sushi rice

English

Nigiri, consisting of raw salmon on a bed of sushi rice

Noun

sushi rice (uncountable)

1. Sticky short-grain white rice, steamed and seasoned with sugar and vinegar, especially used in sushi dishes.

   Synonym: sumeshi

   • 2013 September 25, Michelle da Silva, “Sushi rice for risotto? Todd Bright's dish gets flexible”, in The Georgia Straight‎^[1], Vancouver, B.C.: Overstory Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-07-10:

     Bright makes his risotto with sushi rice rather than with traditional risotto rice and says that home cooks can use any short-grain rice that produces starch.

   • 2018 April 18, Sophia Gottfried, “Is Sushi Healthy? Here's Everything You Need to Know”, in Time‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-01:

     Most of those calories come from the sticky white rice that holds your roll together. Sushi rice is typically made by adding in vinegar and sugar, and the sugar gives it more calories than steamed rice, Zeratsky says.