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sushi rice

sushi rice noun: sticky short-grain white rice, steamed and seasoned with sugar and vinegar, especially used in sushi dishes.

sushi rice: sticky short-grain white rice, steamed and seasoned with sugar and vinegar, especially used in...
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Noun

sushi rice (uncountable)

  1. Sticky short-grain white rice, steamed and seasoned with sugar and vinegar, especially used in sushi dishes.
    • 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.2013 September 25, Michelle da Silva, “Sushi rice for risotto? Todd Bright's dish gets flexible”, in The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, B.C.: Overstory Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    • 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.2018 April 18, Sophia Gottfried, “Is Sushi Healthy? Here's Everything You Need to Know”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2023
    Synonyms:
    sumeshi

Synonyms of sushi rice

Questions about sushi rice

What does sushi rice mean?
Sushi rice means sticky short-grain white rice, steamed and seasoned with sugar and vinegar, especially used in sushi dishes.
What part of speech is sushi rice?
Sushi rice is a noun.

Words near sushi rice in the dictionary

  1. sushi grade
  2. sushi knife
  3. sushi knives
  4. sushi pizza
  5. sushi pizzas
  6. sushi rice
  7. sushi roll
  8. sushi rolls
  9. sushi terrorism
  10. sushi train
  11. sushi trains

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