Prawn Nigiri Recipe

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:

1. The first step to make our shrimp nigiri recipe is to prepare the ingredients.
2. 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.
3. To prepare the prawns, remove the shell that covers the shellfish together with the vein that is on the back of the shellfish
4. Once we clean the prawns, the wooden toothpick must go through the opposite side to the back of our prawn. Look at the photo.
5. Bring a skillet to medium heat and add a little butter.
6. Add the prawns and sauté them for a few minutes.
7. Once they are slightly golden, remove the prawns from the heat and carefully discard the toothpick without breaking them.
8. Make a cut, with the help of a very sharp knife, on the side where the wooden toothpick was. Booking.
9. Separately, form medium-sized balls with the rice, as seen in the photograph.
10. 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.
11. Add the shrimp pieces on top of each of the rice balls as shown in the photograph.
12. To finish our shrimp nigiri add a thin strip of nori seaweed to secure the shrimp to the rice ball.
13.  Serve this elegant appetizer together with other typical Japanese dishes such as salmon sashimi.