Recipe: Appetizing 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 cook California Rolls using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of California Rolls

1. It’s of enough to make 3 full rolls Cooked and seasoned sushi rice.

2. Prepare of sheets Nori seaweed.

3. Prepare of Avocado.

4. It’s of Shrimp.

5. You need of Shiso leaves.

6. Prepare of Lettuce.

7. You need of Pepper.

8. You need 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. Place a sheet of nori seaweed on top of a bamboo rolling mat and cover with a layer of plastic wrap. Spread the rice out on the plastic wrap to the size of the sheet of nori seaweed, and then place the nori on top of the rice..

2. Arrange the fillings neatly on top of the nori seaweed sheet, and then roll up as you would for normal rolled sushi..

3. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top, and then all thats left to do is slice the sushi..

4. All done!.

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.