DIY Sushi Rolls

After spending a wonderful make-you-own-sushi-roll dinner at Ryan’s cousins’ place, we were hooked. It was so delicious, easy and FUN! I’ve always enjoyed eating with my hands, it’s so much more fun, like with Indian food, Nicaraguan and Mexican, etc…for some reason it taste better, wouldn’t you agree? ;)

We decided to try it at home and we’ve done it so often, since it’s so easy and oh so yummy! Ingredients vary since you can pretty much do with what veggies you like or even what you have available. We’ve done it without the fish, this photo is from the first time we did it, so we bought wild-caught salmon and nori sheets (find ‘em at local Asian market or Whole Foods). We’ve also experimented with lettuce, instead of nori sheets, it’s great, and if you know about Korean BBQ, you know it’s so good too.

• You can use rice but we didn’t (we don’t eat rice anymore at home, only special occasions)
• You can use lettuce (I used red-tip) instead of nori sheets.
• For sauce, you can use soy but we don’t use soy, so the first time we used tamari which I don’t like and decided to not make a habit of using it, so I made our own sauce (recipe below) and it’s waaaaaay better than soy sauce, trust me.
• Be creative and try different tastes and textures.

We started with a yummy kelp noodles salad and had the rolls later. It was more than enough food, bellies were happy. I’ll list the ingredients we used in the photo.

INGREDIENTS (*organic):

If you use a food processor, it’s a gazillion times faster. Who likes chopping for an hour? Uh, not me. So, cut everything into slices, just keep in mind you’ll be wrapping a bunch of veggies slices, so make them not too thick. You can use a spiralizer here (cheap stuff)

Nori sheets
Carrots*
Avocado*
Zucchini*
Alfalfa Sprouts (try radish, clover, etc)
Celery*
Lettuce*
Tamari or sushi sauce (recipe below)
Wasabi powder (fint at Whole Foods or Asian market)
Wild-Caught Salmon
Fresh ginger (I say fresh cause it’s not the pink kind. Find the “Ginger People” organic brand at Whole Foods)

SUSHI SAUCE (to replace soy sauce):

This is a really good sauce for salads too.

2 Tbsp Organic sesame oil
2 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil*
1 garlic clove minced
1 Tbsp of lemon juice
Mix all together in a small container

HOW TO ROLL:

I always grab my nori sheet, put down a piece of lettuce and anything flat (like in the pic, zucchini, avocado), then I just stack all the other stuff on top, get a teaspoon of sauce and drip over veggies, then roll, tucking the sheet as you’re rolling. With nori, it’s good if the sauce gets to it, cause if it’s moist, it’ll stick better together. Then just put in your mouth and enjoy bliss.