In the last decade, Japanese cuisine has conquered the whole world, and Russia is no exception. Japanese restaurants offer a varied menu. The most common dishes are sushi, rolls and soups. Rolls are a type of sushi. Their distinctive feature from land is that the filling with rice is wrapped in Nori seaweed, and not vice versa. The most favorite rolls are the famous "California", "Philadelphia", "Umagi rolls". After tasting the Japanese food, people began to wonder: “How to cook rolls at home?”.
Answering the question: how to cook rolls, one can easily say that this process does not take too much time, effort or money. It is important to purchase the necessary ingredients, utensils and cooking accessories.
Terminology
Before telling how to cook rolls at home, I want to devote you to some concepts:
Nori - Seaweed.
Mat - a bamboo mat that is designed specifically for twisting a roll.
Wasabi, in other words - Japanese horseradish, has a characteristic green color, adds spice to the dish and at the same time has antiseptic properties.
Pickled ginger is used for taste, as well as a kind of antiseptic.
How to cook rolls at home
In Japanese restaurants, the prices are quite high, so by purchasing the necessary products you can cook your favorite rolls at home. How to cook, I will tell you on the example of Philadelphia rolls. Following the instructions in detail, you will not distinguish the difference between home rolls and restaurant rolls.
To prepare two servings you will need: a glass of special Japanese rice, cucumber, avocado, a layer of Nori seaweed, red fish about 200 grams, Philadelphia cheese. As well as a bamboo mat and a well-sharpened knife.
Boil the rice in accordance with the instructions on the packaging. If you have not bought Japanese rice, then you can use regular round-grain. In order for it to have a sticky consistency, it should be digested a little to the state of boiled rice. The taste of these rolls will not differ much from products using Japanese rice.
Wrap the mat in a plastic roll in several layers. A seaweed layer is cut in half with scissors. Cut the cucumber into long sticks 5 mm wide. Peel and chop the avocados to match the cucumber. Thinly cut the fish into neat slices.
So, how to cook rolls:
- On the mat, closer to its edge, put half of the algae, spread the cooled rice on top and accept it tightly with your fingers. Rice should slide from one edge of the algae onto the mat.
- Then we turn the algae rice down on the mat. From above, in the middle of the algae, we smear a Philadelphia cheese a strip a centimeter wide.
- We spread cucumber and avocado on the cheese along the entire length.
- Then, using the mat, we begin to tightly twist the roll, giving it the correct rectangular shape.
- When you unfold the mat, you will see a tightly twisted long roll. Red fish is laid out on it. Then again with the help of the mat you compact the roll.
- The final step is to cut the roll with a sharp knife according to the number of red fish (in restaurant portions, the roll is cut into six parts). And shift the cut dish neatly onto the plate.
- The next portion is prepared in the same order.
Having learned how to cook rolls at home, you can please your friends and family by setting the table in the Japanese style. A special surroundings will be given by bamboo sticks, with which you will eat this dish. Ginger, soy sauce, wasabi and rice vinegar will help make the taste brighter . Since these additives are not for everybody, they should be served in separate bowls.
The composition of each roll is described in detail in all Japanese restaurants, so you can easily cook any other dish on the same principle. And you can buy some specific ingredients in a specialized store.
Good appetite. Delight yourself and your loved ones with culinary delights.