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Sushi Brain

I made this for Halloween dinner as a sort of "slice and serve" meal, instead of as a dip as the recipe intended. I'm not sure how it would actually work as a dip.

There doesn't seem to be a written version of this recipe anywhere. It was originally part of a show break during an episode of Halloween Baking Championship and has been on the Food Network's YouTube channel since 2014. I've been eyeing it for a while, but the stars finally aligned for me to have all of the ingredients at the same time.

Ingredients:

whole avocado
cream cheese
prepared sushi rice
smoked salmon
roe

1. Halve avocado and peel the avocado. Remove pit.

2. Press cream cheese into pit cavity.

3. Press halves back together.

4. Put avocado on plate. Pack cooked sushi rice around avocado and keep doing so until you have built a brain shape.

5. Make indentations along the center of rice brain.

6. Separate slices of smoked salmon.

7. Roll into irregular pattern and place on rice brain.

8. Repeat until completely covered.

9. Press together with plastic wrap.

10. Spoon red tobiko (roe) into indentation to simulate blood. (I did not do this step.)


This was a big hit. I wish I'd had some nori on hand to have with it.
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From the NYT.

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons canola oil
3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
1 pound baby bok choy, halved lengthwise
Kosher salt and black pepper
¼ cup oyster sauce
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
1 ½ pounds boneless, skinless cod fillets, cut crosswise into 2-inch pieces
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 tablespoon lime juice
Cooked rice, soba or egg noodles, for serving

NYT method, paraphrased:
Sauté garlic and ginger in oil until fragrant. Add bok choy and cook, stirring frequently, until tender, and remove to a plate. Add oyster sauce and soy sauce and bring to a simmer, add fish. Simmer for ten minutes, turning halfway through, spooning sauce on top. Add lime juice and butter and simmer until thickened, approximately two minutes. Serve over rice.

Modifications and notes:
This was so good, although I (a) was very hungry, (b) used it more as an inspiration than a recipe, and (c) already knew I adored greens with oyster sauce. Modifications included substituting yu choy for bok choy, and J. Kenji López-Alt's recipe for Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce from his new book The Wok for the sauce (he adds cornstarch, water, and sugar to the oyster/soy mixture, and mixes it beforehand instead of in the pan) and adopted his method of a quick blanching for the greens before sautéeing. I didn't bother with the butter-and-lime step, instead drizzling some sesame oil and lemon juice (which I prefer to lime) over the dish to serve, and used bacon fat instead of canola oil, to get some smokiness. My fish broke up when I tried to flip it, but I think I cut the pieces smaller than I was meant to, and they cooked through very quickly. I want another serving right now.

Mods, can we have a "fish" tag?

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