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These crab sushi balls or rice balls are a true imitation of crab sushi rolls. They are easily tweakable and are delicious and fulfilling.
Do you like sushi? Do you crave from time to time easy-to-make snacks that are both delicious and fulfilling? Search no more. These sushi balls are what you can prepare in no time. They serve as a side dish, snack, or even one of the healthy dinner ideas you can prepare.
These crab sushi balls or rice balls are a true imitation of crab sushi rolls. They are easily tweakable and can include many ingredients alongside the main ones. These healthy dinner ideas include cooked rice, toasted seaweed, cream cheese, sesame oil, and soy sauce. Other ingredients include roasted sesame seeds, diced avocado, cucumber, carrots, crab sticks, tuna, or shrimp.
If leftover rice is in your fridge, these easy-to-make sushi balls make the perfect salty delight to prepare. Let’s get into this blog together and see how you can prepare them.
First, what are the ingredients of these sushi balls?
These sushi rice balls can be made with different ingredients. However, some main ingredients are essential to turn this recipe into a success story!
What you will need for this recipe are the following ingredients:
- Cooked rice: you can use either sushi rice or Calrose rice. Both will work.
- Sesame oil: This oil will add a different twist to the sushi balls.
- Cream cheese: cream cheese is an essential ingredient to add flavor to the balls and bring the ingredients together.
- Toasted seaweed: because ain’t no sushi without seaweed.
- Soy sauce: just a tablespoon. You can always dip your sushi balls in soy sauce when serving them.
- Rice vinegar: another essential ingredient not to miss.
- Vegetables or fruit: you can use avocado, cucumber, mango, and carrots, pickled cucumber, or pickled ginger.
- Seafood: I love adding crab. However, you can also add salmon, tuna, or shrimp.
How to make sushi balls?
Making these balls is super easy. Mix the rice, diced avocado, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sesame seeds, cream cheese, and chopped crab sticks in a bowl.
Mix the ingredients, add a tablespoon of soy sauce and mix one last time.
Take an amount of tablespoon from the mixture and roll them into a ball. Repeat until you are done with all the combination. Tada!
Why will you love preparing this recipe?
As I mentioned earlier, these sushi balls are super easy to make. They are loaded with flavors and can be prepared in no time.
You will love serving them as a side dish or even a snack. They make a perfect add-on to a lunch box if you plan to carry them to work. And yes, you can add them to your kids’ lunchbox and elevate their meals to another level.
What to fill these rice balls with?
The essential ingredients of these rice balls are listed above. Now, you can improvise when it comes to the filling:
- Cream cheese with shrimp and avocado
- Mayonnaise with shrimp and cucumber
- Mayonnaise with tuna and cucumber
- Crab with cucumber and cream cheese
You can also add different types of pickles, such as pickled ginger and pickled cucumber.
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These crab sushi balls or rice balls are a true imitation of crab sushi rolls. They are easily tweakable and are delicious and fulfilling.
Ingredients
- 220g equals 1.5 cups cooked rice (makes about 10 to 12 rice balls)
- 1/4 avocado
- 1/2 tbsp of sesame oil
- 40 g roasted seaweed
- 2 tsp. rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp of cream cheese
- 5 crab sticks
- 4 tbsps. soy sauce
Instructions
- Cook the rice
- Chop the avocado into dice
- Shred and chop the crab sticks.
- Mix cooked rice, avocado, sesame oil, roasted seaweed and sesame seeds, cream cheese, and crab in a bowl.
- Add soy sauce and mix to combine.
- Spoon one tablespoon of the mixture and roll it into a ball.
- Continue until you are done with all the mixture.
- Decorate the balls with roasted sesame.
- Serve with soy sauce or any other sauce of your choice.
Notes
- If you want to replace crab with shrimp, marinade them and cook them, then chop them to boost their flavor.
- If you feel like the balls are squishy, put them for an hour in the fridge.
Nutrition
Calories: 73 kcal per serving | Serving size: 1 sushi ball | Number of servings: 12
Total Fat 3 g | Saturated Fat 1 g | Cholesterol 3 mg | Sodium 378 mg | Potassium 47 mg | Total Carbohydrate 8 g | Dietary Fiber 2 g | Sugars 0 g | Protein 3 g | Vitamin A: 20% | Vitamin C: 14% | Calcium: 2% | Iron: 3%
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
