Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sunny Arizona
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Making California Rolls
California rolls are surprisingly easy (and cheap!) to make. My friend Judy introduced me to homemade California rolls back in college, when she delighted a group of us with a crash course dinner in sushi-making. From then on, I was hooked. I've never been a big fan of California rolls, the bland Americanized child of real Japanese sushi, BUT I'm a huge fan of homemade rolls. It's easy, fresh, and most of all, super fun to make with a group of friends. On those rare nights when all my roommates were free from schoolwork, we'd celebrate by getting together for a California roll dinner. It was always fun and definitely among my favorite memories of college life.
Because I'm all about knowledge sharing, here's a step-by-step tutorial to making California rolls so you too can host a fun, sushi-making get together:
Ingredients: Seaweed wrap, imitation crab meat, rice, mayonnaise, rice vinegar, avocado, carrots, cucumber
Preparation:
1) Cook rice and when it's done, pour a few spoonfuls of rice vinegar in to flavor. This is essential.
2) Dice the crab meat into little bits. Then, add just enough mayonnaise to give the bowlful of crab bits a creamy (but not too creamy!) texture.
3) Mash an avocado into a spread.
4) Thinly cut carrots and cucumbers.
Step One: Spread about half a spoonful of rice onto the seaweed wrap. Mash the rice down as needed.
Step Two: Spread avocado over the rice.
Step Three: Spread the crab meat.
If you want to be fancy, you can add spam instead.
Step Four: Place cucumber and carrots to your liking.
Step Five: Roll! If you're greedy like me, it won't close all the way when you roll it.
And there you go! Homemade California Rolls. They'll be a lot bigger than what you would find at restaurants and you can customize it to your liking. Now take what you learned and host a get together of your own!
Because I'm all about knowledge sharing, here's a step-by-step tutorial to making California rolls so you too can host a fun, sushi-making get together:
Ingredients: Seaweed wrap, imitation crab meat, rice, mayonnaise, rice vinegar, avocado, carrots, cucumber
Preparation:
1) Cook rice and when it's done, pour a few spoonfuls of rice vinegar in to flavor. This is essential.
2) Dice the crab meat into little bits. Then, add just enough mayonnaise to give the bowlful of crab bits a creamy (but not too creamy!) texture.
3) Mash an avocado into a spread.
4) Thinly cut carrots and cucumbers.
Step One: Spread about half a spoonful of rice onto the seaweed wrap. Mash the rice down as needed.
Step Two: Spread avocado over the rice.
Step Three: Spread the crab meat.
If you want to be fancy, you can add spam instead.
Step Four: Place cucumber and carrots to your liking.
And there you go! Homemade California Rolls. They'll be a lot bigger than what you would find at restaurants and you can customize it to your liking. Now take what you learned and host a get together of your own!
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