Raw Vegan Sushi

I've always loved sushi... the little parcels of deliciousness, dipped in soy sauce and wasabi paste, little flakes of ginger... oooh! Yummy!

So naturally I wanted to make a raw version.

OK, so I had to make a couple of exceptions, owing to the paucity of availability of raw ingredients locally. The Nori sheets had been toasted. I couldn't find raw, but will continue to look. I used mustard powder because I couldn't find the wasabi powder (I know it's somewhere...) and I did use soy sauce, which I don't suppose is raw, but other than that... here's what I made:

Nori sheets cut lengthways into four. I used three sheets for two people.

Avocado paste:

I avocado, mashed

1 quarter of a small onion, finely chopped

1cm red chilli, finely chopped

1 handful mixed raw seeds

a pinch of lentil spreouts

Mix everything together and place a teaspoonful at one end of the nori strip.

Grate 1 carrot, 1 beetroot, 1 apple.

Place a pinch of each (or vary for each wrap) next to the avocado paste.

Chop the tip off asparagus ad add this to the nori strip.

Add a few pieces of a finely sliced chard leaf.

Slice some small pieces of red and green pepper and add a couple of these to the strip.

Roll us the whole strip, carefully keeping everything within and sticking the end with a drop of apple juice if necessary.

To accompany this, I mixed some mustard powder in a little avocado dip (see my recipe here)

I should, of course, have used wasabi powder and I will next time.

(Try to ignore the big crack in my old plate! I can't throw it out - it's too pretty!)

I also soaked some seaweed salad and a chopped sun-dried tomato with a little chopped fresh coriander in a drop of soy sauce and some hemp oil for a few minutes, before spooning it over the sushi and a few extra lentil sprouts.

Next time I make this, I would like to add some grated ginger and devise some alternative fillings, but this was a good first effort. 

Mr H, who had never seen sushi being made before, was particularly impressed, giving me quite a serotonin hit, which always boosts the flavour of anything! =)