California Roll Sushi Bowl – Match Foodie Finds

This straightforward California roll sushi bowl is full of recent elements that’ll fulfill all of your sushi cravings! It’s principally a deconstructed California roll positioned into serving bowls, making for a straightforward lunch you could throw collectively identical to that.

Should you’re a fan of poke bowls, the basic California roll, or all issues sushi, this California sushi bowl is for you! We love the tasty mixture of seasoned crunchy cucumber, tender crab, and sticky rice topped with a scrumptious spicy mayo sauce. It’s shortly turn into my go-to different to sushi takeout 🥰🥰🥰

California Roll Sushi Bowl – What You’ll Want

• Recent cilantro:  we love tossing our sticky rice with recent cilantro for an additional pop of taste
• Sesame oil: sesame oil is a staple in sushi recipes. It provides a singular nutty taste
• Nori: you’ll want sheets of nori (dried seaweed) to crumble into your sticky rice for that basic sushi style.
• Sticky rice: in case you’re undecided easy methods to make sticky rice, we’ll go over that within the FAQ part!
• Mini cucumbers: we selected mini cucumbers for his or her crunchiness and smaller measurement.
• Ginger: ginger is used so as to add taste to the cucumbers on this recipe. Freshly grated is finest.
• Soy sauce: you’ll be able to’t have a sushi recipe with out soy sauce! This will get absorbed by the cucumbers to create the sushi taste you already know and love.
• Cooked crab: Use both cooked crab or imitation crab meat for this sushi bowl, relying in your desire.
• Mayonnaise: Mayo is the wealthy and creamy base for the spicy mayo sauce.
• Chili garlic sauce: As an alternative of constructing a spicy sriracha mayo sauce, we opted for chili garlic sauce, which has a bit extra taste.

Variations and Substitutions

Similar to all sushi, there are such a lot of totally different ingredient combos to strive. That mentioned, we encourage you to search out the right combo that resembles your favourite sushi roll. 

For instance, in case you’re not a fan of crab, you’ll be able to swap it for any cooked or uncooked fish (so long as it’s sushi-grade, in fact!). Recent sushi grade salmon could be BOMB on this recipe. 

You possibly can additionally add quite a lot of tasty fixings like creamy avocado, inexperienced onion, and black sesame seeds,  and even go for a vegetarian choice and swap the crab for crispy tofu.

Our Go-To Approach to Cook dinner Sticky Rice

To make the sticky rice, we advocate utilizing our Immediate Pot sticky rice recipe. Comply with these straightforward steps: 

• First, rinse 1.5 cups of raw rice underneath chilly water for 2-3 minutes.
• Add the rice to your Immediate Pot, after which add 1.5 cups of water. Stir and ensure all the rice is roofed in water.
• Shut the lid and cook dinner the rice underneath excessive strain for 4 minutes.
• As soon as the timer goes off, let the rice naturally launch for 8 minutes. After that, launch the remainder of the strain and fluff the rice with a fork.
• Let it cool for a couple of minutes earlier than utilizing it in your sushi bowl.

Storage

Retailer any leftover California roll bowls in an hermetic container and retailer within the fridge for as much as 1 day — sushi expires quick, particularly in case you’re utilizing uncooked meat. 

We don’t advocate freezing this recipe.

Serving Recommendations

Whereas this straightforward sushi bowl may simply be a whole meal by itself, it by no means hurts so as to add extra taste with some aspect dishes! This chilly meal would pair excellently with this Immediate Pot Candy Potato Curry Soup or Pork Dumplings.

You’d additionally actually get pleasure from it with this Sesame Soy Kale Salad, Rainbow Sesame Noodle Salad, or Ginger Pea Salad.

California Roll Sushi Bowl Recipe

This California roll sushi bowl recipe is stuffed with nice elements like crunchy greens, nori seaweed, tender crab meat, and creamy avocado to create the last word deconstructed sushi bowl that’s easy to make and straightforward to like!

Prep:30 minutes minutes

Cook dinner:4 minutes minutes

Fats 36

Carbs 38

Protein 5

Substances

Rice

• ½ medium white onion diced
• 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
• ½ cup chopped recent cilantro
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 3 sheets nori
• 3 cups cooked sticky rice*

Crab

• 6 oz. cooked crab or imitation crab meat chopped into small items
• 1 tablespoon recent lemon juice

Directions 

• Put together the rice. Add the white onions, rice vinegar, cilantro, salt, and sesame oil to a bowl and toss all the elements collectively. Put aside.

• Put together the cucumbers. Add all the elements for the cucumbers to a bowl and toss till the cucumbers are coated within the dressing. Put aside.

• Put together the crab. Toss the crab meat with lemon juice till coated. Put aside.

• Combine the sauce. Combine the mayo and the garlic chili sauce in a bowl till easy.

• Add the cooked rice to the onions and toss to mix. Crumble the nori sheets into the rice and toss once more.

• Evenly distribute all the rice, cucumbers, crab, and avocado into bowls and high with the spicy mayo. Serve instantly.

Ideas & Notes

• Sticky rice instructions:
  Rinse 1.5 cups of raw rice underneath chilly water for 2-3 minutes.
• Add the rice to an Immediate Pot and add 1.5 cups of water. Stir and ensure all the rice is roofed in water.
• Cook dinner the rice underneath excessive strain for 4 minutes after which naturally let the rice naturally launch for 8 minutes. Launch the remainder of the strain and fluff the rice.
• Put aside.

Diet information

Energy: 492kcal Carbohydrates: 38g Protein: 5g Fats: 36g Fiber: 6g Sugar: 4g