Christina & Susan Make Hand Rolls | From The Home Kitchen | Bon Appétit

Join chefs Christina Chaey and Susan Kim as they demonstrate how to make hand rolls, a quick and delicious option for summer dinner parties. Beyond the seaweed wrap and seasoned rice, filling a hand roll is part meal prep, part self-expression with your guests free to add whichever toppings are most appealing to them.

Ingredients:
Rice:
1½ cups sushi rice, preferably short grain
2 cups cold water

Daikon Pickle:
¼ lb. daikon
2 cups unseasoned rice vinegar
1 cup water
½ cup sugar

Rice Seasoning:
2 Tbsp. unseasoned rice vinegar
2 tsp. sugar
½ tsp. kosher salt

Asparagus:
Kosher salt
1 bunch pencil-thin asparagus

Spicy Tuna:
2 4-oz. cans oil-packed tuna, drained
2 Tbsp. mayonnaise
1 Tbsp. Sriracha
1 tsp. toasted sesame oil
White and pale green parts of 1 scallion, thinly sliced
Kosher salt

Egg ribbons:
2 eggs, beaten
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
2 teaspoons vegetable oil

Assembly:
1 small English hothouse cucumber
1 avocado
1 cup chopped kimchi
Nori sheets
Dark green scallion tops, thinly sliced
Toasted sesame seeds
1 cup pea shoots
2 oz. trout roe, optional

See Christina's spicy tuna hand roll recipe here: https://www.bonappetit.com/story/summer-hand-rolls
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VIDEO BREAKDOWN
0:00 Introduction
0:54 Make the rice
1:10 Rinse rice, add water, cook for 18–20 minutes, and rest for 10 minutes
2:46 Prep the veg
2:52 Make daikon pickle
3:01 Cut daikon batons, cover with heated brine, and set aside for 30–60 minutes
4:42 Season rice, cover and set aside
5:18 Blanch asparagus, and spread on a sheet pan to let cool
6:07 Make the spicy tuna
7:01 Make the egg ribbons
7:08 Cook thin omelet and let cool
7:47 Cut cucumbers
7:54 Cut omelet into ribbons
8:07 Slice avocado
8:14 Arrange fillings on platters
8:43 Chop kimchi and add to platter and sprinkle scallions and sesame seeds on tuna
8:50 Cut gim/nori with scissors
8:56 Add pea shoots and trout roe to platter
9:31 Add bowls of rice
9:36 Assemble
9:54 Top gim/nori with rice, tuna, cucumber, kimchi, avocado, pea shoots, and trout roe
10:26 Top another sheet of gim/nori with rice, egg, asparagus, and daikon pickle
10:38 Wrap into cones
10:49 Use rice as glue to seal hand roll
11:04 Demo of how to create cone shape
11:34 Wrap asparagus hand roll into a log
12:01 Plate
12:05 Taste!
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Director: Maria Tridas
Editors: Robert Malone, Justin Symonds
Director of Photography: Bradley Wickham
Producer: Maria Tridas
Assistant Producer: Halie Aaron
Culinary Producer: Mallary Santucci
Culinary Assistant: Adam Demaris
Camera Operator: Gunsel Pehlivan
Audio: Rachel Suffian
Production Assistant: Sergio Santos
Post Production Supervisor: Stephanie Cardone
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicole Berg
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Christina & Susan Make Hand Rolls | From The Home Kitchen | Bon Appétit