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California rolls
Nb persons: 6
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Source: An Introduction to Japanese Home Cooking by Mathilde Rufenacht
| Strictly speaking, California rolls are not Japanese - you would be hard pressed to find them in Japan, - but they are a marvelous example how cooking techniques can be deliciously adapted to local ingredients. I give this recipe here as a beacon for all experimental cooks: | |
| 12 cups | cooked sushi rice, see separate recipe |
| 6 sheets | nori, seaweed |
| Filling: | |
| 1 medium | cucumber |
| 1 | avocado |
| 1/2 tbsp | lemon juice |
| 9 | imitation crab stick, or cooked snow crab meat |
| Sides: | |
| wasabi | |
| soy sauce | |
| gari, pickled ginger, see separated recipe | |
Prepare the sushi rice according to above recipe using 2 cups of Japanese rice.
Preparation of the filling:
Wash and peel the cucumber. Seed it and cut it in thin long strips. Cut the avocado in two, remove the pit and peel, and cut it likewise. Sprinkle a few drops of lemon on it to keep it from darkening. Cut the crab sticks in two lengthwise.
Rolling:
Put a nori sheet in the center of a dry bamboo rolling mat. Take about one sixth of the rice and spread it evenly on the nori leaving one inch at the far end of the nori sheet, in order to have a quarter inch-thick layer of rice on the sheet. To handle the rice, wet your fingers with water mixed with a little bit of vinegar. Dispose one sixth of the cucumber and avocado strips on a two-inch strip in the center of the rice. Arrange the crab sticks on top. Start rolling by taking the end of the rolling mat nearest to you and bringing it over the end of the layer of rice. Press to make a tight roll while pulling back the end of the bamboo mat as neccessary. With a wet towel, push softly on the sides of the roll to arrange the filling. If necessary, wet a little the end of the nori sheet to help closing the roll. Remove the rolling mat. Cut 1 inch-thick slices with a wet knife. Repeat for the other nori sheets.
Serve with wasabi, soy sauce and gari at the side. The soy sauce is poured in small individual plates and a little bit of wasabi is dissolved in it. Dip the sushi in it as you eat.
California rolls can be served as appetizer or as main dish. Many variations of filling are possible. Try for example cooked shrimps, raw tuna, shiitake nimono, meat for gyuudon (see separate recipes).
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