California Roll 加州寿司卷

I have not make sushi for a long time. We went to Jin Tai Fung for Xiao Long Bao on Sunday so I took the chance to go (super-market) shopping for sushi making ingredients. It's sushi for dinner yesterday!

Ingredients:

• Rice mixed with Japanese sushi vinegar
• Japanese Cucumber, cut in strips - length wise
• Tobiko
• Avocado, sliced
• Nori
• Prepared Radish, cut in strips - length wise
• Japanese mayonnaise
• Crab stick, cut in strips – length wise

How to do it:

1. Scoop cooked rice into a bowl.
2. Wait for the rice to cool before adding the vinegar.
3. Fold in the vinegar. Do not smash the grain.
4. Use a damp cloth to cover when not in use.
5. Wrap your bamboo mat with clipwrap.
6. Lay rice over the mat.
7. Place a piece of nori on top of the rice.
8. Place on the nori, cucumber, radish, crabstick, avocado and mayonnaise.
9. Now start to roll. Squeeze slightly as you roll.
10. When the roll is formed, spread some tobiko on the side on the mat.
11. Now gently roll to let the tobiko ‘stick’ to it.
12. Cut the roll into equally pieces.
13. Serve.

California Temaki 加州寿司手卷

Ingredients:

• Rice mixed with Japanese sushi vinegar
• Nori
• Avocado, sliced
• Tobiko
• Japanese mayonnaise
• Japanese Cucumber, cut in thin strips - length wise
• Crab stick, cut in strips – length wise

How to do it: 

1. Cut the nori in to half.
2. Put nori on your palm.
3. Spread half of the nori with rice.
4. Place cucumber, crabtick, avocado and mayonnaise diagonally on the rice.
5. Now close in your fingers to let the nori fold in together (ie, joining 2 side of the rice together.
6. Now roll in the rest of the nori so it looks like a cone.
7. You can use a grain to ‘stick’ the nori to the cone.
8. Sprinkle some tobiko on top.
9. Serve.