Recipe: Tasty California Rolls

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California Rolls. A California roll is a fresh take on traditional Japanese rice rolls. Filled with avocado, crab, and cucumber, it's fresh and crunchy and makes a filling meal. You can use real or imitation crab.

California Rolls are a type of maki sushi (巻き寿司 - rolled sushi) made by rolling ingredients such as crab and avocado in nori and seasoned rice.

Although rolled sushi originates in Japan, California Rolls are not from Japan.

Roll the California Roll using the bamboo mat and make sure that you tug the sushi rolls very tight.

You can have California Rolls using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of California Rolls

1. It’s 1 cup of Japanese short or medium grain rice.

2. It’s 1 cup of cold water.

3. Prepare 5 Tbsp of Sushi Vinegar.

4. Prepare 1/2 lb of Imitation crab meat.

5. You need 1 of Avocado, ripe but still firm, cut into slices.

6. Prepare 1/2 of medium cucumber, peeled and sliced into long julienne strips.

7. Prepare of Toasted Nori Seaweed.

8. It’s of Toasted sesame seeds.

Keep rolling using the bamboo mat until you have have a nice roll.

A California roll is a creative American twist on sushi.

This page will describe the California Uramaki.

Uramaki has nori or seaweed on the inside and the rice on the outside, as opposed to a regular sushi roll, which usually has the seaweed on the outside.

California Rolls step by step

1. Wash the rice with cold water until the water runs clear. soak for 30 minutes, drain, add water and cook on medium to low flame until water is completely absorbed, remove rice in a large bowl breaking lumps and let it cool slightly; add vinegar and mix for vinegar to coat evenly and set aside..

2. For assembly, wrap sushi mat with cling foil, split Nori into half, place on mat, evenly spread a generous handful of rice to cover the entire nori sheet and flip over, place filling across the center of nori, start rolling using mat to keep the roll in place; apply pressure to tighten the roll, once complete sprinkle sesame seeds and cut, serve with spicy mayonnaise or wasabi and soy sauce..

Roll up rice mixture over filling, using the bamboo mat to lift and compress the mixture while rolling; remove plastic wrap as you roll.

Remove mat; roll sushi rolls in sesame seeds.

Repeat with remaining ingredients to make eight rolls.

Serve with soy sauce, wasabi and ginger slices if desired.

I'm not a brave sushi goer (no raw fish for me!), but I sure do love my California rolls.