How to make sushi without fish or seaweed

Question

so i live i a small town and there are no restaurants that have sushi. i want to try to make it myself but I'm vegetarian so that means no fish. and there are no grocery stores that have seaweed or that paper stuff. so how do i make sushi without any of that?

Answer 1

Rice wrapped in a omelet!  You could aslo use Cream Cheese, Avacado, Yams and Cucumbers!

Answer 2

You don't.

Answer 3

Instead of fish, use avocados, cucumbers, mushrooms, asparagus or carrots. Use this website:

http://www.mediterrasian.com/delicious_r...

Answer 4

Sushi needs a lot of special ingredients.  Aside from the nori paper (seaweed), you need a special type of short grained, glutinous sushi rice and Japanese rice vinegar.  If you can't get these ingredients in your small town, your dish will really be nothing like sushi.  

Maybe you can look for a sushi kit to buy online.

Answer 5

You can make vegetarian Sushi. I just entered the words "sushi recipes" in Google and found a recipe for you.l

http://www.sushirecipes.org/vegetarian

-sushi.html

Good luck, sounds delicious!

Answer 6

I am a chef and work at a large hotel and in the past we have used edible rice paper to make sushi wraps.  It works well just wet the rice wrapper and stuff it with whatever you want and roll it up. Then cut in into sushi shaped peices and serve.  Kevin

Answer 7

Since you probably won't be able to get most of the ingredients in your town, I suggest getting a sushi starter kit on-line:  http://www.sushifoods.com/Merchant2/merc...  It comes with everything but the veggies.:)  Once you have that, here is an easy recipe:

Sushi:

1/3 cup seasoned rice vinegar

2 teaspoons sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups short-grained sushi rice

1 1/2 cups water

4 sheets toasted nori

Fillings (pick 3 to 4):

1 kirby cucumber or 1/2 regular cucumber, seeded and cut into matchsticks

1 carrot, cut into matchsticks

1 small yellow bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut into matchsticks

4 scallions, trimmed and cut into matchsticks

1(4-inch) piece daikon, peeled, and cut into matchsticks (or pickled daikon or 6 red radishes)

1/2 firm-ripe Hass avocado, peeled, thinly sliced lengthwise, sprinkled with lemon juice

Soy sauce

Special equipment: Bamboo sushi mat

For the rice:

Mix together vinegar, sugar, and salt.

Rinse the rice in colander and drain. Put the rice and water in medium saucepan with a tight fitting lid. Bring to a boil over high heat, reduce heat to very low and simmer, tightly covered. (For a good seal wrap the pan's lid tightly with a small kitchen towel and cover the saucepan. Make sure the towel's edges are folded up well away from the heat.) Cook until all the water is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Remove the rice from the heat (don't uncover) and set aside for 10 minutes.

Fluff the rice with a fork and transfer it to a large bowl. Add the vinegar mixture and toss with the rice, using a wooden spoon. Spread it out on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Fan the rice continuously with a fan or magazine until cooled. Cover the rice with a damp towel.

To assemble rolls:

Place the sushi mat with the slats running crosswise directly in front of you on a clean work space. Lay a sheet of nori shiny-side down and lined up with the closest edge of the mat. Lightly moisten fingers with water, and evenly press about 1/4 of the rice onto the nori, with 1 1/2-inches uncovered at the far edge. Line up the fillings about 1-inch from the closest near edge, evenly across the rice. Leave 1-inch of rice uncovered at the far edge.

Beginning with the near edge of the mat, tightly roll up the nori, rice, and fillings into a cylinder. Firmly tug on the rounded mat over the roll as you pull on the far edge of the mat to tighten the roll. Open the mat, dab unsealed edge of nori with a bit of water and roll the sushi forward to seal. Transfer the sushi to a plate and cover with damp paper towels. Repeat with remaining rice and fillings.

Cut each sushi roll, crosswise, into 8 pieces with a sharp wet knife.

Serve with bowl of soy sauce for dipping.  

Answer 8

the seed weed is called Nori. You can get it in the ethnic food isle you can order it online too if this prove fruitless. You can make Kappa Maki, which is cucumber sushi. Also you can make it with other veggies like avacado, carrots, apple or whatever. You also need a bamboo rolling matt and a rice mixing bowl. Make sure you get the right rice, the wrong grain can lead to a bad outcome. Try buying a sushi kit, they are about $25 but the hardware is forever, nori is like $2 for 10 sheets which is a LOT of sushi . about 50 peices

happy sushi making

Answer 9

You don't have to have fish to make sushi, you can substitute veggies instead.  You DO have to have the right kind of rice though.  It's a different consistency, a lot more sticky.  I don't think you have to have the seaweed papers, but again, that means you have to have the right kind of rice.

Answer 10

I'm vegetarian too.  =]  go us!