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Unagi Mini Sushi Cake

Name: Unagi Mini Sushi Cake
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 300g Cooked Sushi Rice; Dash Sushi Rice Vinegar to season the rice; 4 tsp Furikake Japanese Seasoning; Two tbsp Light Soya Sauce; OTHER INGREDIENTS; 250g Unagi, cooked and cut on a diagonal about 1cm thick, divided into four parts; 8 tbsp Unagi Sauce; 1 Avocado diced small; 2 tsp Light Soya Sauce; 0.5 tsp Sesame Oil; 1 tsp Sriracha; 1 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise (I used Kewpie); 0.5 tbsp Chives finely chopped; 8 Nori seaweed strips cut from a sheet; Tempura Shimeji Mushrooms; 4 Small Cucumber curls made using a vegetable peeler; Edible Flowers; EQUIPMENT NEEDED; 3” cooking ring with pusher; Sesame oil to grease cooking ring; FOR THE TEMPURA SHIMEJI MUSHROOMS (OPTIONAL); Search under recipes on my site for ‘Crispy Light Tempura Vegetables’. This recipe is for more than just a few mushrooms, so make some tempura veggies to accompany your sushi cakes or leave out the tempura if you prefer.

by Zarina October 10, 2021

October 10, 2021

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Grilled Japanese Eel (Unagi), crisp on the outside and succulent inside, fanned on top of seasoned sushi rice. Avocado tartare then drizzled with flavour bursting sweet thick soy sauce. Thin nori sheets are wrapped around the sushi rice. The top is decorated with tempura shimeji mushrooms, garnished with curled cucumber and yellow edible flowers.

Not sure why I hadn’t posted this one yet.. when I did the sushi cake series earlier this year, this one was my favourite. It’s the only one that didn’t cut the magazine feature… so here is it…. I hope you guys like it and will give it a go!!?!

Legend has it thaUnagigi is a powerful aphrodisiac… did you know that random fact?? 🤣

Unagi Mini Sushi Cake

Serves: 4 Prep Time: 40 Minutes Cooking Time: 20 Minutes 20 Minutes

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5
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Ingredients

300g Cooked Sushi Rice

Dash Sushi Rice Vinegar to season the rice

4 tsp Furikake Japanese Seasoning

Two tbsp Light Soya Sauce

OTHER INGREDIENTS

250g Unagi, cooked and cut on a diagonal about 1cm thick, divided into four parts

8 tbsp Unagi Sauce

1 Avocado diced small

2 tsp Light Soya Sauce

0.5 tsp Sesame Oil

1 tsp Sriracha

1 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise (I used Kewpie)

0.5 tbsp Chives finely chopped

8 Nori seaweed strips cut from a sheet

Tempura Shimeji Mushrooms

4 Small Cucumber curls made using a vegetable peeler

Edible Flowers

EQUIPMENT NEEDED

3” cooking ring with pusher

Sesame oil to grease cooking ring

FOR THE TEMPURA SHIMEJI MUSHROOMS (OPTIONAL)

Search under recipes on my site for ‘Crispy Light Tempura Vegetables’. This recipe is for more than just a few mushrooms, so make some tempura veggies to accompany your sushi cakes or leave out the tempura if you prefer.

Instructions

Place cooked hot sushi rice in a wooden bowl and season with sushi rice vinegar, soya sauce and furikake, mix, cover with a damp tea towel.

Place avocado in a bowl with soya sauce, sesame oil, Sriracha, Japanese mayonnaise and chives, mix carefully not to mush up the avocado, set aside.

Grease or brush the inside of the cooking ring, and with a touch of sesame oil, grease your chopping board a little too so the rice can be easily removed.

Place the cooking ring on the greased board and fill 1/3 way up with the seasoned sushi rice. Flatten the rice with the ring pusher.

Fill another 1/3 way up with some of the avocado tartar and again flatten with the ring pusher.

Add more sushi rice to the cooking ring to fill it to the top, flatten again, then remove the ring.

Place the nori sheets around the rice cake in a cross-cross pattern tucking them in under the cake.

Arrange the warm unagi in a fan shape on top of the rice, drizzle with the sweet soy sauce

Decorate with the tempura shimeji mushrooms, a cucumber curl and edible flowers

Repeat this process for your remaining cakes

Serve immediately and enjoy!

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Unagi Mini Sushi Cake

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