This is a super healthy take on sushi, using a wild rice and quinoa mix instead of the usual white rice. This is a wonderful mixture of brown and red rice with quinoa, which you can find in most health food shops or specialty supermarkets. Also, I use an avocado paste to make the rice sticky, rather than sugar and vinager. You can literally put any seasonal vegetables inside your nori wraps, some tofu would be wonderful inside too. It's a great recipe to clean out what's left in your fridge. It's SO easy, SO tasty, and a very filling lunch or dinner, so you will feel satisfied for hours. Really can't wait for you to try this one. Enjoy!
Veggie nori rolls with wild rice and quinoa
Ingredients:
- 1 large carrot, sliced
- 1 zucchini, sliced
- 1 capsicum, sliced
- 1 avocado, mashed
- Handfull of coriander
- 3 seaweed sheets (1 sheet makes 2 rolls)
- 1.5 cups wild rice & quinoa mix
- juice of half a lime
- a bamboo sushi mat (for rolling)
*TIP: Cover your bamboo sushi mat with glad wrap before rolling. This will stop it from getting dirty.
Directions:
Cook rice to the directions, add a little salt to the water while it's boiling. Once ready, let it cool, or place in the fridge to cool faster.
Prepare all your filling ingredients, chopping everything into thin slices. Mash the avocado with the lime juice into a paste.
Once the rice has cooled (it doesn't have to be freezing, just room temperature), mix the avocado paste together with the rice.
Lay out your sheet of seaweed on the glad wrap covered sushi mat and coat seaweed with the rice/avocado mixture leaving a fingers space uncovered at the top and bottom of the seaweed sheet. Now lay your sliced vegetables and some coriander on top, focusing the filling in the middle of the seaweed sheet (imagine like you are filling a burrito).
Now you are ready to roll it up. Push the bamboo mat forward and roll the ingredients inside the seaweed. Once you have done this you will have quite a long sushi roll, cut it in half, or in 4 if you want smaller rolls. Voilà! Ready to eat xx
Makes 6 big nori rolls, or 16 small nori rolls.
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