It is difficult to overestimate all the advantages of Japanese cuisine. It is both balanced, and tasty, and incredibly healthy! The fact is that it is dominated by products such as fish and algae, vegetables and ginger, as well as rice, which is a source of carbohydrates. In order to enjoy a gentle and piquant taste, it is not necessary to look for an institution where the rolls will be fresh and tasty. You can cook them yourself at home! How to make rolls at home - cheap, but very tasty? We will tell you right now!
Cooking features
What are rolls? These are small neat rolls based on algae and rice. A variety of fillings give the taste of rolls. Most often these are seafood and fish, but you can also find sweet rolls, and those for which chicken is used. Vegetables complement the filling. Most often, avocados and cucumbers can not be dispensed with when cooking and without cream cheese.
What else do you need to know for a novice chef who decided to cook rolls?
First, you will need a bamboo mat - to shape the rolls. Secondly, with special attention you need to approach the choice of rice - you only need one that contains a high amount of starch, otherwise the rolls will fall apart. Serve with wasabi, ginger and soy sauce. It is best to prepare sticks, but you can use more familiar devices.
Rice for rolls: the secret of cooking
Experts say: the first thing you should do when deciding to cook this Japanese dish at home is to cook rice properly.
For 250 grams of rice you will need: three tbsp. tablespoons of rice vinegar, a couple teaspoons of salt and two and a half tablespoons of sugar. Rinse the cereal thoroughly - until the water becomes clear. After that, it needs to be thrown into a colander, where it should be left for 60-70 minutes. Then the rice needs to be transferred to a deep saucepan and filled with water - you will need 500 milliliters. Under a closed lid, bring the product to a boil, boil it for five minutes. After this, the heating temperature must be reduced and bring the rice to readiness. Remove from heat. After 15 minutes, sugar and salt should be added to the roll rice. Once it has cooled, you can start cooking.
Cucumber and Crab Sticks
Of course, the first filling that comes to mind when it comes to rolls is fish. But with what can you make rolls, except for fish? Try making a simple filling of pickled cucumbers and crab sticks. For cooking, you will need the following ingredients:
- two small pickled cucumbers;
- small packaging of crab sticks;
- feta cheese or feta - to taste;
- sesame seeds - 100 grams;
- mayonnaise (it is best to cook homemade) - two tablespoons;
- fish roe (you can take any that you find) - four tbsp. spoons.
Cooking method
The recipe is incredibly simple: first of all, you need to cut cucumbers and sticks with not very wide stripes. Cut the cheese into small pieces. Products should be combined, add caviar and mayonnaise to them. Then you need to take a sheet of nori, put rice, filling on it and carefully roll everything up. After this, the roll must be cut into pieces, each of which must be rolled in sesame.
Meat and pita bread
What can I do rolls with, for example, for breakfast? Try making a meat-filled dish that uses thin pita bread instead of nori sheets. We promise - the dish will turn out very tasty and satisfying! For such rolls you need to take:
- pita - 3 pcs.;
- minced meat - 300 grams;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- eggs - 5 pcs.;
- cheese - 200 grams;
- salt, pepper, herbs - to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Recipe
Peel and chop the onion, fry it until transparent in vegetable oil, add minced meat. While the minced meat is cooking, beat the eggs, salt and add them to the pan. When everything is ready, add herbs and spices, mix and remove the filling from the heat in a minute. While the meat is cooling, prepare the cheese - grate it on a coarse grater and add to the cooled filling for rolls. According to the recipe, then you need to cut the pita bread in half, put the meat in the middle, spread over the entire surface, curl up the sausage. After that, ready-made rolls should be put on a baking sheet and held for 10 minutes in the oven. Then it remains only to cut each into pieces and serve, sprinkled with cheese.
Shrimp and Avocado
Among the simplest toppings for rolls is a mixture of shrimp and avocado. For cooking, you need to take 200 grams of shrimp and one avocado, a small amount of mayonnaise. On a layer of rice you need to lay a thin layer of mayonnaise, put a strip of shrimp, lay avocado sticks next to it. It remains only to wrap the roll and serve it on the table!
Crab sticks and avocado
Shrimp is not the only product avocados can combine with in rolls. The ideal "partner" - crab sticks. In order to prepare such rolls, it is necessary to prepare:
- cottage cheese - to taste;
- crab sticks - a small package;
- avocado - 1 pc.
Cooking
Rolls with avocados and crab sticks are prepared in minutes. You just need to cut the fruit into long thin strips, crab sticks too - lengthwise into two parts. Put rice, cheese, crab sticks and avocado on rice. Rolls are ready!
Salmon and Cream Cheese
A traditional taste familiar to every roll lover. Making such rolls is incredibly simple. You just need to take:
- slightly salted salmon - 200 grams;
- fresh cucumber - 300 grams;
- cream cheese - 200 grams.
If desired, you can add a little red caviar.
Step cooking
Cooking these rolls will not take you long:
- Free the salmon fillet from the bones, cut into thin strips.
- Cut the cucumbers with the same stripes.
- Cheese should be cut, the form can be any.
Next, you need to put rice on the mat, evenly distribute it, put the nori, the filling and roll a neat roll. You just have to cut the resulting roll, wrap each piece of salmon and garnish with caviar.
Cheese and ham
Rolls with such a filling can be cooked both with rice and pita bread. The latter option is ideal for parties and holidays. You will need the following ingredients:
- pita - 1 pc.;
- ham - 200 grams;
- cheese (preferably hard) - 200 grams;
- bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- lettuce;
- homemade mayonnaise - 100 grams;
- garlic and pepper - to taste;
- lemon juice - a teaspoon.
How to cook rolls
Ham, pepper and cheese should be cut into thin strips. After that, in a separate bowl you need to combine mayonnaise, chopped garlic, lemon juice and pepper. On the lavash greased with the resulting sauce, lay out the filling. Ready roll for an hour and a half, put in the refrigerator. Before serving, the rolls need to be cut into portioned slices.
Bacon
An ideal option for a festive dinner is a hot roll with bacon. In order to cook it, you do not need a lot of ingredients. Take:
- boiled tongue (preferably pig) - 1 pc.;
- pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
- mustard - 6 tablespoons;
- bacon (required slicing) - 200 grams.
Experts advise preparing three tablespoons of potato starch, a small amount of vegetable oil.
Cooking hot rolls
The first thing to do is put the bacon in the lap, put nori and rice on top. The next stage is the filling. Roll the roll, brew it in starch and fry in a pan. While the rolls are hot, they need to be cut and served.
Chicken and Cucumber
Thinking about what you can do rolls with? Try to cook such a Japanese dish with the usual filling - from chicken. To do this, you will need to prepare the following components:
- poultry fillet - 200 grams;
- fresh cucumber - 300 grams;
- ground paprika, garlic - to taste;
- mayonnaise - 100 milliliters;
- pita;
- a small amount of vegetable oil.
The method of cooking rolls with chicken
The boiled fillet must be cooled and cut into thin strips. Cucumbers should be cut into neat long sticks, the thickness of which should be about three to five millimeters. Chicken should be put in a frying pan with heated oil, sprinkled with paprika and fry until beautiful crust.
Lavash needs to be greased with a mixture of mayonnaise and garlic, put the filling on top, wrap the roll, cut into portions. Cucumber can be replaced with other vegetables, for example, sweet pepper. Finished rolls can be sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Bacon and salmon
Want to try something out of the ordinary? Think, with what it is possible to make rolls - original and spicy? Try lightly salted fish and bacon in a Japanese dish. You can be sure that this combination will not leave anyone indifferent. All you need is:
- chopped bacon - 6 slices;
- salmon - 60-70 grams;
- fresh cucumber - half a small;
- cream cheese and green onions to taste.
Slices of bacon overlap, gently distribute rice on top. By the way, you can make the rice layer even with your fingers dipped in cool water. After that, it remains only to cut the fish and cucumber into thin long strips, add the onion feather and cheese. What to do next - you already know. Done!
Eel and scrambled eggs
What can I do rolls at home? Try making a roll that combines scrambled eggs and smoked eel. Such rolls do not take very long to prepare, and the result is amazing and the taste buds! The first thing to do is prepare the products. Take:
- smoked eel - 150-170 grams;
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- butter, the fat content of which is 82.5% - 20 grams;
- a small amount of sugar and soy sauce.
The secret of cooking
Let's start with the omelet. We break the eggs, add sugar and sauce to them, beat well. In a pan, melt the butter and fry the omelet. Ready omelet should be cut into thin long strips. No less thinly need to cut the eel. Putting a roll: nori, rice, scrambled eggs, eel. Enjoy your meal!
Mussels and Tuna
If you are confident in your culinary skills, try making rolls with mussels and tuna. The taste will be incredibly delicate and at the same time spicy. For cooking, you need the following ingredients:
- peeled mussels - 200 grams;
- any cream cheese you like is 100 grams;
- sweet pepper - 200 grams;
- canned tuna - half a can.
Cooking in stages
For convenience, we will write a recipe for the preparation of such rolls step by step. So:
- We combine tuna with cheese.
- We thoroughly wash the pepper, remove the seeds and the stalk. The pulp is cut into long strips.
- We spread the rice, and on it - a strip of tuna and cheese.
- Put the boiled mussels on the cheese.
- Add strips of sweet pepper.
- We form a roll, divide it into portions.
- You can decorate the rolls with the remaining tuna.
Please note: you can replace sweet pepper with any other vegetable.
Interesting combinations
What other products can I use to make the filling for the rolls? Experienced housewives suggest trying the mixture:
- cucumber and wasabi;
- shrimp, salmon and avocado;
- tuna, avocado, wasabi;
- omelet, sesame, tofu cheese, bell pepper (or cucumber);
- smoked chicken, pickled cucumber and avocado.
- salmon, cucumber and flying fish roe;
- crab sticks, pepper and homemade mayonnaise.
Do not be afraid to experiment - believe in your strength and try rolls with new tastes. It is not necessary to repeat what you have tried before; you can create a dish with a unique taste.