Quick & Easy Sushi Bake
Creamy crab layered over hot rice with spicy mayo, furikake and green onions. This quick and easy sushi bake is deliciously comforting and ready in 30 minutes! A great meal for the family for those sushi cravings at a less costly price!
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 16 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4 cups cooked short grain rice (aka sushi rice or calrose rice (or see below Notes for quantity of uncooked rice))
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar (or white vinegar)
- 2 tsp white granulated sugar (or cane sugar)
- 1 tsp salt
- 14 oz imitation crab meat (peeled into thin strands and chopped into 1 inch long pieces)
- 2 tsp furikake (or toasted sesame seeds and crushed roasted seaweed)
- 1/2 cup Japanese mayo (aka Kewpie mayo or sub with regular mayo)
- 1/2 cup cream cheese (light or regular both work)
- 1 green onion (finely chopped for garnish)
- 4 tbsp sriracha
- 4 tbsp Japanese mayo (aka Kewpie mayo or sub with regular mayo)
- 1 cucumber (thinly sliced, or sub with sliced avocado)
- 4 nori sheets (each sheet cut into 4 squares)
Instructions
- 1
First preheat the oven to 450 F. In a small bowl, combine rice vinegar, salt and sugar and mix until dissolved. This is your rice seasoning liquid.
- 2
Transfer hot cooked rice into a medium bowl. Then mix in the rice seasoning liquid with a rice paddle.
- 3
Then transfer seasoned rice to a lightly greased 9 x 11-inch baking dish. Firmly flatten and pack the rice down into the dish with a wet rice paddle. Sprinkle 1 tsp of furikake on top of the rice.
- 4
In a large bowl, combine shredded and chopped imitation crab meat with Japanese mayo, and cream cheese.
- 5
Add crab mixture top of rice. Spread it out evenly and firmly pack it in. Sprinkle the remaining furikake on top of crab meat mixture.
- 6
In a small bowl, combine Japanese mayo and sriracha to make a spicy mayo. (Not a fan of spice? Substitute with more mayo and omit the sriracha). Drizzle spicy mayo on top of crab layer.
- 7
Bake in the preheated oven at 450F for 15 minutes uncovered. Then broil at 500 F for 1 minute. If the sauce begins to char, place aluminum foil over top.
- 8
Lastly garnish the sushi bake with green onions. Slice with a wet oiled knife into 16 equal pieces and serve warm with a small sheet of nori and fresh cucumbers or sliced avocado.