Vegetarian Sushi

Is it me, or did we skip Spring and go straight into Summer?

It's been so hot lately that I don't seem to have much time or appetite to prepare a proper meal. I wanted something light, quick and cheap. So after looking through the TM forum, I found some inspiration for Sushi :). This can easily be made without a Thermomix and the ingredients can easily be substituted to your own desire.

Vegetarian Sushi

Ingredients

• Nori Seaweed Sheets
• 300g sushi rice (2 rice cups)
• Desired fillings (eg: avocado, cucumber, carrot and fried eggs)
• Kewpie or homemade mayonnaise
• Soysauce and wasabi to serve
• Mix: 1/4 rice vinegar, 4 tbsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt

Method

1. Weigh the rice in the TM rice basket and rinse
2. Add 900g water in the TM bowl - Cook for 17min/Varoma/3.5speed
3. While the rice is cooking, prepare your desired veggies 
4. The vinegar mix is to add to the cooked rice 
5. You're now ready to roll! Lay out seaweed with rice, desired fillings  and mayo on top and roll tightly. I roll the sushi by hand as I don't have those bamboo sushi rollers. 
6. Cut them into desired shapes (or not) and serve with soysauce and wasabi - or eat as is (I do)!

 

I add this in sometimes :)...

The tastiest vegetarian sausage rolls ever

These sausage rolls have always been a big hit. Everyone always asks for the recipe and no one even notices that they're vegetarian. My hubby even prefers them over meat ones :)

Recipe is so simple and versatile. It can easily be doubled/tripled and freezes well.

Vegetarian Sausage Rolls

Ingredients

• 3 puff pastry sheets (more/less depending on how generous you are with the filling)
• 3 eggs (plus 1 extra if you want to brush egg wash before popping it in the oven)
• 1 generous heaped *spoon of BBQ sauce (see a pic of the type I use below)
• 1 *spoon soy sauce
• 1 *spoon milk
• 1 shredded zucchini
• 1 cup shredded cheese
• 1/2 *cup breadcrumbs
• 1/2 *cup rolled oats (or quinoa flakes)

*Note: I don't use proper measuring cups and tablespoons for this recipe. Where I say cup, I was actually using a coffee mug. Where I say spoon, I used the soup spoons that you would use in a Chinese restaurant

You can buy this from Asian/vego grocery stores. Also great for sauces, stir fries and soups ;)

Method

• Mix all the wet ingredients in a bowl and then add the dry ingredients
• Cut the thawed square pastry sheets into 8s. I normally just use a knife to cut 4 strips equally from top to bottom (vertically), then the whole sheet in half (horizontally) so there are 8 small strips
• Spoon the mixture onto the bottom part of a strip and then roll them until form a sausage roll
• Optional: brush egg wash on top of the rolls and you can even sprinkle with sesame seeds
• Pop into preheated oven and bake until golden brown. Just you wait until you smell the aroma!!

I hope you enjoy them as much as we do :)!