My girls love California rolls and simple cucumber Maki and these ain’t cheap. A simple California roll with filling of eggs, cucumber, crab meat stick and crab roe can cost between RM5 – RM8 each at a Japanese restaurant. A family of 3 kiddos and 2 adults can easily chomp down 5-8 pieces of California rolls in a meal and that’s only the appetizer. An ala carte lunch or dinner of Japanese for our family of 5 can easily cause a damage of RM100 – RM150 to my hubs.
I had a light bulb moment the other day while having lunch at the Japanese restaurant. I decided to be ambitious and planned to make my own California rolls for the girls’ lunch. So the next day, I bought a packet of frozen crab meat sticks, a Japanese cucumber, vegetarian char siew, vegetarian fish and vegetarian roast goose, fried some eggs and bought a packet of cooked Japanese rice from the Japanese restaurant at our condo.
The ingredients….
I cut a large piece of toasted laver (Murasaki) or seaweed into half, placed a small slice of thinly pan-fried egg on the seaweed, followed by the Japanese rice, Japanese cucumber, crabmeat stick, vegetarian meat, squeezed in some creamy Japanese mayo and rolled it into a cone. Next time, I must remember to get an Avocado too for the filling.
Though the California roll wasn’t neatly wrapped, my kids and sil loved it. Each of them chomped down 3-4 rolls and I am having new orders from my 2 older pernickety girls for more of my homemade California rolls! Now, I need to keep practicing to improve on my California roll wrapping skill. And don’t you think that this is also a well balanced meal? It has a combo of protein from the eggs, crab meat stick and soy beans from the vegetarian meat, fiber from the seaweed and cucumber and carbo from the rice.
Very good attempt.
if Sher likes it,,, must be good. TQ for the tip…. another one to my list.