Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, california rolls. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
California Rolls is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. California Rolls is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
A California roll or California maki is a makizushi sushi roll that is usually rolled inside-out, and containing cucumber, crab or imitation crab, and avocado. Most versions of California Roll include crab and avocado. Although I prefer using real crab meat, if you don't have access to fresh seafood, imitation crab (a.k.a. surimi) will do in a pinch. How to make a California Roll.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have california rolls using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make California Rolls:
- Get 6 cups sushi rice
- Get 9 Oz cooked crab meat
- Prepare 6 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
- Make ready 1/2 English cucumber
- Prepare 2 avocados
- Get 1/2 lemon
- Take 8 sheets Nori (Seaweed)
- Take 1/4 cup white sesame seeds (roasted)
- Take for toppings :-
- Get Ikura (Salman roe)
- Prepare Tobiko(flying fish roe)
- Prepare Vinegar water for dipping hands(Tezu)
- Take 1/4 cup water
- Get 2 tsp rice vinegar
You can use real or imitation crab. Cover a makisu (sushi rolling mat) with plastic wrap. Place half of a sheet of the seaweed over the plastic on the mat. Transfer the roll onto a cutting board.
Steps to make California Rolls:
- Gather all the ingredients.
- Prepare the feelings. Combine the crab meat with Japanese mayonnaise and mix together
- Cucumber- peel and remove seeds and cut into thin long strips same length as the Nori sheet
- Avocado - peel pit and cut into 1/4" thick slices squeeze the lemon juice over the avocados to prevent Browning.
- Nori sheet - cut off 1/3 and use 2/3 of nori.
- Cover the bamboo mat with plastic wrap and prepare vinegar water for dipping hands
- Lay a nori sheet Shiny side down on the bamboo mat. wet your hands with Teju and spread one cup of rice evenly on to the Nori sheet
- Sprinkle the rice with sesame seeds or Tobiko
- Turn the Nori sheet over so that the rice is facing down. line the edge of Nori sheet at the bottom of the bamboo mat. place the cucumber crab meat and avocado at the bottom of the Nori sheet
- Grab the bottom edge of the mat while keeping the filling in place with your fingers roll it into a tight cylinder tucking the filling in firmly
- Lift the edge of bamboo mat slightly and roll it farward while keeping gentle pressure on the mat
- Now Sprinkle ikura on the roll
- With the very sharp knife cut each roll in half and then cut each half into three pieces. Remember to clean the knife with the samp cloth after every few cuts.
Place half of a sheet of the seaweed over the plastic on the mat. Transfer the roll onto a cutting board. Rub a knife on a damp paper towel before slicing the roll into six equal portions. California roll is one of the most popular sushi recipes in the United States. It's a real Japanese sushi roll with sushi rice wrapped with nori (seaweed) and stuffed with.
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