Recipe: Perfect California Rolls

Recipe: Perfect California Rolls Delicious, fresh and tasty.

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 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of California Rolls

1. Prepare 360 ml of Uncooked white rice.

2. It’s 1 of Salmon.

3. You need 1/2 of Avocado.

4. It’s 2 of sheets Nori seaweed.

5. You need 1 of Green onions.

6. Prepare 1 of Sesame seeds.

7. It’s 1 of Sushi vinegar.

8. You need 1 of Mayonnaise.

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 instructions

1. Mix sushi vinegar into hot cooked rice, and let it cool..

2. Lay cling film on top of a sushi mat. Spread enough sushi rice to cover one sheet of nori. On the front half, lay a nori sheet which has been cut in half. Put the avocado, salmon and mayonnaise on top of the nori. Roll it tightly and its done..

3. Heres some ehou-maki and california rolls..

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.