🍲 Gunkanmaki (Topped Oval Sushi)

Name: Gunkanmaki (Topped Oval Sushi)
Ingredients: Sushi rice; Nori; Uni (sea urchin) roe; Salmon roe; Negitoro (minced raw tuna); Sliced cucumber; Quail egg

Japanese · 7 ingredients · 4 steps

Gunkanmaki ("battleship roll") is a variety of sushi where a oval-shaped piece of sushi rice is wrapped with nori and topped.

This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

Base

Sushi rice
Nori

Common toppings

Uni (sea urchin) roe
Salmon roe
Negitoro (minced raw tuna)
Sliced cucumber
Quail egg

Method

Cut nori into strips 1 inch wide and long enough to fully surround your sushi rice with at least 1 inch of overlap.
Form the sushi rice into oval pieces approximately 1 inch wide by 1¼ inch long by 1 inch high.
Starting with one end of a nori strip, fully wrap the nori around the sushi rice. Wet the inside of the overlapping nori, and press over the first end to seal the roll.
Stand the rolled rice up, and place the desired topping(s) on top of the roll as shown in the images.

Where this came from. Adapted from Gunkanmaki (Topped Oval Sushi) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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