Be adventurous in the kitchen during these last few days of 2024 and try your hand at making your first batch of sushi. It will be a sure-fire party stealer
Chef Sagar Sarkar offers a recipe for Seafood Futomaki Rolls that feature crab sticks and salmon with avocadoes.
You can try a vegetarian version by substituting the tuna with an equal amount of chopped cucumbers and the salmon with equivalent thinly sliced carrots and the crab sticks with julienned green capsicum.
Chef Sarkar has been the brand chef since March 2022 at Bellona Hospitality Services Limited, the company behind the brand Phoenix Mall of Asia. He has worked earlier with Twin Turtle Hospitality, The Leela Palaces Hotels Resorts, Yauatcha and Hakkasan restaurants in Mumbai.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Belladona Hospitality Services
Seafood Futomaki Roll
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 4-6 crab sticks, shredded or cut into long strips
- 100-150 gm ready-to-eat salmon, thinly sliced into strips or small pieces
- 100-150 gm tuna, thinly sliced or diced
- 1 medium avocado, thinly sliced or cut into strips
- 1-2 tbsp wasabi mayonnaise (it can be made by mixing wasabi paste with mayonnaise)
- 1-2 tbsp spicy mayonnaise (it can be made by mixing sriracha or chilly sauce with mayonnaise)
- 1 cup uncooked short-grain, white rice
- 4 nori sheets
- Pickled ginger, for serving
- Wasabi, for serving
- Panko crumbs, for serving
- Edible flowers, for garnish
- Spring onions, for garnish
Method
- Cook the rice in a cooker so the water is absorbed into the rice and keep aside to cool.
- Using a sushi mat to spread sushi rice onto the first of the nori sheets.
Layer with 1 to 1½ crab sticks, 25-40 gm salmon, 25-40 gm tuna, few strips avocado.
Roll tightly into a futomaki roll.
Slice into portions.
- Repeat for the next 3 nori sheets and remaining ingredients.
- Garnish the top of the rolls with the spicy mayo, wasabi mayo, edible flowers, spring onion and serve sprinkled with panko crumbs along with pickled ginger, wasabi on the side.