Caterpillar sushi roll 🐛 recipe

What is a Caterpillar Roll?

Caterpillar roll is basically a reverse Dragon roll. Avocado on the outside, eel and tempura fried shrimps inside. Delicious.

You can get quite creative making it. I used sprouts for antennas and a tiny bit of sriracha sauce for the eyes. A bit of masago on top of each piece really made a difference in look an taste.

The tempura

For this recipe I used tempura mix, but you can easily make tempura ‘from scratch’ with flower, water and a beaten egg. I’ll post a recipe for that as well as soon as I can.

One more thing

It’s a marathon. Dragon roll is a more complicated roll to make due to the heavy prep. Grilling the eel and frying the shrimp takes  a bit of extra time so do plan ahead.

Caterpillar sushi roll 🐛 recipe

Caterpillar roll is basically a reverse Dragon roll. Avocado on the outside, eel and tempura fried shrimps inside. Delicious.

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Prep Time 30 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Japanese

Ingredients

 

US CustomaryMetric

 

• 1 Nori sheet
• ⅔ cup Sushi rice
• 1 Unagi Grilled Eel
• 6 med size Shrimp
• Tempura powder
• Masago

Instructions

 

• Oven grill the BBQ eel for about 5 minutes
  
• Mix ½ cup tempura mix and ½ cup cold water to make tempura batter
  
• Dip shrimp in tempura
  
• Deep fry until golden, leave to cool on paper towel
  
• Cut a nori sheet in half, and cover with sushi rice
  
• Flip the nori over, and place the shrimp and avocado across the nori
  
• Roll it as you would an inside out sushi roll
  
• Slice half an avocado in thin slices and place them on on the roll to fully cover it
  
• Cover the roll with plastic tape. Use the sushi rolling mat to tighten the avocado to the roll.
  
• Cut the roll through the plastic tape in 8 pieces. Remove the tape, and transfer the sushi to a serving plate. Decorate.
  

Keyword caterpillar roll, sushi

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