Mock Duck Sushi

This was my first time trying Linda McCartney's hoi sin shredded duck and it certainly wont be the last! It's the bomb! I bought it weeks ago as I don't live near anywhere that sells it and I finally pulled it out on Tuesday to make this!

Apologies for not having any photos of how to actually roll the sushi but have a look on pinterest and I'm sure yo'll find the answer. Maybe I'll film it next time!

You're going to need a bamboo rolling mat for this but they can be picked up for next to nothing.

Mock duck sushi

Ingredients

For the rice:

2 cups sushi rice

2 tbsp rice vinegar

1/2 tbsp salt

2 tbsp sugar

2 cups water

For the sushi:

1 packet of Linda McCartney's shredded duck

Nori sheets

1 sweet red pepper

1 avocado

3 sprig onions

1 carrot

A wedge of red cabbage

Optional extras:

soy sauce

wasabi paste

pickled ginger

sesame seeds

other sauces suck as sweet chilli

Method

Start with the rice, I make this in the morning usually so I don't have think about it until I'm ready to make sushi. Rinse your rice really well until the water runs clear. Put in a pan with the 2 cups of water and bring to the boil. Once starting to boil cover and simmer for 15 mins. Turn of the heat but leave rice covered for another 10 minutes. 

Mix together the vinegar, salt and sugar and warm until it's all dissolved. Stir through the sushi rice and leave to cool until you're ready to get rolling!

The duck gets cooked according to the packets instructions, stir fry in a little oil for 7-8 mins, add 50ml water half way through. Set aside to cool.

Cut all of your veg into thin strips, as thin as you can manage but no need to get stressed about it.

Lay out your bamboo mat, place a nori sheet on top of it, shiny side down. Get yourself a bowl of water to dip your hands in to stop yourself getting covered in sticky rice. Use your fingers to spread a thin layer of rice on the sheet, leaving a space at the top off the sheet, roughly the top 1/4.

Lay out your veg and your duck in a line across the sheet, you don't want to fill it too much as it'll get hard to roll, you soon figure out a good amount of filling as you go.

Take the edge of the bamboo mat closest to you and tightly roll the sushi away from you.

Wet the clear strip of nori sheet to help stick it down and give it another roll.

Repeat until you've made enough as you'd like or until you run out of nori.

Slice into pieces or eat like a sushi burrito and enjoy with soy sauce, wasabi and whatever else you fancy!