Temari Sushi 手毬寿司
Temari sushi are colourful little ball-shaped sushi that are a perfect finger-food for any holiday celebration, party, or any other event, even for your everyday lunch! They’re very easy to make and don’t require any rolling mat.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sushi rice uncooked
- 1 tsp kombu kombu dashi powder or about 2 inch (5 cm) kombu strip
- ½ cup rice vinegar
- 1½ tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 lice smoked salmon thinly sliced
- 1 egg fried flat
- 1 cucumber mini, thinly sliced
- 1 radish small, thinly sliced
- 1 tsp fish roe 2, for toppings
Instructions
- Cook the sushi rice following Chopstick Chronicles' Sushi Rice recipe*1
Preparing ingredients
- Slice the mini cucumber and a radish to set aside.
- Crack 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.
- Score the belly side of the prawn to flat them.
Shaping Temari Sushi
- place your favourite topping in the centre of a piece of cling wrap.
- Place 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.
- Continue to make sushi balls with various toppings.
- Remove the cling wrap and place them on a serving plate.
- Using a pair of chopstick or a tweezers, decorate the top of each temari sushi.
Notes
- *1 Perfect Sushi Rice Recipe
- *2 other toppings suggestions - finely chopped scallions, grated ginger, salted sakura cherry blossom flower, yuzu peel.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 10 sushi
Amount Per Serving
Calories 189
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 189kcal | 9% |
| Carbohydrates | 33g | 11% |
| Protein | 6g | 12% |
| Fat | 3g | 5% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Trans Fat | 0.01g | 1% |
| Cholesterol | 94mg | 31% |
| Sodium | 294mg | 12% |
| Potassium | 112mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 2g | 4% |
| Vitamin A | 169IU | 3% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 25mg | 3% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.