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Amaterasu Roll
Daria Melnyk
Sushi chef, Chorne More Roll Bar, Odesa, UA
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Amaterasu Roll

1 h total45 min hands-onServes 2Medium

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Smoked eel laid over the outside, tomato and cucumber inside, and a hat of chilli threads there for the smell as much as the heat.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Makisu rolling mat, Long slicing knife, Rice paddle, Cling film
Allergens
Fish, Milk, Soy, Gluten
Method
18 steps · 15 photographed · 6 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 17 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Seasoned sushi rice

Film

Short-grain rice folded with vinegar, sugar and salt while hot, then fanned to body temperature.

Rice rolled hot melts the cream cheese and steams the cucumber; rice rolled cold will not hold. The window is narrow.

  • Short-grain rice000 g
  • Rice vinegar000 g
Steps
5
Time
45 min
Hands-on
15 min

Makes Enough for 2 rolls · use within 3 hours

Same day only

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Eel sheet

Film

Kabayaki eel sliced lengthwise on a long diagonal and laid edge to edge on cling film.

Straight slices crack over the curve of the roll. The diagonal gives each piece enough give to follow it.

  • Smoked eel, kabayaki000 g
Steps
3
Time
10 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes Covers 1 roll

Up to 2 hours ahead, covered

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Sushi rice000 g
  • Nori000 g
  • Smoked eel, kabayaki000 g
  • Tomato000 g
  • Avocado000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 17 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Kabayaki eel: vacuum packs, and what a good one looks like

TECHNIQUE7:00

Wrapping the outside of an uramaki in eel, filmed from above

KIT5:00

The mat, the film, and cutting eight even pieces

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 18 STEPS

15 photographed · 6 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 15 of the 18 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 6 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: laying the eel over the roll without it tearing — step 11 of 18.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 12 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Daria Melnyk watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Seeding and drying the tomato

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Wiping the knife between every cut

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Chilli threads on at the table, never before

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The rice seasoning ratio, and how thin the eel is sliced so it wraps the roll without cracking.

Written by Daria Melnyk. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

Read it — $6.99

NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

415 verified cooks · 94% said it worked

Only people who bought the recipe and showed the dish they made can leave a note. Nobody is paid for it.

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