Roll-Your-Own California Rolls
Roll-Your-Own California Rolls

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California roll is an easy sushi roll to make at home. Learn how to make this popular sushi roll that is filled California Roll is a kind of sushi roll (we call makizushi in Japanese) containing crab meat (real or I'm glad you think this post is helpful and I hope you will enjoy making your own California rolls. The California roll is made with crab meat, either cooked crab or imitation crab meat, plus avocado and cucumber.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook roll-your-own california rolls using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Roll-Your-Own California Rolls:
  1. Make ready For the rice:
  2. Make ready 2 cups rice cooked to package instructions (sushi rice is ideal, but I used jasmine yesterday because it's what I had on hand)
  3. Make ready 5 Tablespoons sushi seasoning vinegar
  4. Take For the krab:
  5. Prepare 1 pound surimi (krab), rough chopped. (If it's previously frozen, you'll want to defrost completely and squeeze out any excess water before chopping.)
  6. Prepare 1/2-2/3 cups mayonnaise (If you have Kewpie mayo, which is the kind they usually use in sushi restaurants, then skip the sugar below.)
  7. Take 1 teaspoon sugar
  8. Get 1 Tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
  9. Prepare All the rest of the stuff you'll need:
  10. Make ready 1 large ripe avocado (or 2 medium) cut into 1/4" thick strips vertically
  11. Take 1/2 an English (hothouse) cucumber, seeded and cut into thin 3 or 4 inch long strips
  12. Get Korean style seasoned and toasted seaweed (see pic below)
  13. Take Optional:
  14. Take toasted sesame seeds
  15. Make ready wasabi and soy sauce
  16. Take sushi ginger

Make sure all the ingredients are prepped and ready to go/ Cut cucumber and avocado At Kitchn, we know how important it is to find recipes that are worth your time. That's why every tutorial — like this one — features recipes that have been. How the California roll originally got created. It actually does have a very interesting history.

Instructions to make Roll-Your-Own California Rolls:
  1. Cook the 2 cups of rice according to package instructions, fluff the rice and let it cool slightly (but not completely) before adding your sushi seasoning vinegar and mixing it thoroughly throughout the rice in a fluffing kind of motion. You don't want to stir to mix because your rice will turn into a gummy mess. - - Set aside.
  2. Mix your krab ingredients together and set aside.
  3. Cut your cukes and avos and set aside.
  4. If you get the large gim or toasted nori, cut the sheets in half widthwise.
  5. Lay it all out on the table and let people assemble, roll, and eat. It doesn't have to be a neat restaurant-style handroll roll. Just roll it up like a burrito and enjoy with wasabi and soy sauce and some sushi ginger if you like. :) - - Alternatively, you can just make easy rice bowls with all the ingredients and either omit the nori or tear it up in small pieces and sprinkle it on top.

Lay a sheet of plastic wrap over the roll. Moisten your sushi knife with vinegared water and cut the roll exactly in the center (leftmost picture above). This post may contain affiliate links. Serve your California Rolls with soy sauce and wasabi, and maybe a little sriracha if you like it spicy. This California Roll is probably the easiest roll to start with, but the possibilities of sushi rolls are.

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