Learn how to make Sushi all over the UK with Your Sushi Chefs
After offering Sushi workshops in London, Brighton, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Cambridge and Glasgow, the UK leading sushi school, Your Sushi, has opened a new location in Leeds!
Chef Emmanuel Letellier says, ”Sushi has been democratized a lot - you can even get it in the supermarket, but a lot of people eat the same thing over and over - usually nigiri and California rolls, but the truth is that it is very easy to make yourself, and you can get astonishing results very quickly. You can’t really learn it from a book because there are lots of little tricks, plus the visual aspect, the smell, colour and the shine on the rice and the gloss on the fish. Now if you want high quality nigiris and sashimi and things like that you should go to a good sushi restaurant but for fun, healthy eating you can really make it yourself at home. Sushi is not a set of dishes, it’s really a way of cooking and is always evolving.
‘The most important thing to know is that the secret to good sushi lies in the rice. Sushi literally means vinegared rice in Japanese. When you train as a sushi chef it takes 7-10 years and in the first three years you only deal with cleaning and the rice. There is a big misconception in Europe that sushi is the fish, which it is not. So you can make sushi with anything - you don’t need to have raw fish. At the classes we always have lots of vegetarian options and we do things like a blue cheese and fig sushi maki roll and people think it is amazing. You can have loads of different flavors - you can open your fridge and make sushi out of whatever is in there - as long as you get the rice right. That said we do always also cover the authentic sushi and different ways of slicing the fish and also, in the Sushi Master Classes, ways of cutting sashimi.
The thing is that people eat sushi nowadays from a lot of different places and they don’t necessarily want raw octopus, they just want to be able to make it at home easily and that’s what we do.
We hold courses all over the UK and keep it to a low number, so that the classes are very personal, which is the key to learning. Each person has got the attention of the chef who is always behind them showing them how to do it, so they learn so much more - it’s very hands on.
There are two different course, the first is the basic course called “Let’s Roll” which teaches people the basics of sushi - how to cook the rice and make four to five different sushi rolls, which lasts two hours. The master sushi class lasts three and a half hours and in that one you learn how to fillet the fish, cut it for the sashimi and to make maki and nigiri.
“Let’s roll” Sushi Workshops costs £65 pounds or the Sushi Masterclass costs £85, and Your Sushi also sells vouchers so that you can give these as presents.
‘Nibbling is compulsory on the courses and people go home with a full bento box, miso soup, pickled ginger, chopsticks, soy sauce and a full belly.’ See the website for courses coming. up.
wwwYourSushi.co.uk
