Unagi roll recipe
The main ingredient in Unagi Sushi is barbecued eel which is sometimes hard to obtain. You can follow this link to buy canned BBQ Eel online, it’s exactly the kind used in the recipe below. This product requires that you carefully debone the eel chunks before consuming. Another option is to use frozen eel packs such as this one . They may cost more, but then again you get what you pay for.
Ingredients:
Yield: 4 sushi rolls.
- 1.5 cup sushi rice.
- 2 nori sheet
- 200gr barbecued Eel
- 1 cucumber
- Unagi sauce
Variations may include:
- Black and/or white sesame seeds (on top)
How to make unagi sushi
- Wrap your bamboo mat with plastic wrap. This is necessary in order to prevent rice from sticking to the mat and to allow easy clean up between rolls.
- Take a nori sheet, and break it in half. If it doesn’t break easily, you can toast it for a few seconds or use scissors to cut it. Place one half on the mat, with the shiny side facing down. In this example I actually used the entire nori sheet to get a larger roll, although it’s more common to use half.
- Grab a handful of prepared sushi rice, and spread it gently over the nori – about 1 cm high. There’s no need to press the rice down onto the nori, only spread it to cover the sheet. Cover the entire sheet if you are using half a nori, and the about 80% of it if you are using a full nori.
- Flip the nori so that the rice is now facing down.
- Line up the eel slices close end of the nori.
- Next to it, line up 1-2 thick sticks of cucumber. You can see I used very thick ones, you can use thinner ones if you want. They add a *Fresh* and *Green* feeling to the roll, so I like adding more of it.
- Roll it inside out. You can find detailed instructions on how to roll inside out sushi here.
- Cut into 8 equal pieces. For best results first cut in half, then cut each half into two, and then again. Plate it in any formation you choose. Now is the time to sprinkle some sesame seeds on top if you like, and decorate with a few lines of sticky unagi sauce.
Best served with unagi and soy sauces, pickled ginger (gari) and wasabi.
I didn’t know eel came in a can. I’m definitely going to order some and try it! Fresh eel is nearly impossible to buy in my area so it would be a good alternative to ordering out.
Wow! I knew something was missing from the ingredients I used previously to make my Unagi Sushi. I just found it here, I’m happy. Let me go try again, I hope to get it right this time.