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: 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. Apart from being a wrapper, the nori seaweed, usually sold in packs, is loaded with immense nutritional value: It contains: Iodine and Tyrosine – One gram of nori seaweed contains 37 mcg of iodine which is about 25% of the recommended dietary intake (RDI). It also contains the amino acid Tyrosine that combines with iodine to aid in the synthesis of triodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), both of which are thyroid hormones. Vitamins and Minerals – the vitamins present are A, B1, B12, C, and E while the minerals are magnesium, sodium, folate, calcium, iron, and omega-3 fats.