California Roll
- 2 cups sushi or short grain rice
- 2 cups water , plus extra for rinsing rice
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 16 ounces imitation crab meat
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 4 sheets nori
- 1 cucumber
- 2 carrots
- 1 cup napa cabbage or regular cabbage
- 1 avocado
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
- Rinse rice several times with cold water until it runs clear. This helps it become sticky, please don't skip this step.
- Put the rice and 2 cups of water into a pot and bring to a boil, uncovered.
- Once it boils, reduce the heat to low and cook covered for 15 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, for 10 minutes. Do not peek at it.
- Put the rice vinegar, sugar and salt in a small bowl and microwave on high for 30 to 45 seconds.
- Add the vinegar mixture to the rice in an even distribution and fold to combine. Try not to make the rice mushy.
- Let it cool completely in as thin a layer as you can while you prepare and make your rolls.
- Put imitation crab meat and mayonnaise in a small food processor and pulse until it is combined and is minced.
- Alternately you can chop it all together and mix in the mayonnaise.
- Julienne the carrots (I used a rainbow of carrots), napa cabbage, and cucumber (peel and remove the seeds of the cucumber first)
- Slice the avocado thinly.
- Assembly:
- On top of a piece of parchment paper about twice the length of your nori, put one cup of rice on a sheet of nori, spread rice to the edge. Sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon sesame seeds.
- Put 1/2 cup of julienned vegetables (1/4 cup cabbage, 1/4 cup of carrots and cucumber.. eyeball this since you won't have a measuring cup to fit the veggies)
- Put 1/4 of sliced avocado along the side of the veggies in a fanned out pattern.
- Put 1/4 of the crab mixture on top in a log
- Roll the nori into a log with the edges just meeting by a 1/4 - 1/2 inch or so using your parchment paper, to roll it closed and tight.
- After the roll meets, fold the parchment in to make bottoms of the burrito and roll the rest of the paper to close it tightly.
- Slice the parchment burrito in half.
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