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Saffa twists on 'Sushi'─── 15:00 Sun, 29 Dec 2019
Raw fish isn’t for everyone, but there is a ‘type of sushi’ for everyone. So, go ahead and ditch the fish for one of these three-ingredient sushi recipes.
According to liveeatlearn.com, you can hollow out a cucumber and stuff it with any ingredients of your choice, like avocado and red pepper, and cut it into wheels.
If you feel that cucumber is too close to rabbit food for your taste, don’t worry, “ons gaan nou braai!”
Melkbos.net brings in some meat with ‘boerewors sushi’. Simply wrap your boerewors in cheese and bacon and cut it into wheels.
If you have a demanding sweet tooth, not-enough-cinnamon.com suggests sweet chocolate and banana sushi rolls. All you need to do is wrap a banana and a chocolate bar in a pastry sheet and bake it in the oven before cutting it into rolls.
Cucumber sushi rolls
Ingredients:
1 large cucumber
½ cup chopped red peppers
½ cup chopped avocado
½ cup cooked rice
2 tbsp mayonnaise
Directions:
1. Use a spoon to hollow out your cucumber, work gently and be careful not to let the sides of the cucumber break.
2. Mix the rice and mayonnaise together in a bowl.
3 .Gently compress the rice mix to in the cucumber but leave enough space for the rest of the ingredients.
4. Stuff the cucumber with the red peppers and avocado using gentle compressions until the cucumber is completely stuffed.
5 .Cut the cucumber into rolls.
6. Enjoy delicious cucumber sushi rolls.
Boerewors sushi rolls
Ingredients:
150g Boerewors
75g grated cheddar cheese
12 streaky bacon strips
basting sauce
Directions:
1. Make a bacon weave.
2. Spread the cheese around the bacon weave until 2/3 of the bacon is covered with cheese.
3. Place the boerewors on the grated cheese and roll it up.
4. Place the roll on indirect heat and braai for 20 minutes.
5. Baste it with basting sauce and braai for 10 more minutes.
6. Remove the roll from the grill and cut it into smaller bite-sized rolls.
7. When it is cool enough to eat, enjoy with some dipping sauce.
Sweet banana-chocolate sushi rolls
Ingredients:
1 x 20cm x 20cm puff pastry sheet
1 banana
1 chocolate bar of your choice
1 egg
Directions:
1. Lay out the puff pastry sheet.
2. Peel the banana and put it on the side of the puff pastry sheet.
3. Cut the chocolate bar into blocks and place it next to the banana.
4. Fold the two edges of the puff pastry sheet over the top and bottom part of the banana.
5. Roll it into a roll.
6. Beat the egg and wash the pastry roll with the egg mix.
7. Put it in a preheated oven and bake at 180? for 20 minutes.
8. Cut into wheels and enjoy.