Wild rice Chirashizushi with Avocado ワイルドライスのちらし寿司

Chirashizushi is one style of serving sushi in Japan. It is also called scattered sushi. This type of sushi is easier than rolling sushi because as long as you manage to prepare the sushi rice, you can just scatter all the toppings on top-easy!

Sushi is a rice dish so it is high in carbs however, using vinegar lowers it’s GI value. Also, if you choose plenty and a variety of vegetables and raw fish as the toppings, you can make it a healthy meal. I love food and blogging about Japanese food.

I’ve been blogging for over one year now and share not just my recipes, but other’s Japanese food recipes on my Face Book page. This wild rice Chirashizushi from SBS food web site inspired me as I love the beautifully taken photos and wanted to recreate and take photo myself.

I have never ever seen black wild rice used for making sushi in Japan so this is quite a westernised highbred sushi I guess. And for toppings, I would not have any problems if I were in Japan, but here in Brisbane I found it is quite hard to find fresh tuna. I found sashimi grade tuna on the weekend and bought a little bit as it was quite expensive. Fortunately in Australia, there are plenty of delicious fresh Australian avocados. When I used to lived in Japan, I could never use avocado. But now I have avocado everyday. I don’t know who created that California roll sushi, but the avocado is good in Sushi rolls with Japanese mayonnaise. Now avocado is a must topping when we make any type of sushi in my household.

Also check out all the Japanese cooking basics including how to make perfect sushi rice.

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Wild rice Chirashizushi with Australian Avocado

Prep Time

40 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

1 hr

 

Chirashi(scattered) sushi using wild rice and Australian Avocado recipe

Course: Rice, Rice dish

Cuisine: Japanese

Servings: 4

Calories: 346 kcal

Author: Shihoko | Chopstick Chronicles

Ingredients

• 1 cup uncooked wild rice
• 2 nori sheets
• 3 eggs
• 1 Australian avocado
• 150 g sashimi grade tuna
• 2 radishes
• 20 g dried shiitake mushrooms
• 30 g carrots
• 30 g sugar snap peas

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

1. Soak the shiitake mushrooms in a cup of water.
2. Cook 1 cup of rice in a rice cooker.
3. Parboil sugar peas, slice thinly and set aside.
4. Make Japanese rolled egg and cut into small cubes(if you can not make rolled egg, the egg can be just fired flat and sliced into thin strips instead).
5. Cut sashime grade tuna into cubes.
6. Cut Australian avocado into cubes and set aside.
7. Make sushi vinegar. Put all sushi vinegar ingredients into a small saucepan and bring it to boil over medium heat. Turn the hear off and let cool.
8. Put 100ml of the water that the mushroom soaked in and 2 tbs of sugar, 2 tbs sake, and 2 tbs of soy sauce into a saucepan.
9. Put the sliced mushrooms and carrots into the sauce pan and bring it to boil then reduce the heat to low and allow it to simmer until the most of the liquid has reduced and the carrots are soft.
10. Remove from heat and allow to cool down
11. When the rice is cooked, pour the sushi vinegar over the rice and mis using a cutting action with a wooden spatula.
12. Serve 1/4 of the rice on a plate and scatter all toppings prepared previously. Garnish with thinly slice Shiso leaves and Nori sheet pieces.

Recipe Notes

If you don't have wild rice, replace with sushi rice and if you don't know how to prepare sushi rice(vinegared), check How to make perfect sushi rice post.

Nutrition Facts

Wild rice Chirashizushi with Australian Avocado

Amount Per Serving

Calories 346 Calories from Fat 108

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 12g 18%

Saturated Fat 2g 10%

Cholesterol 137mg 46%

Sodium 77mg 3%

Potassium 670mg 19%

Total Carbohydrates 39g 13%

Dietary Fiber 6g 24%

Sugars 2g

Protein 20g 40%

Vitamin A 48.1%

Vitamin C 12.4%

Calcium 3.9%

Iron 12.6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.