Home Made Sushi featuring a Volcano Roll and a Red Dragon (sort of) Roll
I get periodic sushi cravings and try to shop appropriately for making it at home cause I'm trying to be financially responsible when it's a choice between a tank of gas (or getting my grass cut) and going out for sushi.
I had bought an avocado a week (or more) ago, and I had a package of tempura shrimp in the freezer. I was going to make tempura shrimp onigiri, but ... plans change.
I had good quality salmon in my freezer and decided to risk raw salmon rolls. When I cut into my avocado it was bruised and yucky. I couldn't save any of it so it went into the garbage. Luckily, I bought a mesh bag of little avocados a few days ago so I cut into the ripest looking of the bunch.
After making four pretty boring regular rolls on Saturday: spicy raw salmon, spicy tempura shrimp, tamago (sweet omelet) and avocado, and baked teriyaki salmon and avocado, I challenged myself with two specialty rolls on Sunday.
Volcano Roll - There are different kinds of volcano rolls depending on where you go. Classically, julienned cucumber sticks and cream cheese fill the rolls. Then, they're sliced and topped with a mixture of mayonnaise, Sriracha and some sort of seafood. (I've had shredded fake crab legs but you can use diced raw shrimp, salmon and scallops, alone or in combination.) The topped rolls are placed in a toaster oven, or put under the broiler in your regular oven, until the topping is hot and bubbly and browned and the raw seafood is cooked. I've read that shrimp may take a bit longer to cook so you can partially saute them before adding them to the mixture. Or just use cooked and thawed shrimp.
Since I didn't have any cream cheese and I don't care for cucumber, I was going to use sliced avocado in my volcano roll filling. But I got distracted and used the strips of raw salmon that I was going to use in the red dragon roll. You can also use roasted asparagus, sweet potato or yam.
I didn't have any fresh green onion to garnish with so I topped the roll with frozen sliced green onion before baking. A bit wilted but they gave the volcano rolls a nice look.
Red Dragon Roll - This is a roll within a roll. The red dragon roll I've had at my favourite sushi restaurant is an inside out roll filled with tempura shrimp, sliced avocado and julienned cucumber. Thin slices of raw salmon are overlapped over the top. The green dragon roll is covered with overlapping thin slices of avocado. There's a rainbow roll which has alternating bands of salmon, sea bass (or white tuna) and avocado. The latter is my favourite but I didn't have a second kind of raw fish so I stuck to the salmon. The filling was just sliced avocado.
Cover the roll with a sheet of plastic wrap and use your sushi rolling mat to press down and firm up the salmon covering.
Leave the plastic wrap on the roll and cut through it so you don't mess up the salmon layer. Then, garnish with black sesame seeds or nigella seeds and volcano sauce (mayonnaise and Sriracha).
I had bought an avocado a week (or more) ago, and I had a package of tempura shrimp in the freezer. I was going to make tempura shrimp onigiri, but ... plans change.
I had good quality salmon in my freezer and decided to risk raw salmon rolls. When I cut into my avocado it was bruised and yucky. I couldn't save any of it so it went into the garbage. Luckily, I bought a mesh bag of little avocados a few days ago so I cut into the ripest looking of the bunch.
After making four pretty boring regular rolls on Saturday: spicy raw salmon, spicy tempura shrimp, tamago (sweet omelet) and avocado, and baked teriyaki salmon and avocado, I challenged myself with two specialty rolls on Sunday.
Volcano Roll - There are different kinds of volcano rolls depending on where you go. Classically, julienned cucumber sticks and cream cheese fill the rolls. Then, they're sliced and topped with a mixture of mayonnaise, Sriracha and some sort of seafood. (I've had shredded fake crab legs but you can use diced raw shrimp, salmon and scallops, alone or in combination.) The topped rolls are placed in a toaster oven, or put under the broiler in your regular oven, until the topping is hot and bubbly and browned and the raw seafood is cooked. I've read that shrimp may take a bit longer to cook so you can partially saute them before adding them to the mixture. Or just use cooked and thawed shrimp.
Since I didn't have any cream cheese and I don't care for cucumber, I was going to use sliced avocado in my volcano roll filling. But I got distracted and used the strips of raw salmon that I was going to use in the red dragon roll. You can also use roasted asparagus, sweet potato or yam.
I didn't have any fresh green onion to garnish with so I topped the roll with frozen sliced green onion before baking. A bit wilted but they gave the volcano rolls a nice look.
Red Dragon Roll - This is a roll within a roll. The red dragon roll I've had at my favourite sushi restaurant is an inside out roll filled with tempura shrimp, sliced avocado and julienned cucumber. Thin slices of raw salmon are overlapped over the top. The green dragon roll is covered with overlapping thin slices of avocado. There's a rainbow roll which has alternating bands of salmon, sea bass (or white tuna) and avocado. The latter is my favourite but I didn't have a second kind of raw fish so I stuck to the salmon. The filling was just sliced avocado.
Cover the roll with a sheet of plastic wrap and use your sushi rolling mat to press down and firm up the salmon covering.
Leave the plastic wrap on the roll and cut through it so you don't mess up the salmon layer. Then, garnish with black sesame seeds or nigella seeds and volcano sauce (mayonnaise and Sriracha).