Easiest Way to Make Yummy California Rolls

Easiest Way to Make Yummy 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 cook California Rolls using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of California Rolls

1. You need 360 ml of Rice (for making sushi rice).

2. You need 4 of sheets Nori seaweed.

3. Prepare 8 of Imitation crab sticks.

4. Prepare 1 of Avocado.

5. You need 1 of Cucumber.

6. Prepare 4 tbsp of Masago (you can mix it with mayonnaise).

7. It’s 70 ml of Sushi vinegar.

8. You need 1 of White 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 instructions

1. Cook the rice to a slightly harder firmness than usual to make sushi rice, then mix with the sushi vinegar. Cut the avocado in half vertically, then slice vertically into 16 slices..

2. Put the nori on top of the sushi rolling mat, then top it with the rice and press down slightly. Sprinkle the white sesame seeds on top. Cover with plastic wrap and flip over..

3. Put the avocado, cucumber, crab sticks, and masago on top of the nori. Wrap it up, including the plastic wrap, while pressing down with your hands..

4. When slicing, cut through the plastic wrap. Finally, remove the plastic wrap and transfer to a plate..

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.