Smoked Salmon Sushi Roll

“A very basic and easy way to make sushi rolls.”

Ingredients:

• 2 cups
  
  Japanese sushi rice


• 6 tablespoons
  
  rice wine vinegar


• 6 sheets
  
  nori (dry seaweed)


• 1
  
  avocado – peeled, pitted and sliced


• 1
  
  cucumber, peeled and sliced


• 8 ounces
  
  smoked salmon, cut into long strips


• 2 tablespoons
  
  wasabi paste

Directions:

• Soak rice for 4 hours. Let rice and cook in a rice cooker with 2 cups of water. Rice is be slightly dry as vinegar will be added later .


• Immediately after the rice is cooked , mix in 6 tablespoons rice vinegar to the hot rice. Spread rice on a plate until completely cool .


• Showing 1 sheet of seaweed on bamboo mat , press a thin layer of cool rice on the seaweed. Leave at least 1/2 inch above and below uncovered edge of the algae. This is later for easier sealing. Dot a little wasabi on the rice. Arrange cucumber , avocado and salmon to the rice. Ask them about 1 inch from the bottom edge of the algae.


• Slightly wet the top of the algae. Roll from the floor to the top with the help of the bamboo mat firmly . Cut roll into 8 equal pieces and serve. Repeat for other roles .

Smoked Salmon Sushi Roll