These homemade Bacon Avocado Sushi Rolls are slightly unconventional but SO insanely tasty!
This is going to freak a lot of people out, but I’ve become OBSESSED with putting bacon in my sushi rolls.
I know, I know! It’s wrong on so many levels.
It’s also SO right on just about every single one of those levels. So, so right. The crispy, smoky, salty crunch it brings to the table is seriously out of this world.
An unexpectedly awesome restaurant I visited in Destin recently, had this equally unexpected specialty sushi roll on the menu. Dubbed the “Canadian Roll,” it featured smoked salmon, bacon, cream cheese, green onion, cucumber, and avocado. SO WEIRD!!! My only regret after tasting this abomination was that I hadn’t ordered a second. It’s was as delicious as it was weird and left me clamoring for more.
I may or may not tried to convince Paul that we needed to eat there at eleventy more times before heading home the following day. Who needs to try other restaurants when BACON SUSHI is an option!?
I agreed to “see other restaurants” as long as he agreed to help me baconize sushi at home and make our own bacon avocado sushi rolls. I’m nothing if not determined. Since we tend to do our own DIY sushi date nights around here, I immediately picked up everything I would need to recreate the roll at home.
It. Was. Magical.
Homemade Bacon Avocado Sushi Rolls
As written, recipe makes 2 rolls. Feel free to double (or quadruple) as needed for a sushi smorgasbord with family or friends.
Looking for a vegan alternative? Try our tasty homemade vegan sushi rolls!
Homemade Bacon Avocado Sushi Rolls
Ingredients
- ½ cup uncooked sushi rice
- 1 cup water
- 1 TBSP seasoned rice vinegar
- 2-4 slices bacon cooked til crispy
- 1 small jalapeño*
- ¼ English cucumber
- ½ avocado
- 2 oz fresh sliced sashimi
- ½ oz cream cheese plus extra to taste
- 2 green onion stalks
- 2 nori seaweed sheets
- Toasted sesame seeds + chia seeds for topping
- Sriracha for dipping
- soy sauce for dipping
Instructions
- Heat a small pot to medium-high heat.
- Rinse your rice.
- Add water and rice to the pot and bring to a boil.
- Next reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for twenty minutes.
- Uncover rice and season with vinegar, salt, and sugar.
- Fluff with a fork and allow to cool in a separate bowl.
TIP: I like to lay out all my veggies, toppings, and sauces while the rice cooks, so that once the rice is ready, I can quickly roll everything together and start chowing down! You can also cook your bacon at this time via skillet or baking method. Prep your fish, cream cheese (optional) and veggies while the rice simmers away:
- Remove the stem, veins, and seeds from your jalapeño and slice into thin strips.
- Peel and seed cucumber if desired (I didn’t) and slice into thin strips vertically.
- Slice your avocado, salmon and/or tuna into strips as well.
- Roll cream cheese into two ropes long enough to spread across your seaweed sheet horizontally.
- Cover a bamboo mat with plastic wrap and top with a sheet of nori.
- Using a large spoon, spread rice atop the seaweed sheet in a thin layer. For a smaller roll, don’t spread the rice all the way to the end of the sheet, leave an inch or so of bare seaweed at the end. You can slice this part off or leave it be.
- Towards the bottom end of the sheet, arrange your veggies, fish, and cream cheese in 2-3 compact rows, leaving about half an inch of rice on the bottom end of the sheet.
- First time rolling sushi? :: click here :: for a photo tutorial of the entire process.
- Roll, slice, and sprinkle with sesame seeds!
- Serve alongside your favorite sauces + enjoy! You may now join me on team #OBSESSEDWITHBACONSUSHI!
Notes
Nutrition
GAH! IT’S SO GOOD! It kind of has that super satisfying crunch as if you added crispy tempura to the he inside of the roll only instead of carby panko you’re going all out with bacon.
In fact, I’m pretty sure I could convince my husband that this is a breakfast food. I mean, it has avocado, cream cheese, bacon… It’s practically a bagel!
*I now interrupt this post to daydream about bagels*
If you get a chance to try these bacon avocado sushi rolls, let me know! You can leave me a comment here (LOVE checking those daily!) or tag @PEASandCRAYONS on Instagram so I can happy dance over your creations. I can’t wait to see what you whip up!
Since realizing that chopsticks are essentially the most fun ever, my 2 year old insists on eating everything from cereal to popcorn to strawberries with training chopsticks. I can’t handle the cuteness.
Maybe if I started eating my popcorn with sushi I’d shovel it into my face at a more reasonable speed… this kid is on to something!
looking for my easy peasy sushi rolling tutorial?
In case you missed it, check out my super detailed step-by-step homemade sushi tutorial. The post includes lots of tips, tricks, and photos that’ll help you roll your own sushi like a pro! You won’t believe how easy it is!
It is believed that the Japanese combined raw fish and rice for the first time in order to store fish, and this happened in the 6th century AD. I love sushi. A very healthy and tasty dish.
This is my kind of sushi all the way! Putting bacon in it was definitely the right call! 😉 So so good!
I’m a tad in love with it! Thanks Nellie!
Oh my gosh. Now THIS is my kind of sushi! Nom nom nom.
Thanks April! xo
We looooved joe pattys for our seafood and sushi fish when we were stationed in pcola! I’ve never found another fish market that good and we’ve always lived on the water wherever we’ve been.
That’s where we picked up the fish for this sushi roll! I don’t know why I didn’t frequent JP when we lived here the first time back when P and I fist got married but OHMYGOSH – I’ll forever be a customer for the rest of our stationing. They’re phenomenal and the quality is seriously top notch. Come visit!!! We can grab lunch! 🙂
How ironic – as you were working on this post, I was mashing avocado and bacon together and eating it on crackers.
Yours is a genius idea!
Thanks Jane! That snack combo is the BEST!
As a Canadian, this made me laugh, and laugh, and go, “Wait, what?”
Right?! Why on earth would they call the roll that? It wasn’t even canadian bacon that they used ironically, just bacon bacon #SMH #tastythough
It works surprisingly well!
just when I thought bacon couldn’t get better… you make it sushi. When my cholesterol goes up, I’m blaming you.
Blame away, I’ll nurse you back with veggies <3 haha thanks Laura!
This is brilliant and completely insanely amazing!! Imy niece is a sushi fanatic and she’s going to go crazy for this!!
PS… Best hand model ever!!!
I hope she adores it!!! Seriously bacon is the best thing to happen to my sushi game in a long time and that’s so weird to say but SO DELICIOUS! <3 Thanks Holly!
There is nothing wrong with putting bacon in your sushi rolls! This looks and sounds amazing!!! 🙂
Rachel
Simply Rachel Nicole
Glad you’re on board Rachel! <3