Calling all sushi lovers! Have you ever heard of onigirazu, also recognized as a sushi sandwich? As the identify suggests, it’s a love little one of a western sandwich and a Japanese sushi roll. It’s fairly simple to make, it travels well, and being sushi’s remote cousin, it’s naturally gluten-free and really filling too.
Don’t be intimidated by means of means of the size of this recipe. In my normal style, I went for NULL assorted fillings (tofu and candy potato) in my onigirazu and so I felt the have to clarify in element tips on tips to cross about making both of them (2 ways!), which makes the recipe SEEM tremendous fussy and complicated. It’s not.
Choose both filling, choose regardless of no matter if you desire the sinful, fried model of your core component or the healthier, baked one and you'll be able to jump pumping out those beauties like a (lady) boss! 🙂 It’s okay, you'll be able to thank me later – name me oldschool but I’m now not eager on the complete speaking whereas chewing industry 😉 .
INGREDIENTS
ONIGIRAZU
4 nori sheets
about 4 cups of cooked sushi rice*
1 avocado, sliced
25 g / 1 oz little one spinach
red cabbage, shredded and pickled (optional, see below)
Sriracha or vegan mayo
TOFU KATSU VERSION
2 x 200 g / 7 oz agency tofu, pressed**
tamari or soy sauce
1 cup aquafaba (reduced so that it resembles an egg white)
1-2 cups panko breadcrumbs (GF breadcrumbs for GF version)
all goal flour or cornflour (for GF version)
2 cups frying oil (for fried model only)
SWEET POTATO VERSION
1 big candy potato
1 tbsp tamari (GF) or soy sauce
1 tbsp maple syrup
2 tsp impartial oil
1 tsp toasted sesame oil
2 tsp rice vinegar
QUICK PICKLED RED CABBAGE (optional)
a wedge of red cabbage, sliced thinly
½ cup rice vinegar
2 tbsp sugar or maple syrup
1 tsp advantageous sea salt
1 clove of garlic, overwhelmed with the facet of a knife
METHOD
FILLINGS
TOFU KATSU VERSION
BAKED – Set the oven to 200° C / 390° F and line a baking tray with baking paper. Toast panko breadcrumbs in a small pan till golden (they will acquire extra coloration within the oven). Cut every tofu block into NULL 50% thinner blocks. Sprinkle tofu with a few soy sauce (or tamari) otherwise you'll be able to season the flour with lots of salt instead. Drag tofu in flour making certain that the complete floor enviornment has been coated. Dip the tofu within the gelatinous aquafaba and lastly drag it within the pre-toasted breadcrumbs. Brush a little bit of oil on the baking paper below the tofu and bake for about 30 minutes (until crisp and dry) flipping the items to the assorted facet half method through.
FRIED – Fill a small pot with 2 cups of frying oil and set on the stove. Cut every tofu block into NULL 50% thinner blocks. Sprinkle tofu with a few soy sauce (or tamari) otherwise you'll be able to season the flour with lots of salt instead. Drag tofu in flour making certain that the complete floor enviornment has been coated. Dip tofu in gelatinous aquafaba and lastly drag it in breadcrumbs. Carefully decrease the tofu, one piece on the time, into hot oil and allow it fry for about 3 minutes on every side. Once ready, position fried tofu on a work of kitchen towel to eliminate the extra oil.
You too can practice tofu as on this recipe.
SWEET POTATO VERSION
BAKED – Set the oven to 220° C / 425° F and line a baking tray with baking paper. Mix all of the ultimate meals collectively in a small bowl. Cut the center (widest) part of your candy potato, peel it and slice into ½ cm / 0.2″ slices. Brush every slice with the marinade and position the slices on the ready baking tray. Bake for about 20 min (until soft), flipping the slices to the assorted facet midway through.
You too can make candy potato appropriate into a katsu like on this recipe.
ASSEMBLY
Cut a sq. of grasp movie a little increased than your nori sheet. Place it on the table, position the nori sheet on ideal with the glossy facet down and rotated 45° in relation to the grasp movie (SEE PHOTOS above).
Wet your palms (keep a small bowl of water useful to rainy your hands) and seize a handful of rice. Place it within the center of the sheet and utilizing your palms variety it appropriate into a compacted sq. (about 9 cm / 3.5 ” by means of means of 9 cm / 3.5 “). Try to make that layer as even and compacted as possible. Season nicely with salt.
Place ultimate meals on top. For the tofu onigirazu, I placed a layer of spinach, avocado slices, Sriracha and tofu katsu. For the candy potato onigirazu, I used a layer of pickled cabbage, avocado slices, Sriracha and a candy potato disc. At this level hide all of the meals with one other layer of compacted rice. I discovered it a little tough to get the rice packed tightly with out squashing the meals underneath. My hack answer was to create that ideal layer of rice on a flippantly oiled piece of aluminium foil, placed this rice layer on the ideal of the stack after which peel the foil off on the quit (see the video above). Otherwise you'll be able to get a assorted onigirazu mould that makes this easier, but I don't have one.
Once you're accomplished together with your stack, seal all 4 corners of the nori sheet on ideal of the filling. Fold the proper nook over the stack, rainy the quit of the nori sheet with a rainy finger and fold the left nook over the stack and ‘glue’ it to the proper corner. Repeat the similar factor with backside and ideal corners till you get a small packet.
Finally collect all of the grasp movie over the stack and tie on the top. Put anything moderately heavy (like a breadboard) on the onigirazu and set it apart to allow the seaweed soften a little. Cut in half with a pointy knife.
QUICK PICKLED RED CABBAGE (optional)
Place shredded cabbage in a sterilised, medium dimension jar.
Put the ultimate meals and 120 ml / ½ cup water in a small pot. Bring to a soft boil, over low heat.
Once they arrive to the boil (make certain the sugar has dissolved), pour the combination over the cabbage and stir well. Make certain that the pickling liquid covers all of the cabbage. Set apart for 6-8 hours and consume.