushi’s exclusive Taste Shield Plunger blocks the sediment from flowing out, ensuring good tasting coffee every time, to the last drop.

Double-wall stainless steel vacuum insulation, made of premium 18/8 grade steel, is durable while it keeps the heat in for maximum heat retention.

Embossed water fill line makes it easy to measure the correct amount of water. Zojirushi ensures that any surface that contacts food or liquid is BPA-free.

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