FUSION RECIPE

SUSHI COCKTAIL
This recipe transforms sushi into individual servings that are perfect as small appetizers. The remaining sushi rice may be enjoyed as salad-style sushi by topping with a variety of greens, other fish and/or meat, served on a platter.
Ingredients

Appetizer serves 12
113 kcal Protein 9.8 g Fat 5.4 g (per serving)
- 400 ml / 1 2/3 C japonica rice*
- 450 ml / 2 C water
- 1 T sake
Sushi vinegar**
- 100 ml / 3.5 oz. rice vinegar
- 1 1/2 T granulated sugar
- 1/2 t salt
Tomato-soy sauce
- 2 tomatoes, total 260 g / 9 oz.
- 1 t granulated sugar
- 1 t Kikkoman Light Color Soy Sauce
- 180 g / 6 oz. cooked bay shrimp
- Lemon juice
- 4 T mayonnaise
- 1 t wasabi paste, or more if preferred
- 2 t Kikkoman Soy Sauce
- 1 avocado
- Dried nori seaweed for optional garnish, strips or shredded
Directions
- Cook rice. Mix hot cooked rice with 4 T sushi vinegar and then cool.
- Peel tomatoes, remove seeds and drain off the juice. Chop roughly, then place in a small pan with the granulated sugar and light color soy sauce. Stir over medium-low heat until its consistency is similar to marinara tomato sauce. Allow to cool.
- Mix bay shrimp with lemon juice. Set aside.
- In a bowl, mix the mayonnaise, wasabi paste and soy sauce.
- Cut avocado in half, remove pit and skin. Cut each half into four lengthwise slices and then into small squares, each 1 cm / 1/2 in. Gently coat completely with the blended mayo-wasabi-soy sauce.
- To prevent the sushi rice from sticking to the cocktail glasses, mix 2 T sushi vinegar and 4 T water, and add 1/2 t vinegar-water to the bottom of each glass. Rotate to coat well; discard excess.
- To serve, spoon 2 T sushi rice into each cocktail glass.*** Sprinkle dried nori seaweed strips onto the rice, then add avocado mixture and cocktail shrimp, topped finally with a drizzle of tomato-soy sauce.
* The recipe uses only a portion of this rice; however, to cook properly, this quantity of rice is necessary.
** The sushi vinegar in this recipe is lighter and milder than usual sushi vinegar.
*** Adjust amount of rice according to size of serving ware.
Recipe by Michiko Yamamoto
1 C (U.S. cup) = approx. 240 ml; 1 T = 15 ml; 1 t = 5 ml