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Garlic Butter Sushi Bake
🇯🇵 Japanese

Garlic Butter Sushi Bake

🇯🇵 Japanese

A casserole-style take on sushi: seasoned sushi rice layered with a creamy salmon topping, baked and eaten scooped onto nori sheets. This garlic butter version is finished with garlic and butter. Ready in about 55 minutes.

Prep 20 min Cook 35 min Serves 4 Medium

Ingredients

  • Butter2 tbsp
  • Garlic3 cloves, minced
  • Sugar1 tbsp
  • Cream Cheese60 g
  • Rice Vinegar3 tbsp
  • Salmon300 g, cooked and flaked
  • Nori Seaweed10 sheets
  • Sushi Rice2 cups, uncooked
  • Kewpie Mayonnaise1/3 cup

Optional extras

  • Spring Onions2, sliced
  • Toasted Sesame Seeds1 tbsp
  • Hot Sauce1 tbsp sriracha

Instructions

  1. 1

    Rinse and cook the sushi rice; season while warm with rice vinegar, sugar and a pinch of salt.

  2. 2

    Heat the oven to 200°C. Press the rice evenly into a greased baking dish.

  3. 3

    Mix flaked salmon with cream cheese, mayonnaise and sriracha; spread over the rice.

  4. 4

    Bake 15–20 minutes until hot and lightly browned on top.

  5. 5

    Garnish with sesame seeds and spring onions; serve with nori sheets for scooping.

  6. 6

    Melt the butter with garlic and spoon it over just before serving.

Chef's tip

Bake by visual cues as well as time: every oven runs a little differently.

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