Time: 1 hour 10 min.
Complexity: average
Servings: 4

This is not a real brain, but it looks very similar!

This spooky smoked salmon appetizer is perfect for a Halloween-themed party. All you need is one ripe avocado, cream cheese, cooked sushi rice, smoked salmon, red tobiko (flying fish roe), and a little time—prank successful!

Ingredients:

• 1 avocado
• Cottage cheese
• Cooked sushi rice
• Smoked salmon
• Tobiko (flying fish roe)
• Wasabi, soy sauce, pickled ginger for serving

Substituting ingredients
Measuring containers used

1 glass (st.) - 250 ml.
3/4 cup (st.) - 180 ml.
2/3 cup (st.) - 160 ml.
1/2 cup (st.) - 125 ml.
1/3 cup (st.) - 80 ml.
1/4 cup (st.) - 60 ml.
1 tablespoon (tbsp) - 15 ml.
1 teaspoon (tsp) - 5 ml.
1/5 teaspoon (tsp) - 1 ml.

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Preparation:

Step 1
• 
  Cut the avocado in half and remove the pit. Carefully peel each half. Form two small balls of cream cheese; press one ball into one half where the pit used to be.
Step 2
• 
  Done. Now the cream cheese is in both avocado halves.
Step 3
• 
  Press the two halves together, using the cream cheese to hold them together.
Step 4
• 
  Place cooled, cooked sushi rice on top of the avocado in a brain shape, leaving a small groove down the center.
  
  
Step 5
• 
  Thinly slice smoked salmon. Roll each piece into an irregular shape.
Step 6
• 
  Insert each rolled salmon slice into the rice, forming a brain shape. Work quickly and carefully, making sure your hands are clean and cool.
Step 7
• 
  Continue layering the salmon until the sides are completely covered, but a small indentation remains in the center of the "brain." Gently press the plastic wrap around the dish to seal the salmon pieces together and remove any protruding rice.
Step 8
• 
  Remove the wrapper and carefully spoon the tobiko (flying fish roe) into the indentation along the center of the brain.
  
  
Step 9
• 
  Press another sheet of plastic wrap over the brain to form it; carefully remove it.
Step 10
• 
  Now you have an appetizer that looks like a real brain, but tastes like a smoked salmon sushi roll.
Step 11
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  Serve the brain sushi roll with wasabi, soy sauce and pickled ginger.

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