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Homemade Easy, Vegan Sushi rolls recipe

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EASY Vegan sushi rolls:
Ingredients
  • Cooked white rice, still warm. (or sushi rice, recipe below)
  • 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
  • Or shredded
  • Cucumbers, cut in thin sticks
  • Firm Tofu cut in long sticks
  • Bell peppers
  • Avocado
  • Daikon
  • All cut into long thin sticks
Instructions:
  1. Lay out a piece of seaweed.
  2. Top with about 1/3 c warm rice at one end.
  3. Sprinkle rice with a little soy sauce (optional)
  4. Roll up tightly, like jelly roll.
  5. Seal edge with just a touch of Wasabe paste or soy sauce, or water.
  6. Slice with a sharp serrated knife.
For Optional ingredients:
  1. Add a stick of carrot, tofu, cucumber, red pepper, or whatever to the rice, and roll up tightly, and seal. Slice as before.
  2. Optional: Sprinkle tops with a little sesame seed and/or chives. (can also mix some into the rice before rolling)

Serve with wasabi paste or hot mustard. (Mix mustard powder with a little water or soy sauce)

Or just soy sauce

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Tips and ideas:

  1. 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!)
  2. 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!
  3. Just a small dab will seal the roll.
  4. 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.
  5. Be sure and put extra Wasabe or mustard paste on the table for people to use at their own risk.
  6. It turns into a fun part of the gathering just watching people put too much Wasabe on their sushi roll!
  7. I make these all the time for a quick lunch for myself...
  8. You can roll the sushi without the seaweed, if you prefer, but it takes practice, using a bamboo matt.
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Traditional SUSHI RICE:

  • Use 2 C Short grain rice. Rinse until water runs clear.
  • Put rice, 1 t salt and 2 C water in pan. Sit 10 minutes.
  • Cover bring to boil
  • reduce to simmer very low, 15 minutes, DO NOT UNCOVER.
  • Remove from heat and sit with lid on for 10 minutes.
  • Spread rice on sheet pan to cool
  • Heat 2 T rice vinegar
  • 2 T sugar
  • 1/2 t salt
  • Until sugar dissolves
  • Gently Mix into cooled rice.
  • Roll up as above.
  • Can be made up to 6 hours in advance. Slice right before serving.

Its important to blend rice gently so not to mash.

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