Japanese firmly established in the lives of our compatriots.Some of us love sushi, rolls, sashimi, soups, kebabs and other exotic dishes.Others refer to them cautiously - if only out of fear of eating raw fish.Whatever it was, indifferent to the Japanese rolls is not there.Today, we try to make the most popular of them - roll "California" - at home.
Whether you have decided to organize a theme party in the Japanese style, surprise households than something new, or simply do not trust the quality of products from the cafe, the main thing - set out to make an exotic dish with their hands.Use the recommendations set forth in this article, you do roll "California" at home is not worse than the Japanese restaurant!Or maybe even better.
little history
before a roll "California", will talk about how there was this dish.Chef invented it one of Tokyo's restaurants named Ichiro Masita.His institution rolls were very popular, but one day the boss noticed that not all visitors, especially tourists from America, like seaweed, which is wrapped in a filling.And then Ichiro started cooking rice rolls out, thus concealing strips of seaweed inside.This "Americanized" version called maki sushi, and his popularity has stepped far beyond Japan.
What's inside?
classic recipe is to use avocado as one of the main ingredients.But if you are preparing to roll "California" in the home is no longer the first time, you can experiment and add the other ingredients: cucumber, carrots, lettuce or even mango - especially some gourmets say the taste of the product.
In general, the traditional ingredients of "California" are the following: sticky rice, nori (sheets of seaweed dark green), crab meat (ideally better to use it instead of crab sticks), avocado, a special Japanese mayonnaise and caviarFlying Fish (She also found under the name "tobiko caviar").For accurate wrapping rolls need a special mat, and even beforehand, pour into a bowl of water - to wet your hands in the process of food.
Cooking rolls at home
«California» preparing a snap, and filled his little hand, you will be treated with the mat is not worse zapravskogo Sushi master.So, put all the ingredients in front of him on the table and start the cooking process.
- Dip your fingers into a bowl of water.
- Take a portion of the prepared rice and a little squeeze it in your hand before sealing.
- Pour grits on a sheet of nori (it should lie with the shiny side down, and brushed - to you) and evenly distribute it across the surface.A layer of rice should be slightly beyond one long edge of the sheet and an income of about a centimeter to the other end - to make it easier to roll roll.
- Carefully turn over a sheet of rice down - we are ready to "playground" for placing the remaining ingredients.
- middle of doing "track" of Japanese mayonnaise.Over
- spread pieces of crab meat.
- Top - peeled and sliced thin slices of avocado.
- With mat folded as roll proglazhivaya it and even trim the sides.
- turn around and admire the snow-white surface of the rice roll - roll "California" in the home is almost ready!
- sprinkle with tobiko caviar, and with a sharp knife cut into pieces a la carte.
Here's how easy preparing nice and tasty roll "California"!
