California Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into fine julienne
• 6 oz. cooked crabmeat or diced cooked shrimp, picked over for shells
• Good-quality soy sauce for dipping
• 3 Tbs. wasabi powder, mixed with 2 to 2-½ Tbs. cold water to make a paste
• 3 sheets toasted nori (dried seaweed)
• 1 large, ripe avocado
• 10-oz. jar pickled ginger
• + 2 more ingredients
• • ½ recipe Sushi Rice, slightly warm
  • Sesame seeds or flying fish roe for garnish (optional)

Cut slender wedges of avocado. Try this trick: without peeling, trim the top and bottom of the avocado and cut it in segments lengthwise to the pit. Pull away the peel and then gently grasp one segment at a time and pull it off. Set the avocado aside as you prepare the cucumber and crabmeat; set ...

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