Tuna & Mushroom Sushi (Chirashi-zushi)

This is a recipe for Budget "Chirashi -Zushi (Scattered Sushi)" using a tin of Tuna, bamboo sheets and dried mushrooms.

You need :

A tin of Tuna
Dried mushrooms (soak in 2-3 cups of warm water wit a spoonful of sugar for 1hour)
Fresh ginger
1-2 carrots
A tin of bamboo sheet
Soy sauce
white wine or cooking sake(rice wine)
Suger
Dashi(fish stock) packet
White vinegar
Rice (3cups +)

(1)Soak the dried mushrooms in warm water (3cups )with 1-2tsp of sugar approx. for 1hour (till get soft) mask sure to keep the water as it is a nice stock to cook the veges.

(2)Cut the mushrooms, (drained)bamboo sheets, and carrots into thin strips. Put mushrooms and bamboo sheets and some of the water(stock) into pot. The stock is just enough to cover the mashrooms and bamboo sheets. Add soy sauce and sugar, maybe some white wine or cooking sake, cook till get some taste.Put some fish stock(dashi) powder if you need. Add carrot strips and cook more till carrots get soft and flavoured.

(3)Take all the veges out from the pot, but leave the sauce in the pot. Add thin strips of fresh ginger and drained Tuna, cook with the sauce. Add more soy sauce and sugar and / or the stock if needed. Take the tuna out and set aside separately from the sauce.

(4)Cook rice, make vinegared rice. I make ushi vinegar mixture with 1/4 cup of white vinegar, add 1tbsp of suger(or more) and 1/2 tea spoon of salt. You can do with less sugar than ordinary sushi rice as the veges and tune has sugar-soy sauce flavour. Once the rice get cooked, used the sushi vinegar mixture to make sushi rice. As we do at home, using fan

(5)Mix the vegetable mixture to the vinegared rice white the rice is still hot. Sprinkle Tuna on top, and ginger too. Use spoon to scatter some sauce(soy sauce an sugar mixture used to cook Tuna), but make sure the rice won't get too soggy.(Just to give more flavour to the rice)

(6)You can sprinkle sesame seed, thinly cooked egg strips(like we use fore Hiyashi Chuka(cold noodles), Nori (dired seaweed) strips as topping.

**To make the thin egg strips, use 1 egg to make one sheet, 2 eggs to make two sheet. Use non-stick fry pan. Put 1 tsp of corn flour into egg to make it strong.