Sushi Secrets: Easy Recipes for the Home Cook. Prepare delicious sushi at home using sustainable local ingredients!

“Marisa takes my all-time favorite food–sushi–and makes it doable at home. Don’t be scared; she’s going to walk you through each step. Adding her own inventive twists, Marisa’s sushi recipes are everything that food should be–beautiful, delicious, and fun.” —Melissa Petersen, editor and publisher of Edible Memphis Magazine

Author Hideo Dekura takes you step-by-step through a tempting array of recipes that will delight experienced cooks and kitchen novices alike. Using the many varieties of traditional sushi as a starting point, Sushi Modern shows how to create new flavor combinations — and make sushi with ingredients and equipment make preparing sushi a breeze.

You’ll soon be sampling smoked salmon and asparagus sushi with cream cheese, Parmesan cheese sushi with cucumbers, tomatoes, and an olive oil vinaigrette, or rainbow rolls with arugula, yellowtail, and mango that you’ve rolled yourself.

Inside this sushi cookbook you will find recipes for a myriad of sushi rolls, using everything from grilled sirloin to smoked salmon or cheese to pate. From directions on preparing the perfect sushi rice—and a recipe for black rice—to planning a sushi meal, this sushi recipe book provides all the steps you’ll need to make sushi at home. Step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs make it easy for even a beginner to start rolling their own sushi right away.

Some of the sushi recipes found in this sushi guide include:

• Chirashi-zushi
• California Cone Rolls
• Nigiri-zushi
• Molded Sushi