Crunchy Gamba in Sushi Roll

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields
DIFFICULTY
not easy
RATING
4 1
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 200 g Sushi rice
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Rice vinegar (Asian shop)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Sugar
  • 1/2 TEASPOON Salt
  • 100 g Tempura flour (Asian stores; alternatively wheat flour)
  • 1 Egg yolk (Gr. M)
  • 8 Stalks of green asparagus
  • 12 raw Seawater shrimps (approx. 30 g each; without head and shell)
  • 150 g Pankobrösel (Asian breadcrumbs; asian bread shops; alternatively breadcrumbs)
  • 1 l Frying oil
  • 4 Nori leaves (Asian shop)
  • 100 g sweet and sour pickled radish (Asialaden)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Asian mayonnaise (substitute mayonnaise)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS sweet-sour sauce
  • 7-10 Tbsp Soy sauce, wasabi and sushi ginger
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil
  • 4 long wooden skewers
  • 7-10 Tbsp Bamboo mat
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film

Directions

  1. 1

    For the sushi rice, wash the rice until the water is clear, then drain. Carefully bring to the boil with 1⁄4 l water in a pot. As soon as the rice boils, close the pot with aluminium foil and a lid.

  2. 2

    Cook at low heat for about 10 minutes. Cover and leave to swell for a further 10 minutes on the switched-off hotplate. Heat the vinegar, sugar and salt until the sugar has dissolved. Place the rice in a large bowl.

  3. 3

    Drizzle vinegar mix over it and fold in with a moistened wooden spoon. Let the rice cool down a bit, but process it as warm as possible.

  4. 4

    For the Tempura dough, mix 100 g Tempura flour, egg yolk and 1⁄4 l cold water. Do not stir too hard, the dough may be a little lumpy. Put it in the fridge, then it will be nice and crispy when baked out.

  5. 5

    Wash the asparagus and cut the ends off generously. Cook in little water for 2-3 minutes. Lift out and drain well. Rinse shrimps, dab dry and remove the dark gut if necessary. Put 3 prawns on 1 skewer each.

  6. 6

    First pull through the tempura dough, let it drip off a little and turn it in the panko crumbs.

  7. 7

    Heat the oil in a wide pot to approx. 180 °C (it is hot enough as soon as bubbles rise from a long wooden skewer) or in a deep fryer. Fry the prawn skewers one by one for 3-4 minutes, turning them from time to time.

  8. 8

    Drain on kitchen paper.

  9. 9

    Line a bamboo mat with cling film. Place 1 nori leaf on the bamboo mat with the rough side facing upwards. With moistened hands about 1⁄4 Sushi rice crosswise on 2⁄3 of the leaf loosely thinly distribute.

  10. 10

    Place about 1⁄4 of the radish and 1 asparagus stick in the middle of the rice. Drizzle 1 strip of mayonnaise and sweet and sour sauce over each. Put 1 prawn skewer on top. Roll up firmly using the bamboo mat. Do not wrap up the foil.

  11. 11

    Pull out the skewers. Form 4 rolls in this way. Cut sushi rolls into 6-8 pieces. Add wasabi, soy sauce and sushi ginger.