Month: March 2008

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Naked Spicy Tuna Roll

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Hot hot hot! This is another spicy tuna roll, but it gets it’s heat from a completely different source. Instead of the Sriracha sauce that is in normal spicy tuna rolls, this one has a jalapeno as one of it’s fillings. Even though it has cream cheese to soothe your taste buds… it really doesn’t help much. Or so I hear. To be honest, I made Son try this one, and I didn’t even have a bite! If I had, I guarantee I would have been running around the kitchen with tears running down my face. 😀 Those of you who are like me and not huge spicy fans… yeah you, you know who you are!… this one isn’t for you. However the rest of you who adore spicy foods… yes I know you know who you are too!… you will love this!

Ingredients
  • 6 sheets nori
  • 3 cups sumeshi
  • 1 cucumber
  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 6 jalapeño peppers or a bunch of sliced jalapeños from a jar (this is what I used)
  • 6 oz sashimi-grade tuna
Cooking Directions
  1. Cook sushi rice.
  2. Cut cucumber into sticks.
  3. Slice jalapeños… but be careful! Don’t get the oils in your eyes! Discard the stem.
  4. Slice tuna into 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch by 2-3 inch sticks, against the grain.
  5. Roll the sushi, using a few sticks of cucumber, some cream cheese, a sliced jalepeño and some tuna as your fillings.

Serving Size: 1 roll Naked Spicy Tuna Roll

  • Calories: 218
  • Fat: 6g, 10% DV
  • Saturated Fat: 3g, 17% DV
  • Cholesterol: 31mg, 10% DV
  • Sodium: 965mg, 40% DV
  • Total Carbohydrates: 29g, 10% DV
  • Dietary Fiber: 2g, 7% DV
  • Sugars: 17g
  • Protein: 10g, 20% DV
  • Vitamin A: 29%
  • Vitamin C: 11%
  • Calcium: 3%
  • Iron: 7%
  • Magnesium: 6%
  • Potassium: 5%

Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. These values are only estimates based on the individual ingredients, and not meant to replace the advice of a medical professional.

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Unagi Asparagus Roll

unagi asparagus

Tuna tuna tuna… so many tuna sushi recipes lately! What? I’m catching up for the entire year that I didn’t use any sashimi at all! 😀 A quick break though… it’s an unagi recipe today, and then it’s back to tuna! Mmmmm…

I love asparagus. That might not sound like anything special unless you know that I hate vegetables. Well, I used to at least. When I was little my parents used to make me (and my siblings… it wasn’t just me!) eat our vegetables before we ate the rest of our dinner! I’m getting much better though, not I’ll eat asparagus and most other vegetables without making horrible faces. 😀 So obviously, I had to put some asparagus in a roll, and what better companion than unagi? Seriously. It’s gooood.

unagi asparagus roll

Ingredients
  • 6 sheets nori
  • 3 cups sumeshi
  • 1 package frozen unagi
  • 6 spears asparagus
Cooking Directions
  1. Cook sushi rice.
  2. Cook unagi according to directions on package.
  3. Wash asparagus.
  4. Cut about 1-2 inches off bottoms of stalks, discard.
  5. Steam asparagus until tender, but still crisp.
  6. Roll the sushi, using some unagi and a stalk of asparagus as your fillings.
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Feisty Tuna Roll

feisty tuna roll

The Feisty Tuna Roll is a little bit spicy but not overwhelmingly so, and definitely tasty. The avocado helps cool it down a little more, so even people who aren’t huge fans of spicy foods will probably like this. 🙂

Ingredients
  • 6 sheets nori
  • 3 cups sumeshi
  • 1 large avocado
  • 2 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 2 tsp Sriracha sauce
  • 6 stalks green onion
  • 6 oz sashimi grade tuna
Cooking Directions
  1. Cook sushi rice.
  2. Cut the avocado in half, discarding the pit.
  3. Cut off the hard skin and discard.
  4. Slice the avocado into thin sticks.
  5. Mix the mayonnaise and Sriracha sauce.
  6. Wash the green onion, cut the long green stalks off of the white bulb-like things. Discard the white bulbs.
  7. Slice tuna into 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch by 2-3 inch sticks, against the grain.
  8. Roll the sushi, using avocado, green onion, tuna, and a little of the mayonnaise sauce as your fillings.