Every day there are more and more fans of such a Japanese dish as sushi. Moreover, the variety of fillings used for making rolls is really impressive.
Everyone will find a recipe to their liking. One of the most original in terms of taste is considered to be roll hot. Try to cook it too!
Another option for preparing this dish is the hot Tempura roll. These rolls are especially delicious when eaten warm. Try to cook this original dish and please your family and friends with it!
The peculiarity of this recipe is in tempura batter, which gives a new taste to things that have already become familiar. Be sure to try this dish!
Hot rolls - photo
Having tasted or for the first time, you will never forget it. One of two things, either you like it and you become a lover of Japanese food, or you will never try again. But there are few of them. The main secret is to properly serve the same sushi or rolls. Just today we will learn how to cook hot rolls at home. To prepare this roll, you need the following ingredients:
- rice (200 gr.),
- nori sheets (2 pcs.),
- shrimp (300 gr.),
- cucumber (1 pc.),
- processed cheese (1 pc.),
- rice vinegar,
- milk (1 tbsp.),
- flour (1 tablespoon),
- egg,
- breadcrumbs.
Recipe with photo step by step:
Boil rice in boiling water for 15 minutes. Then we prepare vinegar for rice: a spoonful of rice vinegar, 5 tsp. sugar, 2 tsp salt. Mix everything until the liquid becomes homogeneous. Pour the vinegar over the rice and turn it over with a spoon, but do not stir. Boil and peel shrimp. Cucumber and cheese cut into thin strips.
We place a sheet of algae on the makisa.
We begin to lay out the rice in such a way that on one side the edge is 2 cm free.
Then, in the center, we begin to lay out the shrimp along the sheet. Place cucumber slices next to it. Put cheese slices on top, as shown in the photo.
Finally, we proceed to the most important step - wrapping the roll. This should be done carefully and slowly, with the help of makisa. Grease the edge of the seaweed with vinegar.
Now, prepare the batter: mix the egg with milk and flour.
Dip the finished roll in batter and roll in breadcrumbs. Next, send it to a well-heated pan in vegetable oil. Fry on all sides until golden brown.
Place on a paper towel or paper towel to remove excess oil.
Cut the roll into 6 pieces. Hot rolls are ready! They are usually eaten with soy sauce, Wasabi mustard and ginger. Enjoy your meal!
At home, the treat is prepared from round or long rice. To make the cereal sticky, after boiling it is mixed with rice vinegar. Rolls can be stuffed with slightly salted fish, crab meat, shrimp. Fresh cucumbers, sweet peppers, avocados give a pleasant taste to the dish. The sauce is made from mayonnaise, cream or curd cheese.
The rolls are wrapped in thin nori sheets made from seaweed. The blanks are dipped in batter and rolled in breading. The dough is made from wheat or rice flour, corn starch. Chicken eggs, water and spices are also added to it.
Rolls are fried in vegetable oil, decorated with caviar, herbs or sesame seeds. The dish is served with soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger.
The popular dish was invented by Europeans based on traditional cuisine.
The dish is served hot. Rolls go well with curry sauce and spicy pastas.
If desired, a Japanese-style lunch can be supplemented with chicken broth, funchose and fried seafood.
More recently, rolls in our country were considered exotic. Now you can buy them literally at every step. Moreover, you can make just one call and after a while, ready-made sushi will be delivered directly to your home. And, looking at these works of Japanese culinary, somehow few people think that rolls are not at all difficult to cook on their own at home.
1. Everything is very simple, the main thing is to follow the cooking technology. Pour 1 cup of rice with 1.5 cups of cool water, cover the pan with a lid and bring to a boil. Immediately after boiling, (try to open the lid as little as possible, do not stir!) reduce the heat to a medium level (closer to the minimum) cook for 5 minutes. Then reduce the heat to a minimum and leave for another 12 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, do not open the lid for 15 minutes. Rice for rolls is ready. It will not boil, will not burn and will be quite sticky.
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. Next, you need to season the rice with a special filling. Pour 1 tbsp into a mug. l rice vinegar.
3 . Add 1 tsp of sugar + half a teaspoon of salt. Stir until dissolved.
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. Now pour the rice in a thin line and mix it with the dressing. It may seem that this amount of filling is not enough, it is not.
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. The mat can be wrapped with cling film, because in this version of homemade rolls, the rice is on the outer layer and can get stuck between the rods of the bamboo mat. If you don't have a mat, use a regular kitchen towel, also wrapped in cling film.
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. Place the nori sheet on the mat with the smooth, shiny side down. Depending on the size of the desired rolls, you can cut the sheet in half.
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. Spread the rice in a thin layer over the rough surface of the sheet, leaving a free edge of 1-1.5 cm. So that the rice does not stick strongly to the hands, we moisten the fingers with rice vinegar.
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. Then carefully take the edges of the nori sheet in the place where there is no rice and turn it over so that the smooth side of the seaweed is on top and the rice is on the bottom.
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. Lay out a thin strip of fresh cucumber. With dense cucumbers, you can not remove the peel and not remove the seeds. Just cut the cucumber into long strips in the form in which it is.
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. Then lay out the curd cheese (replacing Philadelphia cheese) with a strip near the cucumber.
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. On the other side of the cucumber, lay out a strip of red fish.
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. We twist the rolls, starting from the edge where there is no rice. Gradually, lifting the mat, we twist the nori sheet with the filling into a tight roll. You can make it round or square as you wish.
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. Roll the roll in sesame seeds. Cut into 6-8 pieces. It is important to cut the rolls beautifully, the knife must be very sharp. You can also pre-lubricate the blade with rice vinegar.
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. Lay out the nori sheet smooth side down. Spread the rice by dipping your fingers in the rice vinegar. Leave the free edge of the sheet. From above, at a distance of 1.5 cm from the edge of the rice, lay out the strips of cucumber and fish.
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. We turn the roll.
3
. Top with cream cheese.
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. Then roll the roll in sesame seeds. Cut with a sharp knife into 6-8 pieces.
In Japan, the preparation of rolls has long been elevated to the rank of art. Every little thing counts here. But real masters are especially reverent in the choice of products. They should not only be fresh, but also complement each other well, creating a real harmony of taste in the mouth. So before you start cooking your own rolls, you need to choose the right ingredients.
Rice
Not every type of rice is suitable for making rolls. In order not to bother too much, you can simply purchase special varieties of Japanese rice. Now they are sold in a specialized department of almost any chain store. Of course, such a product is not too cheap.
In fact, ordinary rice is also suitable for rolls, which is much cheaper than special rice. The main thing is that the rice should be moderately sticky, but at the same time not too soft. Therefore, the best option is to buy round-grain varieties, and the best of them is ordinary Krasnodar round rice. What you really shouldn't do is buy clear and parboiled rice.
Wasabi
What we have no problem with in our stores is wasabi. True, in our country you can only buy a cheap imitation of this seasoning. Real wasabi, even in their homeland, not every Japanese can afford. The main components of the imitation are horseradish and mustard, flavored with a few more ingredients. It's certainly not exactly wasabi, but it tastes very much like it.
Immediately advice: it is better to buy seasoning in powder. Such wasabi just needs to be diluted with water and the seasoning is ready. Ready-made wasabi in tubes can also be used for rolls, but they are much more likely to contain various not-so-useful preservatives.
rice vinegar
To make the rolls tasty, you should not save on vinegar. For this dish, it is best to take Japanese rice vinegar, the so-called su. Unlike our sour and rather hot vinegar, su has a pleasant slightly sweet aftertaste. Plus, it's not sharp at all.
Nori
An integral ingredient for rolls are sheets of seaweed or, in other words, nori. They are sold in the form of large dark sheets. Their size is different, but the most optimal width of such a sheet is 20 cm or so.
Ginger and soy sauce
Rolls, of course, can be made without these two ingredients, but serving them at the table without pickled ginger (gari) and soy sauce is somehow wrong.
As a rule, rolls are eaten dipped in soy sauce. By and large, there is not much difference which of the varieties of sauces to buy. The main thing is that it be a product of natural fermentation and that it be packaged in glass containers. In all other respects, you can completely rely on your taste.
As for ginger, there is nothing complicated here either. You just need to make sure that the product is fresh. Yes, and one more thing. Ginger comes in white and pink. Fans of spicy food are better off taking pink ginger, and the rest - white. Although in fact the taste of ginger does not really matter. After all, it is eaten in order to remove the taste sensations from the just eaten roll before sending the next one to the mouth.
There are subtleties in the preparation of rolls. Professional masters also have their own tricks. But at first, you can get by with standard rules, especially since there are not very many of them.
How to cook rice properly
About how to choose rice, it has already been written above. Now some of the nuances of preparing and cooking cereals.
First, rinse the rice. First, you just need to fill it with water and shake your hands a little to clean it of debris and husks. Even if the rice is clean, the water will still take on a milky white hue. This water must be drained, and then again “squeeze” the grits with massaging movements, pour water over and repeat the entire operation. You need to do this 5-7 times. This will be quite enough for the water to remain clear after the procedure.
Rice should be cooked in a fairly deep pan. Water should be poured at the rate of 1 part of rice 1.5 parts of water. Cook cereals should be on low heat. When the rice has absorbed all the water, the rice should be removed from the heat and left to infuse under a closed lid for about 15 minutes. Only after that, rice for rolls can be considered ready.
Stuffing and dressing for rolls
Cooking rice is half the battle. It still needs to be filled. For dressing, mix salt, sugar and vinegar. At the same time, su (rice vinegar) can be warmed up a little, then the seasonings dissolve faster.
The rice that has not yet cooled down should be put in a fairly wide container. Gently, in a thin stream along a wooden spatula, add the resulting dressing mixture to the rice, constantly stirring with the same spatula. It is advisable to stir the rice with horizontal movements so that each grain is saturated with the dressing mixture. Then the container should be covered with a paper towel and left for a while.
Now you can do the stuffing. Most often, fish is used as such in rolls, which is cut into thin and long slices. If other products will be used for the filling, then, as a rule, they must also be cut into strips.
How to roll rolls?
The simplest version of homemade rolls is hoso-maki or thin rolls. Of course, for their preparation it is necessary to acquire a special bamboo mat - makisu.
First, place a mat on the table and prepare a bowl of water and vinegar to wet your hands. Place half a sheet of nori on the mat. Lay with the rough side up. Put four tablespoons of rice on the seaweed. Spoons should be full - with a slide. With hands moistened in water with vinegar, spread the rice over the surface of the nori sheet so that a free strip of about 10 mm wide remains on top, and about 5 mm on the bottom. The result should be a layer of rice about 7 mm thick.
It makes no sense to talk about laying out the filling. It is simply laid out in layers or paths in fig. But then the fun begins - rolling the roll. To do this is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. First you need to align the bottom edge of the nori sheet with the edge of the mat. While holding the filling, lift the makisa and begin to roll the blank for the rolls with forward and upward movements. When the roll is rolled up to the end, the edges of the mat should be slightly bent and roll the roll back and forth a little. There is no need to put pressure on him. After this procedure, the workpiece can be considered finished.
How to cut rolls?
Cutting even rolls from a roll is also a kind of art. It is best to do this following the traditions of Japanese roll-making masters. First you need to moisten the knife with a mixture of water and vinegar. Such a kind of "lubrication" will allow the knife to pass through the rice, as if through butter. The prepared roll must be cut first in the middle, and then each part is divided into three or four equal rolls. Here, in fact, is the whole trick.
There are many types of rolls. There are simple recipes, there are complex ones, there are popular ones, and there are unfamiliar ones. Basically, anything can be done at home. It is better to start with the simplest or, in extreme cases, the most popular varieties.
Perhaps these are the simplest rolls that even a child can cook in Japan. All they need is rice, nori and salmon prepared according to the recipe described above. Sake Maki is incredibly easy to make. To do this, lay rice on half of the nori sheet with a layer 5-7 mm thick, stepping back from the edge of about 1 cm. In this case, it is understood that not the entire area of the algae sheet is filled with rice, but only half of it. In the middle of the rice layer, a “path” is laid out of salmon cut into oblong pieces. After that, the workpiece is folded into a roll, and then cut into 8-16 rolls.
By the way, according to the same principle, you can make rolls with shrimp or crab meat. The only caveat is that the peeled shrimp must first be fried in oil for 5 minutes, and then stewed with a small amount of soy sauce (you can add a little sherry) until the liquid is completely evaporated.
The preparation of this type of rolls, of course, cannot do without rice, nori and rice vinegar. For the filling, you will need the following ingredients:
There is no point in describing the preparation of rice in this case. This has been discussed in sufficient detail in the previous sections.
Place a halved sheet of nori on a bamboo mat, and spread a thin layer of rice (about 4 tablespoons) on it. Help yourself with a mat to turn the nori rice down and lay it on the mat again. Lubricate the shiny side of the seaweed leaf with Philadelphia cheese, and put thin slices of cucumber on it. After that, you need to roll the roll in the above way.
Put the roll blank on the edge of the mat, and put a layer of thinly sliced red fish in front of it. In width, it should correspond to the resulting roll, and in length be such as to cover all the rice. Using a rug, “wrap” the roll blank with red fish and roll it lightly.
It remains to cut the roll first in half, and then each of the parts into another 3 or 4 parts. Philadelphia rolls are ready.
The birthplace of this variety of rolls is not Japan, but the United States. In principle, that is why they are called "California". To prepare them, you will need a lot of additional components, in addition to rice, vinegar and algae leaves:
The cooking technology of "California" is in many ways similar to that used when working with "Philadelphia". After all, both varieties of rolls are turned inside out, i.e. in finished products, nori is not outside, but inside the mini-roll.
To begin with, rice is laid out on a half sheet of algae. A thin layer of caviar is placed on top of it. Now the nori sheet with the stuffing laid out should be turned upside down, and its smooth surface should be greased with a thin layer of cheese. Next, lay out thin slices of avocado, cucumber and trout. After that, the workpiece can be rolled up into a roll, give it a more square shape with a rug and cut into 6 or 8 rolls.
These rolls can be slightly modified by using mayonnaise sauce instead of cheese (preferably Japanese) and crab meat instead of trout or with it.
Rolls can be served not only in the "raw" form. Even in Japan, this dish is often fried or baked. Rice for such rolls is prepared in the same way as for all other varieties. And besides him and nori for Tempura you will need:
Spread the rice on top of the nori and brush generously with cream cheese. Spread the flying fish roe evenly on top and lay out the fish and cucumber cut into strips. Roll the workpiece into a roll.
Now you need to prepare the batter by mixing the egg with tempura flour in a long rectangular container. The last product can be bought, but you can cook it yourself. To do this, mix wheat and rice flour, starch, garlic powder, black pepper and baking powder.
Dip the prepared roll in batter, roll in breadcrumbs and fry on all sides in vegetable oil heated in a frying pan. Only after that cut the workpiece into 6 pieces and serve immediately.
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That's actually all. Of course, there are countless varieties and recipes of rolls in the world. But they are all done according to the principles that were described above. Well, you can experiment with the fillings, adding those ingredients that you like best. Bon appetit!
Every day there are more and more fans of such a Japanese dish as sushi. Moreover, the variety of fillings used for making rolls is really impressive.
Everyone will find a recipe to their liking. Hot roll is rightfully considered one of the most original in terms of its taste. Try to cook it too!
Another option for preparing this dish is the hot Tempura roll. These rolls are especially delicious when eaten warm. Try to cook this original dish and please your family and friends with it!
The peculiarity of this recipe is in tempura batter, which gives a new taste to things that have already become familiar. Be sure to try this dish!