Simple & Healthy Vegan Sushi by the Blueprint

If you love sushi or are just looking for a simple healthy way to eat raw fresh vegetables, you will love this easy vegan sushi recipe. Simple & Healthy vegan sushi by the Blueprint can be so easy.

Simple & Healthy Sushi – What You Need

You can make your vegan sushi with almost whatever you want. You don’t need many ingredients for this sushi recipe. It’s all very basic. Just try and follow the health message blueprint from the Bible and Ellen White and don’t use too many ingredients, don’t mix fruits and vegetables, and if you use coarse vegetables, cut them thinly with a peeler or grater. Instead of cutting them thinly, you can drop the coarse vegetables into boiling water until tender. You should be able to find all of the ingredients in any regular grocery store.

It is also best if you have a bamboo rolling mat, which you can either buy at the grocery store, in an Asian market, or online. We have rolled the sushi with a clean towel and by hand without any rolling aid. All methods work with some difficulty, but the rolling mat makes everything simple.

Sample Ingredients for the Simple & Healthy Vegan Sushi

• Celery
• Sweet potato
• Carrot
• Long grain Brown rice
• Nori wraps
• Sesame seeds
• Striplets optional

Ingredients for the Simple & Healthy Almond butter dipping sauce

• Almond butter
• Hot water
• Honey

How to Make the Sushi Rice

STEP 1: Rinse the rice in a colander or strainer under cold water. We prefer to use whole grain brown rice, but you can use any rice or even Quinoa.

STEP 2: Either cook the brown rice in your Instant Pot or cook it on the stove top. If you are using an Instant Pot, use the directions for rice that came with it or use the manual button for 21 minutes as we do. We use equal parts water and rice. Allow the pressure to release naturally. The rice should be tender and the rice should completely absorb the water.

If you are cooking the brown rice on the stove top, use the directions on the rice package or bring the rice together with the water to a boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover, and cook for 25 minutes. Use two times the water to rice. We usually make sushi rice in the Instant Pot.

Cut the Ingredients and Fill the Rolls

STEP 3: In the meanwhile, cut the ingredients. Cut everything into thin strips so that you can lay them across the nori wrap when making the sushi wraps.

Roll the Sushi Wraps

STEP 4: Place a nori sheet lengthwise on a bamboo rolling mat with the shiny side down. If you have to, you can place it on a towel or straight on the counter, but it will be harder to roll. Fill a shallow bowl or cup with cold water and wet your fingers or use a large spoon or sushi paddle to spread the rice on the nori sheet. Take a handful or spoonful of rice and place it in the center of the nori sheet. Spread evenly, leaving a 3/4 to 1 inch strip of the nori sheet uncovered on the edge farthest from you, so you can seal the nori to itself after rolling.

STEP 5: Place some thin strips of your ingredients in a line on the edge of the nori sheet nearest you. Make sure not to overfill the nori sheet, or it will be hard to roll.

STEP 6:  Tuck your thumbs underneath the bamboo mat and hold the ingredients with your fingers. Then roll the bamboo mat and the nori sheet towards your fingers with slight pressure. Make sure that the ingredients are fully covered with the rice and the nori sheet. Roll slowly, tucking and keeping pressure as you go to ensure that the sushi is rolled evenly.

STEP 7: Wet your fingers again in the shallow bowl of cool water and wet the uncovered strip of the nori sheet, making sure it is fairly damp. Completely roll up the nori sheet with the bamboo mat, ensuring that the strip sticks to the rest or the rolled up wrap.

Cut the Rolls

STEP 8: Place the sushi roll on a cutting board and carefully cut it in half with a sharp knife. Rinse the knife under cold water before and after cutting to help it to cut smoother, without sticking. Put the sushi halves beside each other and carefully cut them into small slices. The nori wraps we usually buy have convenient perforations that you can use as a guide to cut the sushi evenly.

How to Make the Simple & Healthy  Almond Butter Dipping Sauce

1/2 cup of almond butter

1/3 cup of hot water

2 tbsp of honey

1 tsp of lemon or lime juice

Mix the Almond butter, honey, lemon juice, and hot water together, stirring until the ingredients are completely combined. If too runny add more almond butter.

Enjoy the Simple & Healthy Vegan Sushi by the Blueprint

Sprinkle the vegan sushi rolls with sesame seeds and serve with the peanut butter dipping sauce.

Vegan Sushi Ingredient choices

Vegetables

• cucumber
• carrot
• sweet potato
• cooked asparagus
• caramelized onion
• baby spinach
• beets

Meat Substitutes

• tofu
• wheat gluten

Recipe Notes

• It’s nice to have a bamboo rolling mat, also called masiku, for rolling the sushi. You can buy it at an Asian market or order it online. Sometimes you can even find it in the supermarket. In a pinch we have used a hand towel or just used our hands.
• Roll the sushi rolls slowly to ensure an evenly shaped sushi wrap. The first few will seem difficult, but you will get better with practice.
• Rinse the knife with cold water before and after cutting the sushi rolls to help with the cutting. Make sure to use a very sharp knife, this makes cutting easier.
• Make sure not to overfill the sushi rolls or press too hard or you will have a mess that is almost impossible to roll.

Quotes from the Spirit of Prophecy (Ellen White)

In the study of hygiene, students should be taught the nutrient value of different foods. The effect of a concentrated and stimulating diet, also of foods deficient in the elements of nutrition, should be made plain. Tea and coffee, fine-flour bread, pickles, coarse vegetables, candies, condiments, and pastries fail of supplying proper nutriment. Many a student has broken down as the result of using such foods. Many a puny child, incapable of vigorous effort of mind or body, is the victim of an impoverished diet. Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables, in proper combination, contain all the elements of nutrition; and when properly prepared, they constitute the diet that best promotes both physical and mental strength. {Ed 204.3} (Ellen White, Education, page 204, paragraph 3)

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Deuteronomy 11:10-11

For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs

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