Temari sushi (sushi balls)
Temari sushi (sushi balls)

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, temari sushi (sushi balls). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Temari sushi (sushi balls) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Temari sushi (sushi balls) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Try Drive-Up, Pick-Up, ReStock, or Same Day Delivery w/ Shipt. Temarizushi, or Temari sushi, are small and ball-shaped sushi. Temari (literally means "hand ball" in English) is a traditional Japanese embroidered ball, which people used to play within Japan.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook temari sushi (sushi balls) using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Temari sushi (sushi balls):
  1. Make ready 2 cups cooked white rice (sushi rice)
  2. Make ready 4 tbsp sushinoko powder
  3. Get Toppings (grilled zucchini, avocado + smoked salmon)

Temari-sushi can be easily made with ingredients you can get anywhere. This traditional Japanese food is easy to eat for the cute bite-sized and also enough colorful to enjoy watching them. The sushi balls can be good to apply for takeout lunches (obento) or pot luck party. Mitarashi-Dango (a traditional Japanese dessert) is healthy because more.

Instructions to make Temari sushi (sushi balls):
  1. Add sushinoko powder to cooked rice while still warm. Mix well and let it cool. (Sushinoko powder - powdered sushi flavoring bought at Mitsuwa supermarket, Japanese store in San Jose)
  2. Prepare toppings. <Grilled zucchini> Slice zucchini and grill them as desired. Olive oil is a nice touch when grilling. Gently salted and peppered. Completely cooled before making sushi balls. <Avocado + smoked salmon> Peel avocado skin and take pit out, and mash them. Add drops of lemon juice to avoid avocado getting brown and salt mashed avocado (just a hint). Cut smoked salmon in small pieces.
  3. Spread Saran Wrap (or a similar product) over palm (about twice as big as your palm). Place a topping right in the middle. Place 2 tbsp of flavored rice on top, and wrap it to a size of golf ball.
  4. FYI - Sweet sour sushi rice is usually made with cooked white rice mixed with vinegar, sugar, salt (+ konbu, a type of sea weed). I personally like using Sushinoko powder to avoid rice getting too wet. Specially, it’s easy!
  5. FYI - Temari means Japanese traditional handballs.
  6. FYI - Toppings are usually (traditionally) sashimi fish. But you could try anything you like - cooked meat, pickled veggies, corned beef, ham, SPAM, cooked egg etc. Try your ideas and let me what you liked!!

Create picture-perfect sushi for any occasion with this delightful and easy temari sushi recipe. Temari are Japanese thread balls, made by winding colourful thread around and around into ball shapes with different interesting patterns, and these picturesque pieces of sushi reflect both the beauty and the shape of their namesake. Temari-sushi is ball-shaped sushi that is very cute and easy to make. Enjoy topping them with fresh fish, vegetables, fruit and whatever else you like. Their beautiful, eye-catching appearance is good for events and celebrations.

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