Plum Blossom Sushi Rolls
- 180 ml Hot cooked white rice
- 1 tbsp Plum vinegar
- 2 tsp Sugar
- 1/3 tsp Red food coloring
- 2 sheets + 1/4 sheet Nori seaweed sheets (the type for making sushi rolls)
- 1/3 can Canned tuna (80g)
- 1/2 tbsp Mayonnaise
- Cut one sheet of nori into 5 even strips.
- Cut another into four even strips, and set aside one of those 1/4 sheet strips together with the first 5 strips.
- Prepare a small bowl of water for wetting your fingers.
- Set aside these items together with the ingredients marked with .
- Drain the tuna very well, and mix with the mayonnaise.
- Spread a layer of the cooked white rice evenly over the sheet of uncut nori, and mix the remaining rice with the ingredients marked with .
- Using a sushi rolling mat, fill the 5 nori strips with the pink rice, and roll to make 5 rolls.
- (Don't roll into completely closed tubes.
- Leave them open a little as shown.)
- Spread the tuna mixture onto the 1/4-sheet strip of nori and roll it up tightly.
- Set 2 of the rolls of pink rice in the center of the sheet of nori spread with white rice, and then set the tuna roll on top.
- Place the remaining 3 pink rice rolls so that the tuna roll is in the center and the pink rice rolls form flower petals around it.
- Wrap up the whole roll in the sushi rolling mat, pressing together firmly.
- Use a wet knife to cut the roll into slices, and you're done.
- There will be a little bit of the pink sushi rice left over, so you can press that into a moistened cookie cutter and then push it out again to form cute shapes.
white rice, vinegar, sugar, red food coloring, rolls, tuna, mayonnaise
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/156374-plum-blossom-sushi-rolls (may not work)