California Roll カリフォルニア巻き
Unique and delicious California roll sushi recipe invented in USA and reverse imported to Japan. Tips to roll sushi inside out with step by step photo instructions.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 5 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups rice *1
- 4 tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 piece Kombu kelp strip
- 1.8 cups water
- 5 Nori Seaweed sheets *2
- 6 imitation crab meat(Kanikama)
- 1 cucumber *3
- 1 small avocado
- 5 tsp Japanese mayonnaise *4
- 5 tsp White sesame seeds *5
Instructions
- 1
Wash the rice under running water a few times. Drain the water and place the rice in a rice cooker.
- 2
Add the strip of Kombu kelp and set the rice cooker to cook the rice.
- 3
While the rice is being cooked in the rice cooker, prepare the sushi rice vinegar.
- 4
Combine all sushi vinegar ingredients in a small saucepan and place over medium heat.
- 5
Heat the vinegar till all sugar and salt dissolve. Set it aside.
- 6
When the rice is cooked, transfer the rice to a Hangiri (or a mixing bowl) and pour the rice vinegar over and combine rice and vinegar. Set it aside. *7
- 7
Cut the imitation crab meat in half, lengthwise.
- 8
Cut the cucumber - long matchstick like.
- 9
Slice the avocado to similar size and shape of crab meat and cucumber.
- 10
Place a sheet of cling wrap over a bamboo sushi rolling mat.
- 11
Place a sheet of nori seaweed on the cling wrap.
- 12
Place a cup of sushi rice and spread it evenly and thinly with wet hands.
- 13
Fold over the other half of the cling wrap. Hold the ends of the cling wrap together and flip it over.
- 14
Spread 1 tsp of mayonnaise on the centre. *8
- 15
Layout imitation crab meat over the mayonnaise.
- 16
Place cucumber and avocado on the both side of the crab meat.
- 17
With both hands, pinch the edge of the bamboo sushi rolling mat and rest of the fingers holding down the fillings as you roll the mat.
- 18
When you completely rolled it, give it a squeeze with your both hands.
- 19
Slice the sushi roll into 6 pieces.