New York Roll

New York roll is no doubt a very famous American-style sushi roll. Today I will tell you how you can easily make a New York sushi roll at your home by following simple steps.

This New York sushi roll is an inside-out sushi roll filled with shrimp, creamy avocado, and cucumber that gives you a savory flavor. The ingredients are simple, so you can quickly fulfill your sushi craving at any time as an appetizer, lunch or dinner.

If you are a sushi lover, you will love eating New York sushi rolls. The style is the same as the Alaska Roll but with different ingredients that give you a different taste.

What You Need To Know About New York Roll?

New York sushi roll, as the name tells itself, how famous this sushi roll is. It is one of the most liked and served sushi in every state.

For the first time, I was confused about “New York Roll” due to its similarities to Boston Roll because both have common cream cheese. So I thought both were the same.

After searching, I found that New York sushi rolls have different versions like Philadelphia Roll or Boston Roll, and both have similarities. There is not much difference but with little after an American location.

And when it comes to New York sushi rolls (maki), it looks so good if you eat it with jalapenos. Enjoy a New York sushi roll with inside cooked shrimp, cucumber, and avocado rolled in nori and seasoned with sesame seeds. If you love eating sushi, grab the ingredients and make it right away.

What is New York Roll?

An inside-out sushi roll with cooked shrimp and cucumber filled with creamy avocado. A springy cooked shrimp, creamy avocado, and crunchy cucumber are all wrapped in seaweed nori. The rice is layered on the outside of the nori sheet, which is covered and holds New York crunch roll ingredients together. 

Why This Recipe

New York roll is very tasty, super delicious, and easiest to make. You can have it as a snack, appetizer, or dinner. Give this recipe a try and prepare it in your home. The taste will boom as like the restaurant.

What Is Necessary For New York Sushi Roll

• Sushi Rice: Try to use short-grain rice to boil and make them fluffy.
• Avocado: Try to pick a perfect avocado or ripe one for your sushi. The skin should be dark in color from the outside with a slightly squishy. It should not be hard or overripe; otherwise, it will not mesh.
• Cucumber: Cucumber makes your sushi complete. If you don’t have cucumbers, Yamagobo is a good substitute or you can use both of them as a combination.
• Cooked Shrimp: New York roll is a perfect option if you don’t eat raw fish in sushi.
• Nori Sheet or Seaweed paper: You need a nori sheet so you can wrap all the ingredients in a perfect roll style. Nori is available at every grocery store. You can purchase nori seaweed from most grocery stores or buy it online from Amazon or Walmart.
• Sesame Seeds: You can use white or black sesame seeds. When I prepare sushi rolls, I use both of them. Both are delicious, and tasty and have the same result.

How to Make Sushi Rice

It would help if you prepared sushi rice for a New York roll as this is a combination of veggies, fish, wasabi, and soy sauce. In order to make sushi rice at home, follow the steps below:

1. Pick short-grain rice and rinse it well with water to remove excess starch.
2. Take clean water in a bowl and dip sushi rice for 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Add rice in a cooker filled with water and 1 teaspoon salt.
4. Cook your rice for 5 to 10 minutes according to the package instructions
5. Once the rice is cooked, add a bit of rice vinegar and mix well.

Your homemade sushi rice is now ready.

New York Roll Ingredients

Sushi Rice Ingredients

• 2 cups white rice cooked (small or medium-sized grain)
• 3 cup water 
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 tsp salt

New York Roll 

• 6 oz cooked shrimp
• 1 cucumber
• 1 Avocado
• A Nori seaweed sheet
• pickled ginger (optional) 
• 1 tbsp mayonnaise (optional) 
• ½ tsp sriracha (optional)
• Soy sauce (optional)

Tools Required to Roll New York Sushi

• Bamboo rolling mat wrapped with plastic

How To Make New York Roll

1. Place down the bamboo sushi rolling mat on a cutting board
2. Take the half nori sheet and place it on the rolling bamboo mat.
3. Start placing your cooked rice on a nori sheet using soft and wet hands to avoid sticking.
4. Move your nori sheet close to the bottom edge of the bamboo mat. It should be half-inch away from the bottom.
5. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the rice layered onto the nori sheet.
6. Flip the nori sheet, so the rice side goes down against the bamboo mat.
7. Cut the avocado, cucumber, and shrimp into slices.
8. Now place them on the nori sheet. The placement of the ingredients in a row line.
9. Grab the bamboo sushi mat and nori with your thumb.
10. Lift the edge and start rolling slowly with your fingers by giving a gentle push. 
11. Keep tight and rolling until the roll is done and the edges mix.
12. If you want, you can add some extra toppings.
13. Take a sharp knife and cut it into small segments.
14. Serve with soy sauce, sriracha, or mayonnaise, and enjoy eating.

Best Serve with New York Roll

Sauces

• Tobiko Sauce
• Masago Sauce
• Ina Garten Tartar Sauce
• Soy Sauce
• eel sauce or Unagi Sauce
• Bang Bang Sauce
• Yum Yum Sauce

Sides

• Spaghetti Squash
• Chicken Broccoli Salad
• Acorn Squash
• Carrot salad
• Brussel Sprouts

FAQs And Tips Regarding New York Roll

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New York Roll

New York roll is no doubt a very famous American style sushi roll. This recipe is so easy to make yourself! The ingredients are simple so you can easily fulfil your sushi craving as appetizer or dinner.

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Servings: 2 Sushi roll

Course: Appetizer, Dinner, Snack

Cuisine: Japanese

Calories: 420

Prep: 12 minutes mins

Cook: 5 minutes mins

Total: 17 minutes mins

Ingredients

 

Sushi Rice Ingredients

• 2 cups white rice cooked small or medium-grain
• 3 cups water
• 2 tsp rice vinegar
• 1 tsp salt

New York Roll

• 6 oz cooked shrimp
• 1 cucumber
• 1 Avocado
• 1 Nori seaweed paper
• Pickled ginger Optional
• 1 tsp mayonnaise Optional
• ½ tsp sriracha Optional
• soy sauce Optional

Equipment

• Bamboo sushi rolling mat

Method

 

1. Place down the bamboo sushi rolling mat on a cutting board.
2. Take the half nori sheet and place it on the bamboo rolling mat.
3. Start placing your cooked rice on a nori sheet by using soft and wet hands to avoid sticking.
4. Move your nori sheet close to the bottom edge of the bamboo mat. It should be half-inch away from the bottom.
5. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the rice layered onto the nori sheet.
6. Flip the nori sheet, so the rice side goes down against the bamboo mat.
7. Cut the avocado, cucumber, and shrimp into slices.
8. Now place avocado, cucumber, and shrimp on the nori sheet. The placement of the ingredients in a row line.
9. Grab the bamboo sushi mat and nori with your thumb.
10. Grab the bamboo sushi mat and nori with your thumb.
11. Lift the edge and start rolling both slowly with your fingers by giving some gentle push.
12. Keep tight and keep rolling until the roll is done and the edges mix.
13. If you want, you can add some extra toppings.
14. Cut it with a sharp knife and make small segments.
15. Serve with soy sauce, sriracha or mayonnaise, and enjoy eating New York roll.