Tuna Nigiri

Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 1 nigiri)

Ingredients

• 1/4  teaspoon  salt
• 1/8  teaspoon  freshly ground black pepper
• 1  (8-ounce) ahi tuna fillet
• 2  cups  cooked Sushi Rice
• 1  teaspoon  prepared wasabi
• 8  (1 x 1/2-inch) strips nori (seaweed)

Preparation

Heat a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle tuna with salt and pepper. Add tuna to pan; cook 1 minute on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Cut tuna into 8 strips and cool.

Shape 1/4 cup rice into a rectangle about the size of 1 tuna strip. Place 1 tuna strip across middle joints of fingers, palm side up. Spread 1/8 teaspoon wasabi over tuna strip; top with shaped rice. Close hand and gently press rice and tuna together.

Wrap 1 nori strip around center of nigiri, ending underneath rice. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

Nutritional Information

Calories:

100 (4% from fat)

Fat:

0.4g (sat 0.1g,mono 0.1g,poly 0.1g)

Protein:

7.8g

Carbohydrate:

15.4g

Fiber:

0.5g

Cholesterol:

13mg

Iron:

1mg

Sodium:

159mg

Calcium:

6mg