Recipe: Tasty California Roll Dip

California Roll Dip. California rolls may be a sushi restaurant staple, but they're not really a make-ahead dish since the seaweed gets soggy quickly. It also takes some time to make enough rolls to feed a crowd. Turning it into a dip served with seaweed instead of crackers takes much less time, and people will love making their own sushi bites!

Then with clean hands, grab a fistful and squeeze to remove excess water. Set aside in a mixing bowl and repeat with the rest of the cucumber. Family and friends can't get enough of this deconstructed sushi favorite adapted for dipping. (You can also serve it over sushi rice or regular steamed rice and make a rice bowl meal of it. You can have California Roll Dip using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of California Roll Dip

1. It's 1/2 pound of surimi (artificial crab), completely thawed, water squeezed out, and chopped.
2. You need 1 of Persian cucumber (1 pickling or 1/2 an English/Hothouse, seeded are ok)) diced, excess water squeezed out - See Step 1.
3. You need 1 of large ripe avocado diced.
4. Prepare 3 Tablespoons of very finely chopped onions.
5. Prepare 1/3 cup of mayonnaise (I like Best Foods/Hellman's).
6. It's 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.
7. It's 1 pinch of salt.
8. It's 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice.

Pick up one-fourth of the rice and place across the center of the nori sheet. California roll sushi = crab, mayo and avocado, right? This recipe was an invention of mine because I was craving california rolls SO badly but didn't want to go to the trouble of making sushi rice, etc. A California roll is a fresh take on traditional Japanese rice rolls.

California Roll Dip instructions

1. To squeeze excess water from cucumbers, dice them first, toss with 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and let sit for 15 to 20 mins. Then with clean hands, grab a fistful and squeeze to remove excess water. Set aside in a mixing bowl and repeat with the rest of the cucumber..
2. Add the rest of the ingredients into the mixing bowl and gently fold together until thoroughly combined. In these kinds of preparations, I like to sprinkle things like salt and sugar over the entire surface area because it's much easier to make sure they get evenly incorporated into the recipe that way..
3. Serve with crackers, pita, tortilla chips, or as a vegetable dip..
4. Enjoy!.

Filled with avocado, crab, and cucumber, it's fresh and crunchy and makes a filling meal. You can use real or imitation crab. A California roll is a creative American twist on sushi. This page will describe the California Uramaki. Uramaki has nori or seaweed on the inside and the rice on the outside, as opposed to a regular sushi roll, which usually has the seaweed on the outside.