🍣 Shrimp Tempura Roll

Name: Shrimp Tempura Roll
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Japan · Japanese-style sushi bars worldwide
Ingredients: 300 g cooked sushi rice; 6 large shrimp, peeled and deveined; 60 g tempura batter mix (flour and egg); 90 ml ice-cold water; 1 ripe avocado, sliced; 2 sheets nori; Oil for frying

Origin: Japan · Japanese-style sushi bars worldwide

140kcal

per serving · 200 g

70kcal

per 100 g

5 gProtein2.5 g / 100 g

7 gFat3.5 g / 100 g

16 gCarbs8 g / 100 g

A shrimp tempura roll wraps crisp battered shrimp and slices of ripe avocado in seasoned sushi rice and a sheet of nori. The contrast is the point: a warm, crunchy center against cool, creamy avocado and soft rice. It is cut into six to eight pieces and served with pickled ginger and wasabi.

Diets

✓

No pork

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

✓

Low-carb8 g carbs per 100 g

Not vegetarianbecause of: shrimp tempura

Not veganbecause of: shrimp tempura

Contains glutenbecause of: shrimp tempura

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Crustaceans ⚠ Eggs

What it is made of

shrimp tempuraavocadosushi ricenori

Recipe

2 servings50 min

Ingredients

300 g cooked sushi rice
6 large shrimp, peeled and deveined
60 g tempura batter mix (flour and egg)
90 ml ice-cold water
1 ripe avocado, sliced
2 sheets nori
Oil for frying

Method

Whisk the tempura batter with ice-cold water until just combined; lumps are fine.
Straighten the shrimp with a few shallow cuts underneath, dip in batter and fry at 175–180 °C for 2–3 minutes until crisp. Drain.
Lay nori on a bamboo mat, spread half the rice evenly over it, leaving a 2 cm strip at the top.
Arrange 3 shrimp and half the avocado along the bottom edge and roll tightly with the mat.
Repeat, then slice each roll into 8 pieces with a wet knife.

How to make it lighter

Order or make a roll with cucumber in place of part of the tempura to cut the fried portion.
Count pieces: a full roll of 6–8 pieces is one meal-sized portion, so pair it with a light side like cucumber salad rather than a second roll.
Drain fried shrimp well on a rack or paper — less clinging oil means fewer calories, since 1 tbsp oil ≈ 120 kcal.

History

Rolls built around tempura and avocado are a product of the sushi bars that spread across North America from the 1970s onward rather than of traditional Edo-style sushi. Today the shrimp tempura roll is one of the most ordered rolls on sushi menus worldwide.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →