Avocado and Shrimp Sushi (CL)

By goldens64

Maureen Callahan, Cooking Light

JANUARY 2006

Ingredients

• 2 cups uncooked short-grain white rice
• 1/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar
• 1 tablespoon wasabi (Japanese horseradish)
• 1 avocado, peeled and mashed
• 1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
• 24 large shrimp, cooked, peeled, and halved crosswise (about 8 ounces)
• 6 nori (seaweed) sheets
• 12 chives
• 12 (7-inch-long) julienne-cut seeded peeled cucumber strips

Details

Servings 6
Adapted from myrecipes.com

Preparation

Step 1

Prepare rice according to package directions. Stir in vinegar; cover and cool to room temperature.

Combine wasabi and avocado in a small bowl, and set aside. Combine cilantro and shrimp in another small bowl; toss well.

Cut off top quarter of nori sheets along short end. Place 1 nori sheet, shiny side down, on a sushi mat covered with plastic wrap, with long end toward you. Pat 3/4 cup rice mixture evenly over nori with moist hands, leaving a 1-inch border on one long end of nori. Spread 1 tablespoon avocado mixture over rice.

Arrange 8 shrimp pieces, 2 chives, and 2 cucumber strips along bottom third of rice-covered nori.

Lift edge of nori closest to you; fold over filling. Lift bottom edge of sushi mat; roll toward top edge, pressing firmly on sushi roll. Continue rolling to top edge; press mat to seal sushi roll. Let rest, seam side down, for 5 minutes. Slice crosswise into 8 pieces. Repeat procedure with remaining nori, rice mixture, avocado mixture, shrimp mixture, chives, and cucumber.