Vegan Sushi rolls
EASY Vegan sushi rolls:
Ingredients
- Cooked white rice, still warm.
- Flat seaweed sheets, Nori.
- Wasabe or dry mustard powder
- Soy sauce
Optional ingredients:
- Rice wine vinegar
- black sesame seeds
- Pickled ginger
- Chives, chopped
- Partially cooked carrot sticks
- Cucumbers, cut in thin sticks
- Firm Tofu cut in long sticks
- Red Bell peppers
- Avocado
- all cut into long thin sticks
Instructions:
- Lay out a piece of seaweed.
- Top with about 1/3 c warm rice at one end.
- Sprinkle rice with a little soy sauce (optional)
- Roll up tightly, like jelly roll.
- Seal edge with just a touch of Wasabe paste or soy sauce.
- Slice with a sharp serrated knife.
For Optional ingredients:
- Add a stick of carrot, tofu, cucumber, red pepper, or whatever to the rice, and roll up tightly, and seal. Slice as before.
- Optional: Sprinkle tops with a little sesame seed and/or chives. (can also mix some into the rice before rolling)
Tips:
- You can either lay out all the ingredients and have your guests roll them or you can prepare them and slice them in 1 inch pieces. If you aren't familiar with Wasabe it is HOT! It comes in a tube for easy use, or in dry powder. (Watch ingredients though... I have seen some Wasabe paste made with Lactose!)
- If you can't find vegan Wasabe, just use regular dry mustard powder, and add enough water to form a paste.... It is very hot too!
- Just a small dab will seal the roll.
- NOTES: Seaweed is found usually in the oriental sections of super markets. They come in flat packs, about the size of a piece of paper.
- Be sure and put extra Wasabe or mustard paste on the table for people to use at their own risk.
- It turns into a fun part of the gathering just watching people put too much Wasabe on their sushi roll!
- I make these all the time for a quick lunch for myself...
- You can roll the sushi without the seaweed, if you prefer, but it takes practice, using a bamboo matt.
For Traditional sushi roll:
- Use 2 C Short grain rice. Rinse until water runs clear.
- Out rice and 2 C water in pan. Sit 10 minutes.
- Cover bring to boil
- reduce to simmer very low, 10 minutes, DO NOT UNCOVER.
- Remove from heat and sit with lid on for 15 minutes.
- Spread rice on sheet pan to cool
- Heat 2 T rice vinegar
- 2 T sugar
- 1/2 t salt
- Until sugar dissolves
- Mix into cooled rice.
- Roll up as above .
- Can be made up to 6 hours in advance. Slice right before serving.