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Unagi Mango Roll
Yevhen Tkachenko
Sushi chef, Chorne More Roll Bar, Odesa, UA
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Unagi Mango Roll

1 h 15 min total55 min hands-onServes 2Hard

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Tiger prawn and eel with ripe mango inside black rice, unagi sauce poured over and toasted almond flakes on top.

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, Small dry pan, Long slicing knife, Cling film
Allergens
Crustaceans, Fish, Molluscs, Milk, Nuts, Soy, Gluten
Method
21 steps · 17 photographed · 7 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 14 min

3 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».

Ink rice

Film

Seasoned sushi rice with cuttlefish ink folded in while still warm, until every grain is black.

Ink added to cold rice sits in streaks. Added hot it takes evenly, and the vinegar keeps the taste clean.

  • 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

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Poached tiger prawns

Film

Prawns skewered straight, poached in salted water for ninety seconds and shocked in ice.

A prawn that curls will not lie in the roll, and one poached a minute too long goes to rubber.

  • Tiger prawns000 g
  • Salt000 g
Steps
4
Time
15 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes Enough for 2 rolls

Up to 4 hours ahead, chilled

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Toasted almond flakes

Flaked almonds moved constantly in a dry pan until just golden.

Raw flakes taste of nothing against unagi sauce. Thirty seconds too long and they taste burnt.

  • Flaked almonds000 g
Steps
2
Time
4 min
Hands-on
4 min

Makes Tops 2 rolls · keeps 3 days airtight

Up to 3 days ahead

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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
  • Cuttlefish ink000 g
  • Nori000 g
  • Tiger prawns000 g
  • Smoked eel, kabayaki000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 14 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.

CHOOSING4:00

Mango ripeness: the press test, and what to do with a soft one

TECHNIQUE7:00

Lining up prawn, eel and mango so every slice shows all three

KIT3:00

Skewering prawns straight for the poach

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 21 STEPS

17 photographed · 7 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 17 of the 21 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 7 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: keeping mango and prawn in line so every slice shows both — step 13 of 21.

  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. + 15 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

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

  1. 01

    Mango cut to the width of the prawn, exactly

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Unagi sauce warmed, not hot

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Almonds on last, after the sauce

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

Prawn poaching time and how ripe the mango can be before it slides out of the roll.

Written by Yevhen Tkachenko. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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