Eel rolls: quick and easy

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

For a long time, connoisseurs of sushi and rolls can enjoy their favorite delicacy of their own preparation. In any supermarket you can now find nori necessary for making sushi, a wide range of sauces. And looking into a large hypermarket, you can take delicacies, such as mussels, shrimp or eel. Rolls with eel are a worthy example of how you can surprise guests.

Quick and easy roll recipes

As you know, rolls are a kind of sushi. The main difference is determined by the ingredients: rolls can contain fruits, vegetables, meat, and sushi - only fresh fish. The former are served both cold and hot, the latter only cold. Such variability of ingredients suggests a variety of recipes.

To prepare simple rolls, it is enough to have nori, rice, anything as a filling, a bamboo napkin.

All rolls wrapped in nori are prepared according to the same principle:

1. Add dressing (0.3 ml vinegar + 0.5 tsp s alt + 0.5 tsp sugar) to fluffy rice cooked in the usual way and stir.
2. Take a sheet of nori (for large piecesyou need a whole, for medium - half, for very small - 1/3 sheet);
3. Rice is laid out evenly (3 mm) on it and distributed, not reaching the edges by 1.5 cm.
4. The filling is distributed. It can be: red fish (or shrimp) with cheese and cucumber; ham (sausage, crab sticks), egg, radish, carrot, cucumber; chicken meat, cucumber, curd cheese. Options are limited by imagination, taste, budget. But if you are a connoisseur of sushi, it is still recommended to try eel rolls.
5. With the help of a bamboo napkin, everything is wrapped in a roll and cut into pieces.

Recipe for eel rolls

If you have ever cooked rolls or are not afraid to experiment, then you can try to implement the following recipe. Rolls with eel are considered by many to be one of the most delicious - eel gives a piquant taste to the dish.

According to the original recipe, in addition to traditional rice, nori and cucumber, you will need tobiko caviar (flying fish) and curd cheese. These rolls are prepared the other way around: first a layer of rice is laid out, then nori, then a layer of cheese, cucumber and caviar. All this is rolled up with a napkin. The final stage is to wrap the resulting roll with eel and cling film for sealing. It remains to cut into equal portions.

Sesame and unagi go great with eel rolls. This sauce can be bought at the store, or you can make your own: fish broth (60 g), red wine (40 g), soy sauce (10 g), sugar (50 g).

It's not much to cook rolls with eel according to the recipe at homeharder than normal.

Life hacks in cooking rolls

For rolls, of course, you can find special Japanese rice, but regular round rice is also perfect.

For rice, you need to use special rice vinegar. In the absence of such, you can independently prepare an analogue (this dressing is described above).

Choose only fresh fish, trusting your sense of smell and looking at the expiration date.

Cut the fish thinly with a very sharp (eg ceramic) knife. This is done against the fibers, at an angle of 45⁰. Eel is better to take smoked.

When cooking rolls, if rice is laid out as the bottom layer, for convenience, it is recommended to put cling film on a napkin.