Temari sushi (sushi balls)

Name: How to cook Temari sushi (sushi balls) - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12 balls
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Japanese cooking with Makiko

Temari sushi (sushi balls)

Great for parties!

Ingredient

Food ration :

12 balls

2 cups

cooked white rice (sushi rice)

4 tbsp

sushinoko powder

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Add sushinoko powder to cooked rice while still warm. Mix well and let it cool. (Sushinoko powder - powdered sushi flavoring bought at Mitsuwa supermarket, Japanese store in San Jose)

* Step 2

Prepare toppings. <Grilled zucchini> Slice zucchini and grill them as desired. Olive oil is a nice touch when grilling. Gently salted and peppered. Completely cooled before making sushi balls. <Avocado + smoked salmon> Peel avocado skin and take pit out, and mash them. Add drops of lemon juice to avoid avocado getting brown and salt mashed avocado (just a hint). Cut smoked salmon in small pieces.

* Step 3

Spread Saran Wrap (or a similar product) over palm (about twice as big as your palm). Place a topping right in the middle. Place 2 tbsp of flavored rice on top, and wrap it to a size of golf ball.

* Step 4

FYI - Sweet sour sushi rice is usually made with cooked white rice mixed with vinegar, sugar, salt (+ konbu, a type of sea weed). I personally like using Sushinoko powder to avoid rice getting too wet. Specially, it’s easy!

* Step 5

FYI - Temari means Japanese traditional handballs.

* Step 6

FYI - Toppings are usually (traditionally) sashimi fish. But you could try anything you like - cooked meat, pickled veggies, corned beef, ham, SPAM, cooked egg etc. Try your ideas and let me what you liked!!

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