Sushi Balls (Temarizushi)- Halloween Style ハローウィーンの手毬寿司

Halloween Temari Sushi recipe

📝 Ingredients

• 2 cups Uncooked sushi rice
• 1 tsp Konbu dashi powder (or 5cm Kelp piece)
• 1/2 cup Rice vinegar
• 1.5 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 slice smoked salmon (thinly sliced)
• 1 egg fried flat
• 1/4 small cucmber (thinly sliced)
• 1 small radish (thinly sliced)
• 1 tsp fish roe (for toppings)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Cook the sushi rice as per your rice cooker instructions or in a pot. Before adding the water to cook the rice, mix in the dashi powder or about 5cm of kelp over the rice. *1
2. 2While the rice is cooking, in a small pot, heat the rice vinegar, sugar, and salt together to make the sushi vinegar on medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Set aside.
3. 3Prepare the Jack-O-Lantern face, by cutting up the nori sheets and using 6.5cm diameter cookie cutter, cut out 2 round nori sheets for cat face.
4. 4Crack the egg and fry it flat in a frying pan. When it is cooled down, cut out 2 rounds using the 6.5cm diameter cookie cutter.
5. 5Wash and thinly slice the radish and cucumber.
6. 6Once the rice is cooked, pour the sushi vinegar over it and mix to flavour the rice.
7. 7Once the rice has cooled down a little, place your favourite topping in the centre of a piece of cling wrap.
8. 8Place a scoop of rice on top of the topping by using a 1/3 cup then seal it together with the cling wrap and softly squish and shape it into a ball.
9. 9Continue to make sushi balls with various toppings.
10. 10Remove the cling wrap and place them on a serving plate.
11. 11Using a pair of chopstick or a tweezers, decorate the jack-o-lantern’s face, with pre-cut nori.
12. 12Pipe mayonnaise out to draw cat face. *2
13. 13Top with fish roe on radish and cucumber sushi balls.
14. 14Serve with soy sauce, mayo, and wasabi (optional).