Classic California Roll Recipe

Classic California Roll Recipe

  • 1½ cups crab meat (7 ounces) or 7 sticks faux crabmeat
  • Fourteen ½-inch-square, 4-inch-long cucumber sticks (for cutting instructions, see Notes)
  • ½ pitted large avocado (3½ ounces), cut into 14 long sticks and then peeled
  • ½ cup toasted white sesame seeds or tobik-ko roe (flying fish eggs)
  • 3 tablespoons Sriracha mayonnaise sauce or 1 tablespoon wasabi
  • 7 half-sheets nori (laver); choose the thicker variety
  • 6 cups (lightly packed) prepared sushi rice (7/8 cup, 4.2 ounces, per roll)
  1. Step 1: Setting Up
  2. Step 1: Setting Up