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My wife and I love eating sushi, and it seems like everywhere we go, they have a roll named after the city we were in. Recently we stopped by a strip mall sushi place in a small town in VA, where we ordered the -insert location name here- roll. It just so happened that when it arrived at the table, the nori was replaced by thinly sliced smoked ham and it had spicy sausage on the inside! What are some of the craziest sushi ideas you have would recommend trying in your own home? |
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Guy Fieri makes what he calls "Gringo Sushi" at his restaurant Tex Wasabi. Never been there but I've seen him make a few different rolls on TV. Here is an example of one of his using pork and french fries. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/the-next-food-network-star/jackass-roll-recipe/index.html |
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For non-traditional rolls, you can't get much more "out there" than the Nutella "Dessert Maki" made at Planet Sushi. Gimmicky? Probably. But still delicious. It's a chocolate hazelnut rolled in white rice infused with coconut milk, then rolled again in egg (actually a sweet crêpe batter, as far as I know). Another, tastier (IMO) take on this is the modified strawberry or banana version that spread to a few other restaurants, which is a piece of the fruit coated liberally with Nutella spread on one half and coconut rice pudding on the other half, with the same outer omelette coating and garnished with coconut flakes and a little confectioner's sugar. If you're making a sushi dinner, I highly recommend a few of these for dessert. |
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I've had nigiri with green mango and raw beef. Heavenly, but perhaps not what you are looking for. |
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yours truly invented this bad sushi mix I once had left over sushi rice and left over turkey from the previous week, so I sautéed the turkey with some oil, finely chopped celery, radish, cilantro, and Worcestershire sauce. i then sprinkled some lime juice over the mixture. Let it cool and used it as a filling. IT wasn't that great, but it was an uncommon semi-delicious concoction |
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It might have graduated to the regular list, but the Philly roll is a great one. It's raw salmon and cream cheese. Very good. Possibly named after the popular store brand Philadelphia cream cheese, or for the common ethnic Jewish delicacy of lox/nova and cream cheese on a bagel, well represented in the Philadelphia area. |
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I know this is an old question but I've made a roll with spicy crab dip, salmon, and andouille sausage. Since I'm cajun, it's safe to call that a cajun roll. I also did one that had cucumber, avocado, sweet onion, salmon, crab stick, and fried shrimp, with a little cajun spice in the middle. It was so big it became difficult to roll. |
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Sunshine roll - Basically its a crab roll topped with salmon, a thin little wedge of lemon(including rind), and sriracha. Not as crazy as some rolls suggested above, the lemon is gives a flavor that is quite uncommon to traditional Japanese sushi. Me and my gf are always on the look out for that roll when ever we go out for sushi, tho not all restaurants make it the same way, but the lemon is the key ingredient. Salmon Skin Roll - I had this at Blue Ribbon Sushi in NYC. A traditional salmon roll, but instead of nori(seaweed) they use toasted salmon skin, and salmon in the middle. It was surprisingly good, and the richness of the skin was not as overpowering as one would think. This salmon was probably "free range", so it was probably leaner than farm raised, which cheaper sushi restaurants use. |
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It's that whole 'recommend trying in your own home' qualifier that makes it trickier to answer. I've had sweet potato sushi that was very good (it was cooked first ... I think deep fried) I also remember a sushi roll that had lettuce in it ... I want to say that one also included something deep fried (tuna?) with siracha, but it's been a few years. I've also seen rolls made with spam on TV (Food Network; The Chef Jeff Project) |
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There are a lot of sushi recipes at www.wasabi.co.nz/recipes.html. Also www.wasabi.org has a good selection. Another place is www.wasabikitchen.com. There are the basics there, but they add more all the time. |
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