Food Network: Tempura Lobster and Enoki-Miso Salad Roll

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Tempura Lobster and Enoki-Miso Salad Roll
Copyright, 2000, Ming Tsai, All Rights Reserved

Ingredients
2 cups rice flour
1/2 tablespoon togarashi or chile powder
1 quart cold club soda water
1/2 tablespoon shiro-miso (light)
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons sake
1 tablespoon canola oil
4 sheets yaki-nori
4 raw lobster tails, sliced very thinly on the bias
1 package enoki mushrooms
1 package daikon sprouts

Salt and white pepper, to taste
Sushi Rice, recipe follows

Directions
Preheat a fryer or large stock pot of oil to 450
degrees. In a bowl, mix flour with togarashi and whisk in soda water until a
pancake batter thickness is achieved. In another bowl, whisk together the miso,
sugar and sake. Whisk in the oil. Lay one sheet of nori, shiny side down. Lay
lobster on the bottom 1/2 of the nori closest to you. Brush on a little of the
miso mix. Mix the remaining miso mix with the enokis and sprouts. Check for
seasoning. Lay a small layer of salad on the lobster. Using wet hands, lightly
pat on a small column of rice in the middle of the salad. Roll nori and lobster
around the rice. Moisten the edge with water to seal. Let rest 30 seconds before
frying. Repeat process. Dip the rolls in the tempura batter and fry until golden

brown, only 2 minutes. The lobster will be barely cooked. Drain on paper towels
and season very lightly with salt.

PLATING Place a small mound of salad on a serving plate. Slice roll both straight
and on the bias and surround the salad. Serve immediately.

Drink Suggestion: 1. Suishin, Japanese Sake 2. Laurent Perrier Champagne

Ingredients
MASTER SUSHI RICE
Copyright, 2000, Ming Tsai, All Rights Reserved

4 cups sushi rice (Calrose/short grain)
Water, up to Mount Fuji

1 cup rice wine vinegar
1/4 cup mirin
1/2 cup sugar

Directions
Wash rice at least 3 times or until water is clear.
Fill rice cooker or casserole with water to about 1-inch over rice. I highly
recommend a rice cooker - more than 2 billion people use them in Asia for a
reason. Slowly heat vinegar, mirin and sugar until very hot but not boiling.
Fold in 'su' (vinegar and sugar) with the hot rice, add enough so that the rice
has a tart/sweet taste. Rice should be shiny, not mushy. Carefully clean bowl
with damp cloth, cover and let rest for 30 minutes.