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

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, roll-your-own california rolls. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Roll-Your-Own California Rolls An easy and fun family/group dinner idea. Just cook some rice and season it with sushi vinegar, mix your surimi (krab) with a little mayo, lemon, and sugar (unless you have Kewpie mayo, which is sweet enough on its own), cut up your cucumber and avo, set it on the table with some toasted nori, and let everyone at it! Now, carefully roll the sushi up…if you have a sushi mat, use the mat to push the roll along while rolling the mat up in the opposite direction (check out this video for an example).

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

The ingredients needed to make Roll-Your-Own California Rolls:
  1. Get For the rice:
  2. Take 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. Prepare 5 Tablespoons sushi seasoning vinegar
  4. Make ready For the krab:
  5. Take 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. Get 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. Take 1 teaspoon sugar
  8. Take 1 Tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
  9. Take All the rest of the stuff you'll need:
  10. Make ready 1 large ripe avocado (or 2 medium) cut into 1/4" thick strips vertically
  11. Prepare 1/2 an English (hothouse) cucumber, seeded and cut into thin 3 or 4 inch long strips
  12. Take Korean style seasoned and toasted seaweed (see pic below)
  13. Prepare Optional:
  14. Take toasted sesame seeds
  15. Prepare wasabi and soy sauce
  16. Make ready sushi ginger

At the other end of the sheet, place the crab sticks, cucumber and avocado. Roll it as you would a basic maki, only with the rice facing out. Make the California Rolls: Line up all the filling ingredients (crabmeat, cucumber, avocado, and sesame seeds) on a tray along with the sushi rice and half-sheets of nori, stacked up in a closed sealable plastic bag. Layer ¼ of the crab, cucumber, and avocado on top of the nori on the side closest to you.

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.

Use your bamboo roller, to roll the sushi away from you. Press and roll until you get to the end. Cut the sushi in half with a very sharp knife and wipe the blade with a wet towel between each cut. Today, we're making a variation on the California roll. Along with sushi rice and sheets of seaweed (nori), California rolls require only a few ingredients: crab meat (or imitation), avocado, and cucumber.

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