Vegetarian Sushi Recipe (Also Vegan) - Ingredients And Directions On How To Make The Perfect Sushi

This vegetarian sushi recipe is more of a tutorial to get you started. Once you get through a few practice sessions, sushi makes an incredibly easy vegan dish for a snack, dinner or addition to your next pot luck.

Sea vegetables are packed with minerals, and the nori sheets used in making sushi are a tasty way to get his highly nutritious food into your diet.

This recipe will serve 4 people as a main dish.

Vegetarian Sushi Recipe Ingredients

* 1 cup short grain brown rice
* 1-2 Tbsp brown rice or apple cider vinegar
* 4 sheets of nori
* 1 carrot, julienned
* Section of zucchini, julienned
* 1 mushroom, sliced
* 1 Tbsp tamari (or soy sauce)
* 1 green onion, sliced lengthwise

Vegetarian Sushi Equipment

You'll find things much easier if you get a sushi rolling mat, although it isn't necessary. There are kits with a lot of fancy stuff that are expensive, but you can find a rolling mat individually for a few dollars. There should be some in a grocery store or a Chinese food store.

Vegetarian Sushi Recipe Directions

1. Before you start, cook the rice by bringing 2 cups of lightly salted water to a boil, adding the rice and then turning it down to simmer for 45 minutes. In place of white sushi rice, the short grain brown rice is sticky enough but has more nutrients than white. Long grain brown rice will not work. Stir in a tablespoon or two of vinegar, so that the rice sticks to itself, and let it cool.
2. The mushrooms need to be started ahead of time as well. Place the slices in a container with a lid that seals, then add a pinch of sea salt and about a tablespoon of tamari, seal the container and shake. Leave the mushrooms for about an hour, and they will become soft. The excess tamari needs to be squeezed off the mushrooms, since it will seep through your sushi roll and make things too moist.
3. Lay a nori sheet out on the rolling mat, with the grooves in the nori parallel to the direction you're facing.
4. Spread rice onto the nori sheet, leaving a gap on the back edge to seal the roll. Lay a small amount of vegetables in a row on the edge of the sheet closest to you, perpendicular to the direction you are facing. Roll the sheet around that row of vegetables. You'll need to press tightly backwards (to you), and slightly down onto the roll. Don't squish it, but the roll should be tight. Take the rolling mat out a bit so that you don't roll it into the sushi, and continue rolling tightly until you get to the end of the nori, where the gap was left to seal the roll closed.
5. Letting the sushi roll sit a few minutes allows the nori to soften from the moisture in the rice. Once it's ready, cut the roll into slices and you now have created the perfect vegetarian sushi recipe. The common accompaniments are a dipping bowl of tamari, pickled ginger and wasabi.

To watch a free video of me making this vegetarian sushi recipe, so I can show you the exact techniques that will make the perfect sushi

Heather Nauta is a registered holistic nutritionist who teaches you how to live a healthy vegan/vegetarian lifestyle, including how to get proper nutrition, enough protein, vitamin b12 and other minerals, and how to make an amazing variety of simple, fast healthy recipes that taste incredible for you and your family.