California Rolls

David and Leenie Sanchez Recipe

4 cups sushi rice *rice and sweet vinegar mixture
4 sheets of nori (dried seaweed)
1 avocado
1-2 young carrots cut into strips
1 cucumber peeled and cut in strips
3/4 cup crab meat (imitation is fine)
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp lemon juice
*optional masago (baby salmon roe)
Handful of radish sprouts
1/2 tsp salt
Soy sauce and wasabi (you can wasabi at most supermarkets in the international section)

*sushi rice: mix rice thoroughly with 1/4 cup of rice wine vine
gar, 2 tbsp of sugar and tsp of salt. Let cool
Mix mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt, masago*, paprika and
the crab meat.
Put a nori sheet on top of a bamboo mat or on a flat surface.
Spread the sushi rice on top of the nori sheet.
Place the a few strips of avocado, cucumber, carrot, sprouts and
Crab mixture lengthwise on the rice.
Roll up the seaweed roll tightly, pressing forward to shape
The sushi into a cylinder.
Cut the rolled sushi into bite-sized pieces with very sharp knife..
Dip with soy sauce and wasabi mixture.
Makes 4 rolls