Servings: 10 sushi balls
Temari Sushi 手毬寿司
Temari sushi are colourful little ball-shaped sushi that are a perfect finger-food for any holiday celebration, party, or any other event, even for your everyday lunch! They’re very easy to make and don’t require any rolling mat.
Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked sushi rice
- 1 tsp kombu dashi powder or about 2inch(5cm) Kombu strip
- ½ cup rice vinegar
- 1½ tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 slice smoked salmon thinly sliced
- 1 egg fried flat
- 1 mini cucumber thinly sliced
- 1 small radish thinly sliced
- 1 tsp fish roe for toppings *2
Instructions
- Cook the sushi rice following Chopstick Chronicles' Sushi Rice recipe*1
Preparing ingredients
- Slice the mini cucumber and a radish to set aside.
- Crack the egg and fry it flat in a frying pan. When it is cooled down, cut out 2 rounds using the 6.5cm diameter cookie cutter.
- Score the belly side of the prawn to flat them.
Shaping Temari Sushi
- place your favourite topping in the centre of a piece of cling wrap.
- Place a scoop of rice on top of the topping by using a 1/3 cup then seal it together with the cling wrap and softly squish and shape it into a ball.
- Continue to make sushi balls with various toppings.
- Remove the cling wrap and place them on a serving plate.
- Using a pair of chopstick or a tweezers, decorate the top of each temari sushi.
Notes
*1 Perfect Sushi Rice Recipe
*2 other toppings suggestions - finely chopped scallions, grated ginger, salted sakura cherry blossom flower, yuzu peel.
Nutrition
Calories: 189kcal, Carbohydrates: 33g, Protein: 6g, Fat: 3g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 94mg, Sodium: 294mg, Potassium: 112mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 169IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 25mg, Iron: 1mg