GREEN BEAN SUSHI BOATS
What To Cook Today recipe - Malaysian/Indonesian
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- About 20 green beans (, trimmed and finely sliced at an angle)
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- Salt and pepper
- 1 tsp grated lemon zest
- 1 cup freshly cooked sushi rice
- 2 small sheets of toasted nori (, each cut into 4 strips lengthwise)
- Wasabi paste
- Soy sauce
- Pickled ginger
Instructions
- 1
Blanch the green beans in a boiling water for about 2 minutes, then drain off the water and rinse with cold water immediately. Toss with sesame oil and sesame seeds. Season with salt and pepper to taste and mix in the lemon zest
- 2
Dampen your hands with clean cold water. This is to prevent the rice sticking to your hands. Divide the rice into 8 batches. Shape each batch into an oval using your hands. Carefully wrap a strip of nori around each piece of rice, trim off any excess in length, and leave the extra sheet that is sticking out on top, then stick together at the join using a couple of crushed grains of rice and it works like wonder
- 3
Top each sushi with the seasoned green beans, dab with wasabi on top. Serve with soy sauce and pickled ginger on the side if you wish