smoked salmon sushi roll

Salmon

Smoked Salmon Sushi Roll

Homemade salmon roll made with sushi rice, nori, and smoked salmon. This is a very basic and easy recipe for making sushi. It might take a while to learn how to make a perfect roll, but you'll have fun trying! Add wasabi (Japanese horseradish) for a good kick!

Ingredients

2 cups japanese sushi rice
6 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
6 sheets nori (dry seaweed)
2 tablespoons wasabi paste
8 ounces smoked salmon, cut into long strips
1 cucumber, peeled and sliced
1 avocado - peeled, pitted and sliced

Directions

Soak rice for 4 hours. Drain rice and cook in a rice cooker with 2 cups of water. Rice must be slightly dry as vinegar will be added later.
Immediately after rice is cooked, mix in rice wine vinegar; spread rice on a plate until completely cool.
Place 1 sheet of seaweed on a bamboo mat; press a thin layer of cool rice on seaweed, leaving at least a 1/2 inch top and bottom edge of the seaweed uncovered. This is for easier sealing later. Dot some wasabi on rice; arrange smoked salmon, cucumber, and avocado on rice about 1 inch away from the bottom edge of seaweed.
Slightly wet the top edge of seaweed; roll up tightly from the bottom to the top edge with the help of the bamboo mat. Cut salmon roll into 8 equal pieces and serve. Repeat for other rolls.