Frozen Futomaki Fat Sushi Rolls for Sports Festivals or Setsubun
- 360 ml White uncooked rice
- 3 sheets Nori seaweed, whole sheets
- 2 tbsp Vinegar
- 2 tbsp Ume vinegar
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 as much (to taste) Egg, crab sticks, green beans etc.
- I used ume vinegar to make slightly pink colored sushi rolls.
- If you don't have any ume vinegar just 4 tablespoons of regular vinegar.
- Cook the rice.
- Mix the ingredients together.
- Swirl the ingredients onto the hot cooked rice, and mix it in using a cutting motion to make the sushi rice.
- Cool the rice down.
- While the rice cools, make the fillings ready.
- You can use cooked egg, crabsticks, green beans, spinach, carrots, sakura denbu (pink dyed flaked sweetened codfish), canned tuna or anything you like.
- Put a sheet of nori on a sushi mat and spread sushi rice on it thinly.
- Leave a 2 cm gap on the top edge.
- Put on the filling ingredients and roll it all up.
- Leave the roll with the seam side down for a while to let it settle.
- Don't try to cut through in one motion.
- Use a sawing motion.
- Keep a moistened paper towel nearby and wipe the blade between each cut.
- Wrap each cut roll in plastic wrap, and freeze.
- On the day you need them, defrost each roll for 2 and a half minutes at 500 W, then leave with the wrap on for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Make the other things to pack in the bento box in the meantime.
- Pack everything in the bento box and it's done.
rice, vinegar, ume, sugar, salt, much
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/188280-frozen-futomaki-fat-sushi-rolls-for-sports-festivals-or-setsubun (may not work)