Dragon
Roll
By
Sushi Chef Extraordinaire Gary Chu, Osake, Santa Rosa, CA
Made
with:
Organic Sushi Rice cooked and cooled in advance
Ingredients:
*Burdock Root (sliced into thin sticks)
Cucumber (peeled, sliced into thin sticks)
Nori Seaweed (half sheets)
Sushi Rice
Avocado
Barbecued Eel
Flying Fish Roe
Tempura Shrimp (prepared in advance)
Shrimp
Prep Method:
Peel the shrimp. Turn the shrimp on its back belly facing
up. Lightly cut into each ring width wise of the shrimp to
weaken the muscle that holds it rigid and bent. Turn it back
over. Place on counter. Press, it makes it longer. Then tempura
the straightened shrimp and fry it and you have a little tail
to hold on to. Set aside to cool.
To
Make Dragon Roll:
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Step
1
- Sushi rice, nori seaweed on
sushi mat
Place
half sheet of nori seaweed in a horizontal position.
Spread rice on top all the way out to the edges, about
1/4 inch thick. Then flip it over. Place on sushi mat
with plastic wrap on it, not the thin saran wrap yet.
The sushi base is now seaweed side up, rice face down,
on top of plastic covered sushi mat. |
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Step
2
- Positioning sushi ingredients
Place
shiso (japanese leaves) in center of roll. Place burdock
root* sticks, criss crossed - like an X - in the middle
of the sushi. Place cucumber sticks in the middle of
the sushi. Place two, straight, tempura shrimp lengthwise
in the middle, on top of the cucumber, with tails extending
past each end of the seaweed. |
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Step
3
- Shaping the dragon roll
Make
sure Tails (tempura shrimp) are sticking out of each
end. |
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Using
sushi mat, start slowly rolling. |
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Then
roll it, shape it with a little bit of a square edge.
Rice is on the outside. |
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Step
4
- Placing bbq eel
Place
sliced bbq eel of three equal parts on each end, and
one in the middle. |
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Step
5
- Slice avocado
Slice
the avocado into four slices. |
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Step
6
- Placing avocado
Place
avocado in between the eel slices. |
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Step
7
- Slicing with saran wrap in place
Cover
with saran wrap. Shape with sushi mat. Slice over the
saran wrap. |
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Step
8
- Plating
Remove
saran wrap. Place the sliced dragon roll on the plate.
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Step
9
- Sauce
Spread
Soy Honey Sauce on plate. |
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Step
10
- Garnish
Place
three lumps of flying fish roe on top.
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Step
11
- Ready to serve Dragon Roll
*Burdock
roots are thc antenna" - get them in any oriental
specialty store. To learn more about Shiso leaves click
here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perilla
definition: shiso leaves |
