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California Rolls
Photo: Pille R. Priske

California Rolls

8 ingredients 9 steps fandom
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

709
Calories
10g
Protein
36g
Fat
86g
Carbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Avocado 1 medium (150g) 240
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Vegetable 1 tbsp (14g) 120
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Plum 1 medium (66g) 30
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Cucumber 1/2 cup sliced (52g) 16
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Seaweed not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups cooked sushi (short-grain) rice
  • Pinch of sea salt
  • 2 tbls. brown rice vinegar
  • 2 tsps. ume plum vinegar (available in health food stores)
  • 1 tbl. mirin (rice cooking wine)
  • Carrots, avocados, cucumbers, green onions or any choice of
  • vegetables for centers
  • Nori sheets (seaweed paper)

Directions

1

Cook rice with sea salt.

2

Mix the vinegars and mirin and add to rice while it is still hot. Blend and refrigerate.

3

Make the sushi vegetable centers by dicing or cutting vegetables into sticks.

4

Use any combination of vegetables that you like.

5

Using a straw sushi mat or a piece of plastic wrap, place a sheet of nori flat.

6

Add about 2 tablespoons of the rice mixture on the nori, arranging it about an inch from one edge.

7

Place some of the vegetable mixture in the rice and roll tightly.

8

Place the roll in plastic wrap and refrigerate. When ready to serve, cut into 1 1/2- to 2-inch pieces.

9

Serve with tamari or soy sauce that has been mixed with a small amount of wasabi horseradish.

Recipe sourced from fandom

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