Master Recipe Thin Roll with Cucumber

Name: Master Recipe Thin Roll with Cucumber
Yield: Makes 12 thin rolls (each 1 inch in diameter)
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Twenty-four ½-inch-square and 4-inch-long cucumber sticks (for cutting instructions); 3 to 4 tablespoons wasabi paste; 6 cups (lightly packed)* prepared sushi rice (½ cup, 2.8 ounces, per roll); 12 half-sheets nori (laver); choose the crisp variety; 3 tablespoons toasted white sesame seeds; tsuke-joyu (sushi dipping sauce)

Kappa-maki

Preparation info

Makes
12
thin rolls (each 1 inch in diameter)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Sushi Experience

By Hiroko Shimbo

Published 2006

About

Ingredients

Twenty-four ½-inch-square and 4-inch-long cucumber sticks (for cutting instructions)

Asia
Japan
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Step 1: Setting Up

Following the illustrations, 1. line up the filling ingredients—cucumber sticks and wasabi paste—on a plate. Have at hand the sushi rice, half-sheets of nori stacked up in a tin or in a closed seal-able plastic bag, a small bowl containing 1 cup of cold water with 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar or grain vinegar for moi