Nakagawa's Eel Hand Rolls

Name: Nakagawa's Eel Hand Rolls
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: japanese
Ingredients: 1 plastic package baked eel with sauce (see note); 1 rectangle packaged roasted seaweed; 1/3 cup (approximately) cooked sushi rice (see recipe); 10 fine julienne strips peeled cucumber, about 3 inches long; 1/2 teaspoon Japanese horseradish (see recipe); 1 teaspoon sesame seeds

By Craig Claiborne

Total Time: 15 minutes
Rating: 3(16)
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Ingredients

Yield:1 serving

1plastic package baked eel with sauce (see note)
1rectangle packaged roasted seaweed
⅓cup (approximately) cooked sushi rice (see recipe)
10fine julienne strips peeled cucumber, about 3 inches long
½teaspoon Japanese horseradish (see recipe)
1teaspoon sesame seeds

Ingredient Substitution Guide

Preparation

Step 1
Drop eel in plastic bag into boiling water and let stand 2 minutes.
Step 2
Cut seaweed into a rectangle measuring 4 by 7 inches.
Step 3
Dampen fingers with cold water. Put rice off center near lefthand edge of rectangle of seaweed. Pat down with dampened fingers to flatten slightly. Brush with horseradish. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Step 4
Open eel package and cut into diagonal, parallel ½-inch-wide slices. Top rice with these slices. Pour sauce from the plastic package over eel and rice. Add cucumber strips.
Step 5
Fold bottom left corner over to partly cover rice. Roll seaweed into shape of ice cream cone. Eat by hand.

Tip

Baked eel hermetically sealed in plastic is available in stores that specialize in imported Japanese foods. The plastic bag also contains a sauce to be used with the eel. One source is Katagiri, 224 East 59th Street.