Nori Rolls

Name: Nori Rolls
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: soy sauce; ¼ cucumber, halved lengthwise, seeded and in julienne strips; 1 red pepper, halved, seeded and in julienne strips; wasabi; pickled pink ginger; 4 tbsp toasted sesame seeds; more carrot strips and crescents of mooli, plus some wakame seaweed (optional) dressed in rice vinegar; 5 tbsp rice vinegar; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp sesame oil; about 6 shiitake mushrooms, sliced; 8 sheets ready-toasted nori seaweed wasabi (optional); 1 tbsp sugar; 2½ tbsp mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine); 2½ cups Japanese fancy rice or other short-grained rice; 1 tbsp wasabi, loosened with a little water; 1 small avocado, halved, stoned, peeled and in julienne strips; ½ mooli radish, in julienne strips; 1 small carrot, in julienne strips; 1 tbsp mirin; 2 tbsp mirin; 4 tbsp soy sauce

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook

By Adrian Daniel and Michael Daniel

Published 2004

About

This is Adrian’s version of a varied vegetarian sushi.

Ingredients

2½ cups Japanese fancy rice or other short-grained rice
5 tbsp rice vinegar
2½

Asia
Japan
Starter
Snack
Vegan
Mediterranean

Method

Rinse the rice in a sieve under cold running water for about 30 minutes, occasionally rubbing the grains between the fingers.
Bring 600 ml (