How to Make Vegan Sushi
Vegan sushi is easy to make and it's delicious too. You can try tons of different fillings such as tempeh, shiitake mushrooms, peanuts, and Korean sweet potatoes in your vegan sushi recipes. This recipe, a classic California roll, can be your first step in making successful vegan sushi. Experiment with other recipes and diversify your vegan diet.
- Difficulty:
- Moderate
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- 1 cup sushi rice
- Glass bowl
- 4 tbs. of rice vinegar
- 1 tbs. of sugar
- Wooden spoon
- Plastic wrap
- 1/2 avocado
- 1/2 cucumber
- Knife
- Bamboo mat
- Tongs
- 4 sheets of nori
- Small bowl
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Prepare Your Sushi
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Buy your ingredients at an Asian market. You'll find fresh ingredients that correspond to your vegan needs.
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Have your ingredients ready. It's so much easier to assemble your sushi when the ingredients are set out in an assembly line.
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Use fresh ingredients for your vegan sushi.
Prepare Your Rice
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Cook your rice according the directions listed on the package.
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Cook the rice until it is tender but firm.
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Place the rice in a glass bowl after cooking, and sprinkle 2 tbs. of rice vinegar and 1 tbs. of sugar on top.
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Mix the rice with a large wooden spoon.
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Cover the rice bowl with plastic wrap and wait until the rice reaches slightly above room temperature.
Prepare Your Filling
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Peel your avocado and remove the central seed.
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Peel a hothouse cucumber and remove the seedy pulp.
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Slice the avocado and cucumber into long thin strips.
Make Your Vegan Sushi
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Lay out your bamboo mat on a table.
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Toast the sheets of nori by holding them over a flame with tongs for a few seconds.
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Place a nori sheet on the bamboo mat.
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Place a small bowl of water with a little rice vinegar mixed in near the mat. You will need to dip your fingers in the water while you are working with the warm rice.
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Wet your hands and take a one cup of rice into a small handful.
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Pat rice onto your nori sheet, 1/3 of an inch or less. Spread it over 2/3 of the seaweed roll and leave the other 1/3 bare.
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Layer the avocado slices and cucumber.
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Sprinkle the filling with sesame seeds.
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Roll the sheet of nori using your bamboo mat from the filled edge towards the seaweed-only edge. Seal the seaweed-only edge of the roll with rice vinegar.
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Cut your vegan sushi with a serrated knife.
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Tips & Warnings
Use the proper sushi rice to create your vegan sushi. Other types of rice will interfere with the flavor of your sushi.
Don't use avocado if you won't eat your sushi right away. It will become brown and soft over time.
