Vegetarian Sushi Bowl With Teriyaki Dressing
on Feb 22, 2016, Updated Sep 04, 2023
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This Vegetarian Sushi Bowl With Teriyaki Dressing is perfect to gratify your sushi cravings at home! Featuring fresh ingredients that really fresh and bring about the umami in the bowl, this one’s the perfect answer to “why should non-vegetarians have all the fun”!
This vegetarian sushi bowl with teriyaki dressing is one of those dishes that sounds complicated, but is actually really simple. It’s a really simple way to recreate the delicious flavors of sushi at home using fresh ingredients. The result is a bowl of umami that’s every bit as refreshing and delicious as the Japanese sushi, but this time vegetarian!
Quick Walk Through: Vegetarian Sushi Bowl
Why I Love This Bowl
After finishing the workshop conducted by ITC, I promptly went and bought all the ingredients and a sushi mat. MAJOR FAIL. Rolling sushi require skill, patience and crafty hands. Something I don’t seem to have! But the craving for sushi didn’t go away which is why this gorgeous sushi bowl, which works perfectly fine!
In fact I loved scooping forkfuls of the sushi salad and shoving them in my mouth; something I do with sushi as well. It’s everything that good sushi is all about, but without the work. That’s me – always lazy!
Top Ten Tips To Make Sushi
- Japanese food is all about the ‘umami’ which isn’t just about taste, but also texture and experience. It’s important to be able to distinctly enjoy the taste of every ingredient, which is why you can taste every ingredient even in something as tightly rolled as sushi. When making Japanese food and/or sushi, focus on using the freshest ingredients and retaining their original flavour.
- Experiment with different cuts and textures when attempting sushi. Every action that goes into making sushi is deliberate. Something as simple as how you cut the meat can transform the taste.
- Using a sharp knife will ensure both safety and hygiene. Knife skills are extremely important because you will be handling a lot of raw meat and vegetables.
- Sushi rice should be highly polished, and handled the right way, which is to use a little water and rub the surface of the grain against each other.
- Sushi always uses short grained rice, which is boiled for a particular amount of time and treated with vinegar.
- Always use vinegar on your hands while shaping sushi, and work quickly so that the temperature of your hands doesn’t transfer to the fish. This helps maintain hygiene and kills bacteria.
- Tuna should ideally be stored at -60 degrees and sliced while it’s still frozen.
- Salmon should be rubbed with a lot of salt and left for an hour or so, after which it should be washed and treated with vinegar. This ensures salmon doesn’t release any water when you use it.
- When using cold water Mackerel, it’s important to salt it well, after which it should be marinated for at least an hour.
- Don’t attempt to use raw fish at home in sushi. Stick to vegetarian sushi as it’s difficult to control hygiene and bacteria at home.
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Vegetarian Sushi Bowl With Teriyaki Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Wild Rice, cooked Black Heirloom
- 1 Cucumber, sliced or julienned or spiralized
- 1 Carrot, sliced or julienned or spiralized
- handful Mushrooms, Enoki (Note 2)
- 1 strips Nori, or Seaweed sheets , cut into thin, refer to Note 3
- 1 Avocado, sliced
- Sesame Seeds, Black and White for topping
For the Dressing
- 1/8 cup Mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon Teriyaki Sauce
- 1/8 teaspoon Wasabi
Instructions
- Whisk together all the ingredients under dressing, till smooth. add a teaspoon or two of water to thin it out if you like.
- Toss the ingredients in the dressing and serve immediately topped with sesame seeds.
Notes
- Use the recipe as a guide and experiment with your own ingredients and flavors. You can add cooked shrimp or chicken for a non vegetarian option
- Enoki mushrooms can be eaten raw, but be sure to cut the stems off and clean them properly before use
- Nori sheets taste great if toasted as well
Sounds like such a fun experience!
Haha Meena he placed the cucumber on my arm and sliced it. It was scary but so much fun!
Now if u roll sushi or spread it either way I am ready to eat but tell me what happened to the cucumber and ur arm 😀