Smoked Salmon Sushi Roll

Sushi is my favourite food.It is a Japanese food which consists of vinegared rice and ingredients. Due to difficulty for transporting seafood, sushi is very expensive in Beijing. When I came to Montreal, I discovered the price of seafood is very low. So I can cook sushi at home right now. I will introduce how to cook Smoked Salmon Sushi Roll as below:

Ingredients

• 2 cups Japanese sushi rice
• 6 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
• 6 sheets nori (dry seaweed)
• 1 avocado - peeled, pitted and sliced
• 1 cucumber, peeled and sliced
• 8 ounces smoked salmon, cut into long strips
• 2 tablespoons wasabi paste

Directions

1.     Soak rice for 4 hours. Drain rice and cook in a rice cooker with 2 cups of water. Rice must be slightly dry as vinegar will be added later.

2.     Immediately after rice is cooked, mix in 6 tablespoons rice vinegar to the hot rice. Spread rice on a plate until completely cool.

3.     Place 1 sheet of seaweed on bamboo mat, press a thin layer of cool rice on the seaweed. Leave at least 1/2 inch top and bottom edge of the seaweed uncovered. This is for easier sealing later. Dot some wasabi on the rice. Arrange cucumber, avocado and smoked salmon to the rice. Position them about 1 inch away from the bottom edge of the seaweed.

4.     Slightly wet the top edge of the seaweed. Roll from bottom to the top edge with the help of the bamboo mat tightly. Cut roll into 8 equal pieces and serve. Repeat for other rolls.