Plum Blossom Sushi Rolls

Name: Plum Blossom Sushi Rolls
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 180 ml Hot cooked white rice; 1 tbsp ☆ Plum vinegar; 2 tsp ☆ Sugar; 1/3 tsp ☆ Red food coloring; 2 sheets + 1/4 sheet Nori seaweed sheets (the type for making sushi rolls); 1/3 can Canned tuna (80g); 1/2 tbsp Mayonnaise

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I saw a TV program that showed flower-shaped sushi rolls, and I wanted to try making it myself. The ones on the TV program used kampyo (strips of reconstituted gourd) and vegetables for the center of the flowers, but I like tuna, so I made a tuna version.

In Step 5, set the rolls of pink rice so that the open sides are tilted a bit toward the inside of the big roll. Recipe by Nonpu

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

In Step 5, set the rolls of pink rice so that the open sides are tilted a bit toward the inside of the big roll. Recipe by Nonpu

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Ingredients

1 serving

180 mlHot cooked white rice
1 tbsp☆ Plum vinegar
2 tsp☆ Sugar
1/3 tsp☆ Red food coloring
2sheets + 1/4 sheet Nori seaweed sheets (the type for making sushi rolls)
1/3 canCanned tuna (80g)
1/2 tbspMayonnaise

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Steps

1

Cut one sheet of nori into 5 even strips. Cut another into four even strips, and set aside one of those 1/4 sheet strips together with the first 5 strips. Prepare a small bowl of water for wetting your fingers. Set aside these items together with the ingredients marked with ☆. Drain the tuna very well, and mix with the mayonnaise.
2

Spread a layer of the cooked white rice evenly over the sheet of uncut nori, and mix the remaining rice with the ingredients marked with ☆.
3

Using a sushi rolling mat, fill the 5 nori strips with the pink rice, and roll to make 5 rolls. (Don't roll into completely closed tubes. Leave them open a little as shown.)
4

Spread the tuna mixture onto the 1/4-sheet strip of nori and roll it up tightly.
5

Set 2 of the rolls of pink rice in the center of the sheet of nori spread with white rice, and then set the tuna roll on top.
6

Place the remaining 3 pink rice rolls so that the tuna roll is in the center and the pink rice rolls form flower petals around it.
7

Wrap up the whole roll in the sushi rolling mat, pressing together firmly. Use a wet knife to cut the roll into slices, and you're done.
8

There will be a little bit of the pink sushi rice left over, so you can press that into a moistened cookie cutter and then push it out again to form cute shapes.