Roll-Your-Own California Rolls
Roll-Your-Own California Rolls

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, roll-your-own california rolls. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have roll-your-own california rolls using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Roll-Your-Own California Rolls:
  1. Get For the rice:
  2. Get 2 cups rice cooked to package instructions (sushi rice is ideal, but I used jasmine yesterday because it's what I had on hand)
  3. Make ready 5 Tablespoons sushi seasoning vinegar
  4. Get For the krab:
  5. Get 1 pound surimi (krab), rough chopped. (If it's previously frozen, you'll want to defrost completely and squeeze out any excess water before chopping.)
  6. Prepare 1/2-2/3 cups mayonnaise (If you have Kewpie mayo, which is the kind they usually use in sushi restaurants, then skip the sugar below.)
  7. Make ready 1 teaspoon sugar
  8. Take 1 Tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
  9. Take All the rest of the stuff you'll need:
  10. Take 1 large ripe avocado (or 2 medium) cut into 1/4" thick strips vertically
  11. Make ready 1/2 an English (hothouse) cucumber, seeded and cut into thin 3 or 4 inch long strips
  12. Get Korean style seasoned and toasted seaweed (see pic below)
  13. Take Optional:
  14. Take toasted sesame seeds
  15. Make ready wasabi and soy sauce
  16. Take sushi ginger

You'll watch Hitoshi carefully prepare Make your own delicious California sushi rolls with seaweed sheets, sweet and tangy sushi rice, cucumber, avocado, and a creamy imitation crab filling. To make a California roll, cover a sushi rolling mat in plastic wrap, then place a seaweed sheet on the plastic with the shiny side down. Dip your fingertips into a small bowl of water, then spread a thin layer of sushi rice on the seaweed. Sprinkle the rice with sesame seeds, then flip the seaweed sheet over.

Steps to make Roll-Your-Own California Rolls:
  1. Cook the 2 cups of rice according to package instructions, fluff the rice and let it cool slightly (but not completely) before adding your sushi seasoning vinegar and mixing it thoroughly throughout the rice in a fluffing kind of motion. You don't want to stir to mix because your rice will turn into a gummy mess. - - Set aside.
  2. Mix your krab ingredients together and set aside.
  3. Cut your cukes and avos and set aside.
  4. If you get the large gim or toasted nori, cut the sheets in half widthwise.
  5. Lay it all out on the table and let people assemble, roll, and eat. It doesn't have to be a neat restaurant-style handroll roll. Just roll it up like a burrito and enjoy with wasabi and soy sauce and some sushi ginger if you like. :) - - Alternatively, you can just make easy rice bowls with all the ingredients and either omit the nori or tear it up in small pieces and sprinkle it on top.

Now comes the fun part: rolling! Make sure all the ingredients are prepped and ready to go/ Cut cucumber and avocado At Kitchn, we know how important it is to find recipes that are worth your time. Make a healthy sushi snack with our easy step-by-step guide to California rolls. Perfect for entertaining friends and family and they look quite impressive too! Sit a sheet of clingfilm over a sushi rolling mat and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

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