Dragon Roll

I love sushi, but I usually eat or make very basic sushi. I don't know names of different fish, and unlike sushi connaisseur, I don't like wasabi and I don't taste the difference between good sushi rice and bad sushi rice. So my favorite sushi were cucumber rolls, california rolls, sushi with sashimi on top and so on. Several months ago, I went to some fast food sushi place and ordered this thing called "dragon roll". I don't think I ever tried it before, but because I like eel and I started liking avocados in sushi, I wanted to try. Since that day, "dragon roll" had become my favorite sushi.

This particular fast food place is not the area I frequent, so I decided to make it myself. There are many instructions online. It is actually amazing to see varieties of these instructions. People use so many different ingredients to make "dragon rolls".

My favorite one is the simplest one --- using tempra shrimp, avocado and eel. Here are the quick instructions on how to make this sushi.

What you need:

• Sushi rice (sushi mixed with vinegar etc.)
• Seaweed
• Frozen eel (you can find in Chinese grocery store)
• Avocado 
• Large shrimps and tempura powder --- If you don't want to fry and make mess in your kitchen, maybe you could just take out shrimp tempuras from Japanese restaurant. Two large tempura shrimps would make one roll of sushi.
• Eel sauce (available in Japanese or Chinese grocery store)
• Lemon or lemon juice 

 How to cook:

1. First thing is to make shrimp tempura. Follow the instructions on tempura powder package.

2. Second thing is to spread sushi rice on top of the half size seaweed. Don't roll with the full sheet. That will make a giant dragon roll.

3. Cover the rice created in step 2 with plastic wrap. Then turn up side down. So the plastic at the bottom and the seaweed on the top.

4. Place shrimp temupras on top.

5. Roll it.

6. Cook eel as in the instructions on the package. Cut them into small rectangles. Also cut avocado into similar size pieces. Put some lemon juice on avocado to avoid the colour going brown. Then place pieces of eel and avocado on top of the rolled sushi.

7. Wrap the plastic and roll. Cut into pieces on top of the plastic and remove plastic wrap and place them on the plate. Pour eel sauce and dragon rolls are ready!