How to Cook Perfect California Rolls

How to Cook 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.

The filling is rolled wrapped with the nori (seaweed) sheet inside.

So it is unique and kind of an inside out sushi roll.

The California roll was created in the United States and reverse imported into Japan.

You can cook California Rolls using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of California Rolls

1. Prepare 6 cups of sushi rice.

2. You need 9 Oz of cooked crab meat.

3. Prepare 6 tbsp of Japanese mayonnaise.

4. It’s 1/2 of English cucumber.

5. You need 2 of avocados.

6. It’s 1/2 of lemon.

7. It’s 8 sheets of Nori (Seaweed).

8. It’s 1/4 cup of white sesame seeds (roasted).

9. It’s of for toppings :-.

10. Prepare of Ikura (Salman roe).

11. You need of Tobiko(flying fish roe).

12. Prepare of Vinegar water for dipping hands(Tezu).

13. You need 1/4 cup of water.

14. You need 2 tsp of rice vinegar.

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

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

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.

California Rolls instructions

1. Gather all the ingredients..

2. Prepare the feelings. Combine the crab meat with Japanese mayonnaise and mix together.

3. Cucumber- peel and remove seeds and cut into thin long strips same length as the Nori sheet.

4. Avocado - peel pit and cut into 1/4" thick slices squeeze the lemon juice over the avocados to prevent Browning..

5. Nori sheet - cut off 1/3 and use 2/3 of nori..

6. Cover the bamboo mat with plastic wrap and prepare vinegar water for dipping hands.

7. Lay a nori sheet Shiny side down on the bamboo mat. wet your hands with Teju and spread one cup of rice evenly on to the Nori sheet.

8. Sprinkle the rice with sesame seeds or Tobiko.

9. Turn the Nori sheet over so that the rice is facing down. line the edge of Nori sheet at the bottom of the bamboo mat. place the cucumber crab meat and avocado at the bottom of the Nori sheet.

10. Grab the bottom edge of the mat while keeping the filling in place with your fingers roll it into a tight cylinder tucking the filling in firmly.

11. Lift the edge of bamboo mat slightly and roll it farward while keeping gentle pressure on the mat.

12. Now Sprinkle ikura on the roll.

13. With the very sharp knife cut each roll in half and then cut each half into three pieces. Remember to clean the knife with the samp cloth after every few cuts..

Make your own delicious California sushi rolls with seaweed sheets, sweet and tangy sushi rice, cucumber, avocado, and a creamy imitation crab filling.

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.