The Recipe

Kid Friendly California Roll Bowls

The Base

  • 2-3 cups rice (sushi rice preferred, but try making it healthier and less tasty with cauliflower rice)

  • 1 lb imitation crab/surimi

  • 3 tbsp mayo (better if you use home made)

  • Sriracha to taste (i like it spicy, so i use a lot)

The flex spots for the rest of the bowl

  • Avocado

  • Cucumber

  • Jalapeno

  • Cilantro

  • Kimchi

  • Wasabi

  • Dried Seaweed

  • Whatever your heart desires

Cook your rice in whichever method you prefer. I’m not great at it so I’m not going to teach you how to make rice. I should get a rice cooker.

Separate the imitation crab meat with your fingers into easy to fork pieces into a bowl. Mix with the mayo (and sriracha if you want).

Place rice in bowl, put meat in a mound in the center, surround with your other ingredients to make it pretty. It’s kid friendly if you use kid friendly stuff.

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The Bullshit

I know, shocking concept, putting something that’s not in a bowl into a bowl. Not breaking any ground here, but i got some imitation crab meat at the store the other week and started to play around with this. Turned out my kids liked it so I kept going with it. Turns out if you put “Kid Friendly” in your recipes they get more hits too.

This is really a super easy weeknight dinner to throw together, and it lets you practice your knife skills. You can make it as nice looking as you want, and then just stir all that shit together so it doesn’t matter anymore. Or just stir it all together at the start.

The world is your bowl of stuff you throw together and eat on a Tuesday.