Salmon Roll Recipe (Salmon Maki)

If you have leftover salmon, you can have fun with it by making salmon roll or salmon maki. This will be a great nutritious snack idea because of fish oil benefits. This is considered a very healthy recipe that can be served during a party as well. You can make it even more fancy by adding other ingredients such as cucumber, crab meat, fish roe, etc.

Ingredients

2 seaweed sheets
100 g salmon
400 g cooked sushi rice
Optional: cream cheese (eg. Philadelphia), wasabi-paste, fish roe, cucumber, crab meat
To serve: soy sauce, wasabi paste, pickled ginger
for 24 pieces ( 4 maki rolls )

Instructions

1. Cut salmon into thin stripes.

2. Cut seaweed sheet into halves.

3. Put the seaweed sheet on the bamboo mat. Then, spread rice approximately 2 cm wide and 0,5 cm high on the seaweed sheet.

4. Put a tiny bit or a desire amount of wasabi onto the rice.

5. Place salmon in the middle of the rice.

6. Wetten the end of the sheet a with water.

7. Roll the sheet with the bamboo mat and "glue" the wet ends of roll together.

8. Cut the roll into appr. six pieces.

Tip : You can wetten the knife with water mixed with vinegar in order to prevent the rice from sticking at the knife