Homemade Vegan Sushi Recipe

Sushi is one of the best-known dishes of Japanese cuisine worldwide and the favorite food of many people. There are many varieties of sushi, but they generally consist of rolled-up bites of rice, seaweed, fish, and vegetables. Sushi filling can be very varied and these makis and uramakis that I have prepared are filled with fruit and vegetables. The process of cooking and preparing sushi rice is an art, therefore, it is very laborious, and so I bring you a homemade vegan sushi recipe a little more simplified so that everyone can prepare it.

Ingredients to make homemade vegan Sushi:

• 5 sheets of nori seaweed
• 1 cup of sushi rice
• 25 milliliters of rice vinegar
• 10 grams of sugar
• 1 banana
• 2 pineapple slices
• 1 avocado
• 1 carrot
• 1 cup of water (240 milliliters)
• 15 grams of salt
• ½ green bell pepper

How to make homemade vegan sushi:

1. Wash the sushi rice in water by rubbing it with your hands in a strainer until the starch is removed.
2. Changing the water several times until it comes out clear or do it directly under the water tap.
3. Next, put the rice in a saucepan and cover it with water (the same amount of water as rice).
4. Cook the rice with the lid on over medium heat for 2 minutes, lower the heat and let it boil for another 12 minutes over low heat.
5. Turn off the stove and let the rice rest with the lid on for another 15 minutes.
6. Let it cool to room temperature.
7. Prepare the “sushi-zu” or topping for the rice by slightly heating the rice vinegar and dissolving the sugar and salt in it.
8. Let it cool and mix with the cooked rice.
9. Prepare the vegetables and fruit for homemade vegan sushi by cutting them into julienne strips or long slices.
10. Place the bamboo mat on a flat surface and a piece of transparent film on top (for ease).
11.  Place a sheet of nori seaweed on top, cover it with a layer of rice about half a centimeter thick, leaving the upper end free.
12. Place the fruit and vegetable slices or sticks along the bottom end of the seaweed.
13. Choose the combinations of vegetarian sushi that you like the most, these are the ones I have made: banana and pineapple make; banana, pineapple and avocado make and carrot, avocado and green pepper remake.
14. Carefully roll up the sheet of nori seaweed with the help of the mat, squeezing a little so that it becomes a compact roll and does not fall apart.
15. Brush the top end with water and squeeze the roll so the seaweed sticks.
16. To make the uramaki, simply change the order of the layers: first place the rice on the mat, then the seaweed on top and the filling along the bottom edge.
17. Serve homemade vegan sushi with soy sauce, a dash of wasabi, or marinated ginger.