But this time I was preparing a mini portion for a quick snack on my husband’s birthday.
These are my rolls with mussels - dedicated to all lovers of rolls, natural protein and seafood)
I start cooking the roll by thoroughly washing the rice - I rinse the rice until the water turns from white to clear.
Usually this takes at least 20 minutes, but if you skip this moment, the rice will turn from crumbly into a sticky porridge that will have nothing in common with real rolls.
After thoroughly washing, I pour water over the rice and let it cook until the water has completely boiled away.
Moreover, first I turn on high heat, wait until the water boils, then cover the pan with a lid and reduce the heat to low.
When the rice is cooked, I cool it almost completely, then pour in the rice vinegar, mix thoroughly and let it cool completely.
So, while the rice is cooking, I prepare the filling.
I send the frozen mussels to boil in boiling water, adding salt, pepper, coriander and bay leaf.
After boiling, cook for 1 minute.
Well, now it’s just a matter of making the rolls.
I lay out the sheets of nori with the rough side up, spread a thin layer of rice on the halves of the nori sheet with wet hands, then a strip of cream cheese, and place the mussels on the cheese.
Then, using a wooden mat, I roll the roll, securing the seam with either a damp finger or grain of rice, imitating glue.
Well, then with a sharp wet knife I cut the roll first in half, and then each half into three parts - this way you get 6 identical pieces.
Sushi baked with mussels is incredibly tasty. Therefore, it is worth the effort to prepare them, and you will not regret the time spent. In this article you will learn how to cook baked sushi.
- Recipe posted: Alexander Lozier
- After cooking you will receive: 6 servings
- Preparation: 30 minutes
- Cooking: 10 minutes
- Preparation: 40 minutes
- Calorie content: 120 kcal per 100 g
Ingredients
To prepare baked sushi, it is better to choose whole mussels.
Such sushi is served exclusively hot. Soy sauce is used as seasoning. From the products we will need:
- rice for making sushi - 100 g;
- nori - two sheets;
- mussels - 150 grams;
- Gouda cheese - 5 grams;
- rice vinegar - 1 teaspoon;
- salt and wasabi - to taste;
- soy sauce.
Sushi baked with mussels, recipe
1. Cook the rice until tender, let it cool and form neat oval-shaped lumps. To make this easier to do, your hands need to be moistened with water in which rice vinegar has been diluted.
2. Place a small amount of wasabi on top of the formed rice lumps.
3. Cut the nori leaves into strips of such width that you can wrap each lump of rice. We wrap the rice and carefully shape it again.
4. Place mussels on top and press lightly. Then sprinkle with grated cheese, previously mixed with soy sauce.
5. How to make baked sushi? Very simple. Place the finished sushi in the oven until the cheese is completely melted.
Sushi and pregnancy
Many women are interested in the question, Is it possible to have baked sushi for pregnant women??
According to doctors, women preparing for the birth of a child should not eat sushi that uses raw fish. And in general, not all types of fish and seafood are suitable for food. However, if you cannot live without sushi, then the baked sushi option is still more preferable. Make sure they are not too sharp.
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Which will be presented a little below, are very simple to do. Such products differ from fresh ones only in that after formation they are subjected to heat treatment in the oven.
Baked with ham
As you know, there are a great many options for how to make such a tasty and light Japanese snack. In this recipe, you will be presented with a method where a classic set is used, but instead of fresh salmon or salmon, regular ham is used.
So, we will need:
- sheets of nori seaweed - 2 pcs.;
- Chinese short grain rice - 1.5 cups;
- wasabi - add to taste;
- fresh long cucumber - 1 pc.;
- beef ham - 120 g;
- fine sea salt (for boiling rice);
- ripe red tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- hard cheese - 90 g.
Preparation of main products
Before making baked rolls, you should thoroughly process all purchased components. To do this, you need to rinse the short-grain rice until the water is clear, and then boil it with the addition of salt until completely soft (so that the grain acquires a viscous consistency and sticks together well). Next, you need to wash the fresh cucumber and cut it lengthwise into slices with sides measuring 0.8-1 centimeters. The same should be done with beef ham.
Formation process
To prepare semi-finished products for further baking, take a sheet of nori and cut it in half along the grain. Next, place a thin layer of sticky rice on the seaweed and season it with a small amount of wasabi sauce. After these steps, you need to wrap the sheet into a roll, as a result of which you should get a kind of sausage. It should be cut in half lengthwise and left aside for a while. The same procedure must be done with the second part of the algae.
After you have 4 halves of sausages ready, you should take a whole sheet of nori and place 2 parts of the roll at one end with their backs facing each other. On top of this layer you need to place the filling, or rather, several slices of ham and fresh cucumber. In turn, you need to place the remaining parts of the roll on these products and roll up the seaweed tightly, giving the rolls a square shape.
Heat treatment
Baked rolls, the recipe for which calls for the use of aromatic ham, should be cooked in the oven for 14-26 minutes. But before this, you need to cut the sausage into small pieces up to 4 centimeters thick, place them on parchment paper, and place a cap of finely chopped tomatoes and grated cheese on top. After the specified time has passed, the rolls must be removed from the oven, placed on a flat dish and served with some hot and spicy sauce.
Let's make baked rolls with mussels together
Preparing this dish is much easier and faster than the previous one. But before you begin heat treatment of products, they should be beautifully and correctly formed. For this we may need the following ingredients:
- Short grain rice intended for sushi - 1 cup;
- nori - 3 pcs.;
- (it’s better to take sweet “Maasdam”) - 50 g;
- mustard sauce - 1 large spoon;
- cheese sauce - 1 large spoon;
- aromatic mussels in oil - 210 g.
Preparation of semi-finished products
Baked ones can not only be served for a regular family dinner, but also used as a tasty, aromatic and beautiful snack for the holiday table. To do this, boil short-grain rice in salted water in advance (until a semi-viscous state), and then rinse it well and completely drain it of liquid. Next, you need to spread the finished cereal in an even layer over a piece of nori and wrap it tightly using a mat. The resulting sausage must be cut crosswise into eight pieces and set aside for a while.
To make the oriental appetizer as satisfying and tasty as possible, it needs to be coated with aromatic seafood dressing. To do this, chop the aromatic mussels (without oil) with a knife, add mustard and cheese sauces to them, and then mix thoroughly. The resulting filling needs to be placed on top of the finished rolls, and also a plate of hard cheese should be placed on top.
Baking process
After all the semi-finished products are properly prepared, they should be placed on a baking sheet pre-lined with baking paper and then placed in a preheated oven for a quarter of an hour. During this time, the rolls should be completely baked and covered with an appetizing glossy top.
How to properly serve an appetizer to the table?
Baked rolls, the recipe for which is presented in this article, should be served immediately after heat treatment. In addition to this appetizer, it is recommended to offer guests ginger, soy sauce or wasabi. Bon appetit!
Let it cool. Mix the shrimp paste and cream cheese until smooth (if you are using only cream cheese, then skip this step).
Frozen boiled mussels need to be completely thawed at room temperature. Thawed boiled mussels can not be fried or boiled, but can be used immediately to make rolls.
With damp hands, distribute the rice evenly over the entire sheet, not reaching the top edge of the nori, about 0.5-1 cm. Cut the cucumber into long and thin strips, place it on the rice closer to the bottom edge (as in the photo).
Next to the cucumbers, place mussels in a strip in one row.
Place the mixture of cheese and shrimp paste in a piping bag (or a plastic bag, cutting off the corner). Squeeze 1-2 strips of the mixture near the mussels.
Next, use a mat to roll everything into a tight roll.
And now cut each of the 2 parts of the roll into 4 more parts. As a result, you should have 8 mussel rolls.
Next to the delicious homemade mussel rolls, place pickled ginger and a little wasabi. Serve soy sauce along with rolls in a gravy boat. 
Bon appetit!
It’s not at all difficult to prepare rolls with mussels at home, the main thing is desire. It’s not always possible to order rolls delivered to your home (this is the budget side of the issue, and on holidays, as a rule, delivery companies are always full, the earliest delivery time is 1 o’clock in the morning, and before that time, sorry, what to do, counting down the minutes and waiting in the wings - well, no!). Considering that today is a holiday - February 23, and you want to please your Protector with something exquisite and unusual, then such a recipe will come in handy. Just imagine: wine, candles and delicious rolls - romance!…
From the presented ingredients we will prepare rolls with different compositions; only mussels will remain unchanged in the filling.
Ingredients for 3-4 servings:
1) rice - 12 tbsp,
2) mussels - 150 grams,
3) nori - 5 sheets,
4) cucumber - 1 pc.,
5) salt -2/3 tsp.
6) sugar - 1 tbsp,
7) apple cider vinegar - 1 and 1/3 tbsp.,
8) cream cheese (preferably curd cheese without any flavoring additives) - 180-200 grams,
9) egg - 1 pc.
Making rolls at home
1. First, wash the rice in cold running water until the water becomes clear and let it dry for an hour.
2. Next, fill the rice with water at the rate of 1.5 to 1, i.e. You need 1.5 times more water than rice. Add sugar, salt, apple cider vinegar and cook under a closed lid (preferably transparent to control the process) over high heat until it boils. As soon as the water boils, reduce the heat to the lowest setting and cook until the liquid evaporates.
Important: do not open the lid or stir the rice during the entire cooking process.
3. Cool the rice. It is better not to stir the rice unnecessarily so as not to turn it into porridge.
4. Defrost the mussels and place them in boiling salted water for 5 minutes. After this, remove the mussels and let the water drain.
5. Cut the cucumber into strips.
6. Stir the egg well and fry in a frying pan, preferably with a non-stick coating without sunflower oil, to make an egg pancake. Cut the pancake into strips 2-2.5 cm wide.
7. Next, take the nori, place it with the smooth surface down on a bamboo mat, distribute the rice evenly in a thin layer, leaving 1.5 cm at the top edge, 1 cm at the bottom. It is very convenient to distribute the rice evenly if you wet your fingers in cold water. water. Then grains of rice will not stick to your fingers.
8. Place our filling closer to the bottom and gradually, from the bottom edge, using a mat away from you, wrap the nori into the sausage. You need to wrap it tightly so that the rolls don’t fall apart. Moisten the top edge with water and secure it. Here's what we get:
9. Now let's move on to the fillings themselves.Place all the fillings one next to the other.We got rolls with 4 different fillings:
— mussels, cream cheese, strip of egg pancake, cucumber,
— mussels, cream cheese, strip of egg pancake,
You can put the remaining food in the 5th sheet of nori.
10. Now, with the sharpest knife, we cut our sausages in half, and then these halves into 3 more equal parts. One sausage makes 6 pieces. rolls. It is better to moisten the knife with cold water during the cutting process, and keep the nori sheet itself with the seam down.
Rolls with mussels are ready! Best served with soy sauce.
Bon appetit!
