Ingredients to make Prawn Nigiri:
- 8 units of Prawns
- 250 grams of cooked sushi rice
- 1 tablet of cream cheese
- 1 sheet of nori seaweed
- Wooden sticks (for skewers)
How to make Prawn Nigiri:
- The first step to make our shrimp nigiri recipe is to prepare the ingredients.
- Cooked rice for nigiri is cooked in a different way than traditional rice, to follow this preparation in detail check the recipe for space rice for sushi.
- To prepare the prawns, remove the shell that covers the shellfish together with the vein that is on the back of the shellfish
- Once we clean the prawns, the wooden toothpick must go through the opposite side to the back of our prawn. Look at the photo.
- Bring a skillet to medium heat and add a little butter.
- Add the prawns and sauté them for a few minutes.
- Once they are slightly golden, remove the prawns from the heat and carefully discard the toothpick without breaking them.
- Make a cut, with the help of a very sharp knife, on the side where the wooden toothpick was. Booking.
- Separately, form medium-sized balls with the rice, as seen in the photograph.
- Then he pipes some cream cheese on top of the balls to serve as glue for the shrimp. You can also use some wasabi paste.
- Add the shrimp pieces on top of each of the rice balls as shown in the photograph.
- To finish our shrimp nigiri add a thin strip of nori seaweed to secure the shrimp to the rice ball.
- Serve this elegant appetizer together with other typical Japanese dishes such as salmon sashimi.
