Baby bok choy nigiri with black bean sauce is the two-bite wonder my sushi nights were missing. Blanched baby bok choy, glossy with savory black bean sauce and brightened with orange zest, sits on pressed rice with a nori belt. Twenty minutes, and it tastes like...
Cucumber Peanut Sushi Boats (Vegan)
Cucumber peanut sushi boats are no-roll sushi at its friendliest. Thin English cucumber slices cup pressed sushi rice, topped with roasted peanuts, grated daikon and ginger, and scallions, with a shake of chili seasoning and sweet chili sauce for dipping. No rolling...
Vegan Faux Roe Gunkanmaki (Amaranth Sushi)
Vegan gunkanmaki — battleship sushi with amaranth roe — is the conversation piece of a plant-based sushi night. A wide nori band circles the rice, cradling spoonfuls of faux roe made from amaranth. Fifteen minutes once the rice is done, and everyone gets the pop of...
Simple & Elegant Spinach Nigiri (Vegetarian Sushi)
Vibrant spinach nigiri proves a sushi topping doesn't need fish to be beautiful. Blanched spinach, seasoned with dark sesame oil and salt, drapes over pressed rice and gets a belt of nori with black sesame seeds. Forty-five minutes, most of it rice time, and the...
Easy Japanese Omelette Sushi (Vegetarian Tamago Nigiri)
This genius shortcut to delicious homemade sushi swaps store-bought Japanese omelette sheets for a stovetop tamago you'd normally babysit. Strips of sweet egg go onto pressed rice, a nori band holds everything in place, and a dusting of furikake adds crunch....
Spicy Carrot Inari Sushi Recipe
Spicy carrot and tomato inari sushi brings genuine heat to a usually sweet hand-held. Finely diced carrot gets tossed with sriracha and garlic chili paste, shichimi togarashi, and dark sesame oil, then folds into sushi rice with halved cherry tomatoes. Fifteen minutes...
Shiitake Mushroom Nigiri: Easy Vegan Sushi Recipe
Easy shiitake mushroom nigiri is the vegetarian sushi piece that wins over fish loyalists. Pan-cooked shiitake caps, briefly marinated for extra flavor, sit on hand-pressed rice with ginger and scallion, a strip of nori holding it all together. Tomato furikake...
Anko Inari Sushi: A Sweet & Savory Vegan Treat
Red bean inari sushi is dessert disguised as lunch, in the best possible way. Sweet red bean paste (anko) and fresh herbs — shiso or basil, mint, and scallion — fold into sushi rice inside sweet inari pouches. Twenty minutes with prepared rice, no rolling mat, and...
Miso Eggplant Inari Sushi: A Quick & Savory Vegan Bite
Miso eggplant inari sushi is what happens when two good ideas meet in one pouch. Diced miso-pickled eggplant and wakame fold into seasoned sushi rice with miso dressing, then everything tucks into soft inari pockets. The rice filling can be made two days ahead — meal...
Easy Vegan Inari Sushi (Tofu Pockets)
Meal-prep inari sushi with black bean rice is lunch, solved. Sushi rice stirred through with savory black bean sauce, green onions, snow peas, and shredded carrot gets tucked into sweet inari pouches. Make eight on Sunday and grab-and-go all week. Craving sushi that...
Easy Vegetarian Seaweed Salad (Fish-Free!)
Vegetarian seaweed salad — restaurant style — is that glossy, sweet-tangy side you thought required a sushi chef. Dried mixed seaweed rehydrates into slippery ribbons, then takes on amazu, soy sauce, ginger, and toasted sesame oil. Fifteen minutes and a fraction of...
Crunchy Mango & Wasabi Ramen Salad
Ramen noodle salad with mango & wasabi peas is the vibrant potluck dish everyone photographs before eating. Crunchy ramen noodles and almonds, tender spinach and broccoli slaw, juicy mango, and candied ginger, all slicked with sesame dressing. Twenty minutes,...
