Smoked Salmon Sushi Salad
Notes: Up to 1 day ahead, make sushi rice salad, cover, and chill; bring to room temperature to serve. Garnish with cucumber if desired. Speciality ingredients are avaliable at Japanese markets.
How to Make It
Step 1
1
Rinse a 1- to 2-cup bowl with cold water and lightly pack 1/4 of the sushi rice salad into it. Invert onto a plate. Repeat to shape remaining portions.
Step 2
2
Cut nori sheets into quarters. Moisten sliced avocado with rice vinegar.
Step 3
3
Sprinkle sushi rice salads equally with shaved bonito. Alongside each, arrange 1/4 of the nori, avocado, salmon, pickled ginger, and radish sprouts. Sprinkle servings with tobiko caviar.
Step 4
4
To eat as sushi, put some of each ingredient on a piece of nori and add chili mayonnaise to taste; fold nori over filling. Or eat as a salad with a knife and fork, adding chili mayonnaise to taste.
Step 5
5
Nutritional analysis per serving without mayonnaise.
Ingredients
6 sheets roasted (or toasted) nori (about 7 by 9 in.)
1 firm-ripe avocado (about 1/2 lb.), peeled, pitted, and sliced
Seasoned rice vinegar
1 to 2 tablespoons shaved bonito (optional)
1/2 pound thin-sliced smoked salmon, cut into strips
About 1/4 cup sliced pickled ginger
About 1 ounce radish (or daikon) sprouts, rinsed and drained
2 to 3 tablespoons tobiko caviar
Directions
Step 1
1
Rinse a 1- to 2-cup bowl with cold water and lightly pack 1/4 of the sushi rice salad into it. Invert onto a plate. Repeat to shape remaining portions.
Step 2
2
Cut nori sheets into quarters. Moisten sliced avocado with rice vinegar.
Step 3
3
Sprinkle sushi rice salads equally with shaved bonito. Alongside each, arrange 1/4 of the nori, avocado, salmon, pickled ginger, and radish sprouts. Sprinkle servings with tobiko caviar.
Step 4
4
To eat as sushi, put some of each ingredient on a piece of nori and add chili mayonnaise to taste; fold nori over filling. Or eat as a salad with a knife and fork, adding chili mayonnaise to taste.
Step 5
5
Nutritional analysis per serving without mayonnaise.
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