Title: What Is Gunkan Sushi? Read This First! - Easy Homemade Sushi
Headings: What Is Gunkan Sushi? Read This First!
What Is Gunkan Sushi? Read This First!
Gunkan Maki – The Battleship Wrapped in Seaweed
Maki
Gunkan Maki
Gunkan Sushi Ingredients and their Nutritional Value
The Wrapper – Nori Seaweed Sheet
The Sushi Rice
Sweet Rice Vinegar
The Toppings
How Gunkan Sushi is Prepared
How to Eat Gunkan Sushi

Content: The striking variation in this maki is its oval shape that looks like a tiny warship. You can find gunkan sushi at sushi restaurants and in takeout sushi bento boxes. Gunkan Sushi Ingredients and their Nutritional Value
Before you reserve a table at your local sushi joint, it helps to have a thorough knowledge of what exactly makes up this sushi roll and the value the different components add. By now, you must be knowing that Gunkan sushi has four main components. The wrapper- made of a Nori Seaweed sheet
Sushi Rice
Sweet Rice Vinegar
Toppings
The Wrapper – Nori Seaweed Sheet
Nori like this is an edible seaweed with a strong, distinctive, ocean flavor. In Japanese cuisine, nori is used in the form of dried sheets to wrap rolls of sushi. The seaweed, scientifically classified as a species of the red alga, is harvested at sea, shredded, and rack-dried into paper-thin, black sheets measuring approximately 18 cm × 20 cm and each weighing 3 grams. Some gunkan sushi preparers first roast the nori to give it a strong, crispy texture before wrapping it around the sushi rice ball. Most sheets have indented lines on them and this makes it easy for you to cut along the lines giving you uniform strips about 4cm in width. The wrapping is gently but tightly done around the rice so that it glues on the rice.