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Welcome back to another video recipe, I'm Chef Devaux and today I am going to show you
guys how to decorate this beautiful plate of sushi using ginger and wasabi. I hope you
guys enjoy it, let's get straight into it. Alright so the first thing you want to do
is make some wasabi paste, now this made with just dry wasabi powder and some water. You
just mix it until you get the right consistency, sort of like Play-Doh more or less. Now this
isn't real wasabi, if you want to know more about what is real wasabi and what is fake
wasabi then click on the link on the top left corner and that will tell you all about it.
Alright, so basically what you want to do is you want to start off by making two leaves
of wasabi, okay so take two balls, make them more or less the same size -- okay, perfect
And now you just want to squish them more less the same, okay -- perfect. And now you
take your knife and hold it close to the tip so you have more control over it, you don't
need to use the handle just make sure you don't cut yourself with the blade.
Then you just trace out a teardrop shape which will make up the leaf -- okay, perfect. Now
you take the excess away, perfect, and then you can use that for another plate or something.
Now you want to just mold it a little bit so it's got a little bit softer edges with
your fingers, get just the right shape. Pat it down a little bit make it a little bit
thinner. There we go, soften the edges -- you don't
want it to look cut. Now you trace with your knife a central line and then lines coming out from the center
line going out towards the edges, like a leaf would. If you're not sure how a leaf looks
like, just go to a tree, pick one up and take a look.
Okay, perfect -- this takes a little bit of patience, but you do get out exactly what you put in. Once that's
done just unglue them by cutting underneath, be very gentle.
Once you're done with making the wasabi leaves, you take a piece of coriander or mint or whatever
has a stalk and then you just take off the leaves, like so. What you want is this stalk
free of leaves. Perfect, what you want to do now is take some pickled ginger and you
just want to divide it into five, so you have a five petal flower. You can get this pickled
ginger in nearly any supermarket these days or a Japanese grocery story, Chinese grocery
store, anywhere really. You want it naturally pink, you don't want
it to be synthetically altered with color and stuff like that. Okay, so that's about
right, perfect. And now you take a little wasabi ball and you take your stalk, maybe
cut it to length slightly -- there we go -- and you get it to come towards the center of your
flower, then place a little ball of wasabi in the middle, add your wasabi leafs, just
like so. One on each side, beautiful. Now finish it off with sriracha hot sauce to make
your center, and you can draw some lines at the bottom if you want, like ground -- perfect.
There you go that's how to decorate your sushi plate with wasabi and pickled ginger.
I hope you all enjoyed how to make this very simply but stunning decoration for your pickled
ginger and wasabi when making sushi platters, and if you want to make the same sushi roll
used in this presentation then click on the link on the top left corner and that will
take you to a video how to make this sushi roll. If you want to buy the same plate as
I used in this demonstration then click on the link on the left right now, it's a pretty
cool plate, it comes with the four chopstick sets and the little ceramic trays to put your
soy sauce. It's a pretty nice set I think, check it out.
Anyway, next week I am going to be going on vacation to Ibiza for the closing party, so
I'm going to be putting out a very short video. I'm sorry about that but I just don't have
time to do anything else. Just wait one week and after that we'll be back on the schedule
of making one recipe a week. I'm going to try to make them as amazing as possible. That's
my goal. I hope you guys enjoy them as much as I like making them -- until next week,
good-bye. Don't forget to subscribe by clicking on the top left corner and look at my other
videos by clicking on the right. And of course, like this video -- thank you.
Until next week -- bye. END