Sushi with Salmon and Avocado

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 24 | Cook: 20min
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Sushi with salmon and avocado is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the fruit-vegetable category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 0.5 ripe Avocado
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp wasabi paste
  • 125 g fresh salmon fillet
  • 2 roasted nori sheets
  • 400 g sushi rice
  • 600 ml water
  • 1 piece kombu seaweed (about 8 x 8 cm)
  • 4 tbsp Rice vinegar
  • 0.5 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp sugar

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Peel one half of the avocado and cut it lengthwise into eight strips, immediately drizzle with lemon juice.

  2. 2.

    Cut the fish lengthwise into 0.5 cm thick sticks.

  3. 3.

    Halve the nori sheets crosswise.

  4. 4.

    Spread a little wasabi paste on each nori sheet, place them in succession on a bamboo mat, top each with 1/4 of the rice, salmon and avocado, and roll into four sushi rolls. Cut each roll into six equal pieces.

  5. 5.

    Basic sushi rice recipe:

  6. 6.

    Wash the rice thoroughly under running water in a sieve until the water runs clear.

  7. 7.

    Add rice, water and kombu to an unlined steaming pot and steam at 100°C for 18 minutes in an electric steamer, stirring occasionally.

  8. 8.

    Heat the rice vinegar and mix with salt and sugar.

  9. 9.

    Transfer the rice to a bowl, remove the kombu. Pull a bamboo stick through the rice diagonally while slowly pouring in the seasoning mixture. Fan the rice with a fan to cool it quickly to room temperature and give it a nice shine.