California Roll Deviled Eggs

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 12 hard-cooked eggs
• 1/2 ripe avocado
• 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon purchased wasabi paste (or 1 tablespoon wasabi powder mixed with 1 tablespoon water)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 ounces alaska king crab meat or 1/3-1/2 cup alaska king crab meat
• 1 english cucumber, sliced into 24 fans (see tip in instruction #4)
• nori komi furikake (sesame seed-seaweed sprinkle)
• 2 tablespoons tobiko (flying fish roe)

Recipe

• 1 halve the eggs lengthwise and transfer the yolks to a small bowl. set the egg halves on a platter.
• 2 in a mixing bowl, mash the avocado well with a fork, then add the yolks and mash to a smooth consistency. add the mayonnaise, wasabi paste, and salt, and mix until smooth. spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a plain or large star tip, then pipe the mixture evenly into the egg halves. alternatively, fill the eggs with a spoon, dividing the filling evenly.
• 3 top each egg half with a little crabmeat, a cucumber fan, a sprinkle of furikake and about 1/4 teaspoon tobiko.
• 4 tip: to make tiny cucumber fans, quarter a 4-inch piece of english cucumber lengthwise. then cut each quarter into 18 thin slices -- the goal is to get 3 tiny slices per “fan.”.