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Homemade Sushi Rolls

Step by step insructions on how to make delicious sushi at home using fresh ingredients. Perfect for getting the whole family involved. This recipe shows you a basic filling of carrot, cucumber, avocado and tuna but you can use any filling combination that you like.
Prep Time30 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Total Time50 mins
Course: Main Course, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: entertaining, finger food, party food, sushi
Servings: 6
Author: Marie Muccio

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ cups sushi rice rinced
  • ½ cup rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tbs caster sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 6 nori sheets
  • 1 Lebanese cucumber julienned
  • 1 carrot julienned
  • 1 avocado sliced
  • 400 g can tuna drained
  • 2 tbs kewpie mayonnaise
  • soy sauce to serve

Instructions

For the rice

  • Place the rice and 3 and ½ cups water in a large saucepan over high heat. Bring to the boil then reduce heat to low. Cover with a lid and cook for 10-15 minutes or until rice is tender and the water is absorbed.
  • While the rice is cooking place the vinegar, sugar and salt to a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally until the sugar and salt have dissolved. Allow to cool until the rice is ready.
  • Once the rice is ready, remove from heat and add the vinegar mixture, gently stirring through with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until combined.
  • Spread your rice out onto a large try and allow to cool.

Filling

  • In a small bowl add the tuna and mayonnaise and mix together until combined. Set aside
    Have your veggies chopped and ready to go.

How to roll your sushi

  • Place a bamboo sushi mat on a clean work surface with the slats running horizontally.
    Place a nori sheet, shiny-side down, on the mat. Use wet hands or a rubber spatula to spread one-sixth of the rice over the nori sheet. Leave a 3cm-wide border along the edge furthest from you.
  • Place some cucumber, carrot, avocado and tuna mix along the centre of the rice.
    Roll the mat over to the middle to enclose the rice and filling. Gently remove the mat from over the top and using your finger dab some water on the exposed part of the nori sheet. Use the bamboo mat to contine to roll the sushi so that the rice and the filling is enclosed. Repeat with remaining nori, rice and fillings.
  • using a sharp knife cut each roll into 8 slices. Serve with soy sauce for dipping.

Notes

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