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Okay, y'all — here is the post you have all been waiting for! Today I am going to show you how EASY it is to make your own Tempura Fried Sushi Roll. Once you get your sushi rice made and your eel sauce, it is basically just putting it all together.

Making sushi at home doesn't have to be hard and these steps I am sharing with you today will help you prepare so many sushi recipes at home.

Of course, you can visit this page that has everything you need to know about making sushi at home. It has recipes listed, equipment and more. Every post on my site that has sushi recipes can be found here.

How to Make a Tempura Fried Sushi Roll

To start off with, you will need Nori Sheets. I got mine right on Amazon because I couldn't find them in the store. A huge pack is like $10 and will last you forever.

Assemble all of your ingredients around you. If you are unsure what all you need to make sushi at home, this post lists all the essential equipment you need to make all those delicious sushi rolls.

I used cream cheese, baked chicken cut into thin strips and asparagus for each of my sushi rolls. I told you that I don't do raw sushi, so this is what goes in mine. Be sure to have your rice close too.

Rolling Your Tempura Fried Sushi Roll

Start with your Nori Sheet. All that it is — is a seaweed sheet. They taste really good and not what you would expect at all.

Be sure to wrap your sushi roller in plastic wrap. This will keep the roll or your sushi rice from sticking to it.

Take your hands and run them under warm water. This will keep the rice from sticking to your hands. The thing about sushi rice? It sticks to everything!

Then place some of the rice on the Nori Sheet and spread it all around. You can cook your rice on the stove if you want, or you can invest in a sushi rice cooker to get it done even quicker.

Once you get your rice all over the nori sheet, then take your inside food (for me, this is the cream cheese, chicken and asparagus) and place them on one end of the nori sheet.

Of course, you can also crab, avocado, cream cheese and more. If you are pregnant, you can still eat sushi while you are pregnant. You just need to make sure that your sushi rolls are cooked.

Then from this point, you just roll it up as tight as you can get it. It should look something like this while you are rolling —

Once you get it rolled, remove the roller and you will have to make sure you roll it all the way back up again (that is normal if it doesn't hold the first time. You are just trying to mold it together. )

Take your roller and squeeze the sushi roll to make sure it is tight and holding together. Once you finish that, your rolls should like this —

Now – from this point, you can slice them and eat using the drizzle of the eel sauce, but my daughter and I love the tempura rolls they serve at our favorite Thai restaurant, so that is what we made.

That crunchy outer texture adds the most amazing flavor.

How to Make Tempura Batter

Create a tempura batter using the following ingredients —

• One cup of flour
• About 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
• 1 1/2 cups of club soda or seltzer water
• salt to taste

Then you are just going to dip your sushi rolls in the tempura batter and fry them to get a golden brown on the outer side of the sushi rolls.

Once it is browned on all sides, remove from the oil and place on a paper towel-lined plate to remove excess oil.

Then plate, slice, and serve with my eel sauce recipe for the perfect sushi night recipe!

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