Rolls - a dish of Korean and Japanese cuisine, it is prepared from rice with the addition of various fillings, and then twisted into pressed algae and cut into mini-rolls. Usually served with sauce. There are "mosaic" and "color" rolls, as well as "sushi-assorted" - it all depends on the national and local traditions of cooking.
This dish was also liked by Russian citizens. You can buy rolls not only in specialized restaurants and shops, but also in ordinary supermarkets, for example, in Pyaterochka or Auchan. You can cook them yourself in your kitchen, for this you do not have to be a qualified Japanese sushi chef. The filling for rolls at home can be varied: from crab sticks, avocado, cheese, smoked fish, fresh vegetables, etc.
The most popular types of rolls are:
- “California” - avocados, cheese, crab meat are required components. Roll sprinkled with flying fish caviar "Tobiko". Often they are stuffed with tuna, salmon, shrimp and fresh cucumber.
- The second most popular is considered "Philadelphia" - "turned" out by rice. Cream cheese with caviar, cucumber and green onions is used as a filling. Outside, the roll is wrapped in salted salted salmon.
- And the third place of honor is awarded to “Unagi” - small rolls wrapped in nori. It is usually seasoned only with smoked eel.
Options for toppings for rolls
From crab meat and cucumbers
Products: crab sticks, pickled gherkins, feta cheese, fish roe, sesame seeds and mayonnaise. Proportions rely on your own discretion and priorities. All ingredients are cut and mixed. Next, boiled rice is laid out on the nori, on it is the filling for the rolls.
At home, preparing a dish is very simple. Then the sheet is carefully folded into a roll, crumbled in sesame seeds and cut into portioned pieces. Serve with soy sauce.
Homemade meat filling for rolls
It is prepared from Armenian pita bread, minced meat, eggs, onions, cheese and herbs. First, onion with minced meat is passaged until half-cooked. Eggs are beaten separately and poured into the meat filling. After 10 minutes of frying, greens, salt and pepper are added.
The mass is cooled, then grated cheese is added there. Egg-meat mixture is laid out on pita bread, distributed evenly and wrapped in sausage. All rolls wrapped in pita bread are stacked on a baking sheet and baked for 10 minutes. Here is a tasty and nutritious filling for rolls at home.
From avocado
For cooking you will need: rice, avocado, carrots, fresh cucumber, fish caviar (jar). As well as curd cheese (packaging), slightly salted fish (salmon, salmon, about 400 g), soy sauce.
All components are cut into thin strips. Sprinkle the avocado with lemon juice so that it does not darken. At first, boiled rice is laid out on the nori sheet, then the sheet is turned over, coated with curd cheese and put the fish and vegetable mass - rolled up. Inverted rolls are no less tasty.
The types of fillings for rolls are diverse, it all depends on the imagination. You can combine and arrange products with each other, add mayonnaise, ketchup, sour cream or other sauces. Deliciously obtained from seafood: mussels, shrimp. The simplest filling for rolls at home can be from omelet and smoked chicken. Vegetarian sushi consists exclusively of vegetables, mushrooms and fresh herbs. Sweet rolls of fruit and cheese are prepared for children.