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California Sushi Roll Pizzas
Early Summer 2020
An impressive appetizer or main course with a side of salad, these crispy personal sushi pizzas are all texture, flavour and wasabi heat. If you want to keep it old school with the fake crab sticks à la traditional California rolls, do your thing. This recipe also happens to be gluten-free (but not so if you use imitation crab, as it contains gluten in the mix).
Serves 4
SWEET SOY SAUCE
1 tbsp (15 mL) brown sugar
3 tbsp (45 mL) tamari
1 tsp (5 mL) sesame oil
SUSHI RICE BASE
1 cup (250 mL) sushi rice
1 ⅓ cups (330 mL) water
¼ cup (60 mL) seasoned rice vinegar
2 tsp (10 mL) vegetable oil, plus more as needed
TOPPINGS
1 small avocado, thinly sliced
½ cup (125 mL) very thinly sliced English cucumber
1 container (227 g) freshly picked wild crab meat
4 tsp (20 mL) red lumpfish caviar (from a 50-g jar)
2 green onions, very thinly sliced, greens only
1 pkg (5 g) seasoned nori sheets, snipped into thin strips
1 Combine sugar and tamari in a small saucepan over medium he Bring to a boil and lower to a sim- mer until sugar has dissolved. Stir in sesame oil. Set aside to cool.
2 In a small bowl combine mayonnaise with wasabi. Set aside.
3 In a medium saucepan, combine rice and 1 ⅓ cups water; bring to boil. Cover and reduce heat to low; cook for 20 minutes or until rice is tender. With a fork, stir in rice vinegar.
4 Divide warm rice into 4 equal Sandwich each between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and press down with your palms to form a small, even 3- to 4-inch (8- to 10-cm) round personal pizza. Let cool completely in plastic wrap.
5 Heat a medium nonstick frying pan and drizzle with 2 tsp (10 mL) One at a time, fry sushi rice rounds on both sides, until golden, about 2 to 3 minutes total. Add a touch more oil as needed. Remove from heat.
6 Drizzle fried rice rounds with sweet soy sauce mixture. Top each with a schmear of wasabi mayo, then a layer of avocado slices and cucumber slices. Mound some crab on top of each, then another little dollop of wasabi mayo, a spoonful of caviar, and a sprinkle of green onion and nori. Serve at once.
Serves 4
