Temari sushi (sushi balls)

Name: Temari sushi (sushi balls)
Yield: 12 balls
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups cooked white rice (sushi rice); 4 tbsp sushinoko powder; Toppings (grilled zucchini, avocado + smoked salmon)

Japanese cooking with Makiko @cook_12422096

Los Gatos, CA

Great for parties!

Japanese cooking with Makiko @cook_12422096

Los Gatos, CA

Great for parties!

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Ingredients

12 balls

2 cupscooked white rice (sushi rice)
4 tbspsushinoko powder
Toppings (grilled zucchini, avocado + smoked salmon)

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Steps

1

Add sushinoko powder to cooked rice while still warm. Mix well and let it cool. (Sushinoko powder - powdered sushi flavoring bought at Mitsuwa supermarket, Japanese store in San Jose)
2

Prepare toppings. Slice zucchini and grill them as desired. Olive oil is a nice touch when grilling. Gently salted and peppered. Completely cooled before making sushi balls. Peel avocado skin and take pit out, and mash them. Add drops of lemon juice to avoid avocado getting brown and salt mashed avocado (just a hint). Cut smoked salmon in small pieces.
3

Spread Saran Wrap (or a similar product) over palm (about twice as big as your palm). Place a topping right in the middle. Place 2 tbsp of flavored rice on top, and wrap it to a size of golf ball.
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FYI - Sweet sour sushi rice is usually made with cooked white rice mixed with vinegar, sugar, salt (+ konbu, a type of sea weed). I personally like using Sushinoko powder to avoid rice getting too wet. Specially, it’s easy!
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FYI - Temari means Japanese traditional handballs.
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FYI - Toppings are usually (traditionally) sashimi fish. But you could try anything you like - cooked meat, pickled veggies, corned beef, ham, SPAM, cooked egg etc. Try your ideas and let me what you liked!!