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If you like sushi, this video and recipe is for you. I reveal some very important sushi secrets on this live cooking segment on Charlotte Today…Did you know that most California rolls are made with imitation crab meat (i.e. minced fish protein by-product, egg whites, MSG, artificial food coloring and other chemical additives and preservatives)?
Watch here…
- 1 cup quinoa cooked in water to package instructions
- 2 tsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp coconut palm sugar
- 2 tbsp toasted black sesame seeds
- 6 nori sheets
- 1 avocado
- 1 red pepper
- 1 carrot
- ½ small cucumber
- 6 spears asparagus
- 4 tbsp namu shoyu sauce
- pickled ginger
- sriacha sauce to taste
- wasabi powder
- In a bowl, stir together quinoa, vinegar and sugar
- On a cutting board, slice avocado, red pepper, carrot and cucumber into small thin strips.
- Trim hard ends of asparagus
- Spread a thin layer of quinoa on one nori sheet, covering the whole sheet, except 1 inch space along far edge
- Place strips of avocado, red pepper, carrot, cucumer and asparagus on nori sheets on the near end on top of quinoa
- Moisten the clean edge of nori with a bit of water
- Beginning at the filling end, roll up the nori very tightly with a bamboo sushi mat and press firmly when you get to the moistened side to seal.
- Repeat these steps for the remaining nori sheets
- Cut each roll into 6 pieces
- Serve with namu shoyu sauce for dipping, sriracha, wasabi, and/or pickled ginger
Here are some of the special organic ingredients I used, along with an affiliate link to get them online if you can’t find them in your local grocery store:
- Bamboo sushi mat (This mat is crucial in making sushi that won’t fall apart and is tightly rolled)
- Organic quinoa
- Organic rice wine vinegar
- Organic coconut palm sugar (The best and most clean sugar on the market)
- Organic black sesame seeds (In Chinese medicine, black sesame seeds are used to promote a healthy kidney and liver, and they are also high in several vitamins and minerals)
- Organic nori sheets (A must to avoid pollutants and toxins often in water where seaweed is grown)
- Organic namu shoyu sauce (Raw, non-GMO, unadulterated, fermented and teeming with live enzymes – a step above the regular organic tamari)
- Organic pickled ginger (I love having a jar of this around when I make sushi. Without it – sushi is just not the same)
- Organic sriracha sauce (This sauce is the bomb – it’s sooooo spicy! A tad goes a long way and there’s no nasty preservatives)
- Organic wasabi powder (It’s so easy to make – just mix with water)
A very big thank you goes to Healthy Home Market for providing the ingredients for today’s cooking segment and to the hosts Colleen Odegaard and Ramona Holloway, Associate Producer Bob Carroll, Production Assistant Kellie Brown and of course Yasu, my dear sushi chef extraordinaire and friend.
Sayonara!
Food Babe
P.S. Want more secrets? Check out these two posts that go into detail about how to order sushi and which ingredients to avoid.
And if you like posts like this – share them with your friends – I bet they didn’t know most wasabi in the U.S. was full of food coloring. Please spread the word – we don’t want our loved ones eating petro-chemicals!
You look so beautiful! Thanks for the great post!
Awe… I’m blushing. Thank you Dani.
Hi.became fun of you;) And I just recently was reading your post about yeast. I’m confused cause in your post you says that yeast is bad for us, but also u recomened Ezequiel brand which in one of their bred contains organic yeast. So is good or bad? hoped you can respond as soon as posible. Thanks!:)
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Awesome segment! I am going to make this recipe this week!!
Question – me and my kids eat several bags of edamame from Trader Joe’s a week. It is not Organic, but Trader Joes makes a statement that they do not use products with GMO’s. Do you think I am safe buying that brand of edamame?
That’s definitely a gamble in my opinion. If it where me – I’d only buy certified organic soy products.
Actually they say that the Trader Joe’s labeled products are GMO free, which I also don’t believe.
Not sure how Food Babe feels about soy, but I read often that only fermented soy products are healthy to consume. Unfermented soy may lead to hormone imbalances and other issues. Try googling fermented soy for more info. I found this link that provides a good summary: http://www.naturalnews.com/025513_soy_food_soybeans.html
I hope this is helpful and wish you & your family all the best! Oh, & miso & tempeh are fermented soy products you can find in healthy food stores. Miso paste in soup is quite tasty.
Vani, this is great! I can’t wait to make this. I love the quinoa substitute for rice! I made your biscotti last week and they were DELICIOUS! I used almond pulp instead of pistachio bc I make my own almond milk and you’re right, they do not last long. lol
Mmmmm… I want to make some now too!
Seriously, Quinoa for a rice substitute in sushi is genius! I have tried making it with brown rice but I just can’t ever get it sticky enough! Thank you so much for this idea- I cannot wait to try it! Keep doing what you do- you rock!
And just to give you a little more hope- you have turned my household into a GMO free haven, which I thought was impossible! My husband got his degree in plant science and spent his whole graduate career genetically modifying crops from India (pigeon peas) so they could be grown in the U.S. ( I hate to say it, but I think his dream job was to work for Monsanto! UGH~) But thanks to you and all of your foodbabe knowledge and amazing recipes… he is finally on board and is always seeking out organic ingredients! (and instead wants to work for the USDA promoting the farm to table movement) So thank you, thank you! Never get discouraged because you ARE making a HUGE difference! Love Love love!
WOW – this is an incredible transformation. I’m so impressed! Keep up the good work Brittney.
Thank you so much! Can’t wait to try this!! I live in central Texas and it’s hard to come across sushi grade fish (that I trust) so this will be a great substitute!! Thanks for always keeping us informed!!
You are welcome Kamille!
You never cease to amaze me – I want this sushi roll now!!
I find coconut palm sugar really unpleasant – unless I just got a bad brand?? The taste is so bad to me. Do you have any other replacement suggestions? Like organic cane sugar or something else?
This is interesting – I think you may have gotten a bad bag or something – because it should taste like brown sugar and quite AMAZING. I’d definitely try again! Good Luck.
your ideas are welcome in my house
Love ordering sushi out but now I know what to consider.
I learn something new with each of your posts and I thought I was equipped to make my own at home one day. Will have to add your suggestions.
Thank you, so much!
The subtitles on the video were hilarious as they tried to phonetically relay words spoken. (GMO, Sriracha, etc didn’t come out so well : )
Sabrina
I tried to get those captions off – so annoying!
** Closed Captions….right : )
Amazing! Looks soo good and easy to make. Cant wait to make it this weekend. Thanks for everything!
I think I will take the plate of veggies, some rice and the avocado separately please! haha. I’ve never been a fan of sushi.. even the veggie versions. I think it must be the seaweed? I’m not sure, but it doesn’t do anything for me taste-wise. It sure looks pretty though!
I am excited to try making sushi with quinoa! There is no way I can ask my husband to eat sushi without soy sauce though and I love it too. Is organic soy sauce safe and non-gmo? Is there a reason to avoid organic soy sauce? Also, I had trouble finding an organic Sriracha
That sushi looks amazing! Also teh sriracha sauce you mentioned isn’t organic. I buy it and although it is called sky valley by organicville the first ingredient is conventional (cayenne peppers). I use it so not saying its terrible but it is not an organic product only some of the secondary ingredients are organic. Wish they would put out an organic sriracha sauce.
I’ve given up my vegetarian sushi since the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor meltdown. All Asian nori must be laden with radioactivity now. I haven’t found a western hemisphere source of Nori, have you?