Hallo, Merry X'mas!
For the past two days I had been busy with potluck dinners with friends. Thus, it also called for some preparing of my favourite snacks and goodies.
When I first had vegetarian food, one of my favourite is the raw vegetable sushi. I would try it wherever it's on the menu and there's definitely no identical raw veg sushi in two places. The dressing, ingredients, all differ from place to place. It's a marvellously tasty, simple and healthy snack to make. And to my surprise, my vegetarian and omnivorous friends like it.
Even my mum, who don't quite fancy raw vegetables much. o_O
I usually use beetroot, carrots, pea sprouts, red capsicum, zucchini (optional), and cucumbers. The roots are shredded while the other vegetables are cut into fine strips. And because it's Christmas, I added some almond flour.
I buy my nori sheets from
Albert Centre market (third storey), where it's sold at
龍馬 at 50 sheets a pack for $5.50. To have a nice crisp nori, toast it for a few seconds in the oven, or over a gas flame. But were the sushi to be served beyond 10 minutes later, it wouldn't make much difference.
First spread the dressing. I looooooove
almond butter, so it's pretty much what I use most of the time. Especially since I make my own, I get quite generous with the stuff. And the best thing is that it tastes and smells so good, no seasoning is needed. So the sushi is holistically healthily made from whole food sources.
Next layer on the veggies, with roots first.
The zucchini, cucumbers and capsicums next. The finer rheir strips, the neater the sushi will be.
Last of all, the pea sprouts. Pea sprouts are loose and it's hard to put anything else on top of them so they have to go on last.
And with firm fingers, push the vegetables inwards and roll it up!
This was a good attempt. Yay!
And the finished sushi roll. :)
My friends commented this is less crunchy than the one I made last year. That's due to the zucchini added and less cucumbers. To have a crunchier sushi with higher water content, just swap the zucchini for cucumbers. Or try substituting zucchini with chinese pears for a sweeter sushi.
Other possible ingredients are daikon, chinese pear, lettuce, kale, spinach. avocado. Or for fruit sushi, with apples, pears, mangoes, dragonfruit, kiwi, strawberries.
Different combination of vegetables or fruit might call for different dressing. Alternate dressings are vegan mayo, plum sauce, cashew butter.
Have a healthy, lovely and wonderful Christmas!
