Sushi Salad
We don’t go out to eat that often. We cook a lot at home and now that we have a baby, it is just easier to dine in. We do miss going out for sushi. I can’t even remember the last time we went out for sushi…it was well before Caleb was born. To cure our sushi cravings, we have been making this Sushi Salad for dinner-sometimes twice a week. It is that good. The salad has all of the flavors of sushi, but in an easy rice bowl form.
We’ve made sushi at home before, but it is always an event. I love this salad because you don’t have to mess with rolling sushi, you throw everything in a bowl and you are good to go. The salad has rice, nori, cucumber, carrots, avocado, edamame, pickled ginger, and sesame seeds. The salad is finished off with a light dressing that is made of wasabi, ginger, and soy sauce. You get all of the sushi flavors, but in salad form.
This salad is a vegetarian sushi salad, but you could add some sashimi or any other of your favorite sushi roll ingredients. We buy all of the ingredients for this sushi salad at a local Asian market. Most larger grocery stores should have the ingredients, but if not, go to an Asian market, if you have one nearby.
If you are in the mood for sushi, but don’t want to go out or roll sushi, make this simple Sushi Salad at home. It’s a good one!
Sushi Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes
If you like sushi, you will love this sushi salad. All of the same great sushi flavors, but in an easy rice salad!
Ingredients:
1 cup short grain brown rice
2 1/4 cups water
1/4 cup, plus 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
3 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons finely chopped pickled ginger
3 green onions, chopped
2 medium carrots, chopped
1 large seedless cucumber, peeled and chopped
1 cup shelled edamame
2 sheets nori, cut into thin strips (sheets of dried seaweed)
1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and slicedFor the dressing:
2 teaspoons wasabi powder
1 tablespoon hot water
2 tablespoons cold water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons ginger juice (squeezed from freshly grated gingerroot)Directions:
1. In a large pot, combine rice and water. Bring to a simmer. Cover and cook on low for about 45 minutes. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, bring 1/4 cup vinegar to boil with sugar and salt, stirring until sugar is dissolved and remove from heat.
2. Transfer rice to a large bowl and stir in vinegar mixture. Cool rice and stir in sesame seeds, remaining 3 tablespoons vinegar, oil, ginger, green onions, carrot, cucumber, edamame, and nori strips. Top salad with avocado slices.
3. In a small bowl, stir wasabi powder into hot water and stir in cold water, soy sauce, and ginger juice. Drizzle dressing over salad and serve.
Note-look for the ingredients in the Asian section of the grocery store. If you can't find them at your regular store, try an Asian market.
Recipe adapted from Epicurious
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Most excellent! I don’t find that making sushi at home is particularly thrilling. I’d much rather cure my occasional craving with some dine-in or take-out. But this? THIS I can do regularly, thanks!
What a great idea! Love this!
I told you this on Twitter already, but this idea is BRILLIANT!
I would love this!
Love this idea so much! I’ve thought about making my own sushi at home, but this would be so much easier!
How awesome is this? Sushi in a bowl, it still has all the goodies in you don’t have to suffer the awkward stuffing the roll in your mouth deal to capture all the flavors together. Genius!
I crave sushi almost daily but it does get kind of expensive! This salad sounds like the perfect way to satisfy my cravings
Made this for supper tonight, we absolutely loved it, oh, feeds 2 not 4
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I love this idea!!
It looks simple to make and I like all the healthy ingredients. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
You’ll be about to go back out to eat when he is like 12!!! lol . I kid I kid! This salad sounds amazing!
what a great idea! And now, of course, I’m craving sushi. And I never once thought of turning it into a salad. Lovely!
This looks amazing!
Edamame right in the salad — brilliant! (we always order edamame as a starter when we go to sushi) I made sushi salads a couple of times but missed that hit of wasabi, so the last time I toook 1/4 c. rice and loaded it with wasabi paste, then pinched it off into the salad and mixed gently — wasabi hit! I like your combo of ingredients; thanks!
Mmm, what a great idea and easy way to satisfy a sushi craving at home!
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I so love this idea! What a perfect, totally do-able idea!
I love the idea of an easy at home take on sushi! Great way to incorporate all the ingredients of the favorite restaurant staple for any night of the week!
Sushi and avocado…. my fav’s!
Love this idea!
this is genius! i love everything about this salad. sushi is my absolute favorite Maria!
I finally got to make Sushi Salad today. WOW. I had to make myself stop “tasting” it to ensure that I would have some left for dinner. Tastes just like veggie sushi. Thanks for the wonderful recipe!
I was on a roll (no pun intended) and making something like this on a regular basis and then, for no reason, I stopped. Thanks for the reminder of what is SUCH a great dinner. We love veg sushi in our house and I’m excited to make this again. I love the edamame addition!
This is brilliant – I can’t wait to try this!
I could eat this several times a week – love sushi and this no-fuss way of enjoying it.
Looks refreshing!!
Oh Maria, I am so smitten with this sushi bowl concept. I’ve made sushi before, but it takes so much effort. I think I could throw this together on a weeknight. Thank you!
I made this tonight, swapping in fake crab for the edamames, and it tastes just like a California roll! I love it and will be making it again very soon.
I made this today, and it was AWESOME! I blogged about it and linked back to you. Thanks so much for the recipe. I’ll definitely be making it again!
Two Peas replied: — March 15th, 2012 @ 11:04 pm
Thanks for the shout out! So glad you liked the sushi salad!
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This is quite possibly the best recipe ever. It tastes like sushi, but its soo easy! Thanks!
This picture has been posted on a facebook page called Culinaria Fusion. They have posted many recipes from different websites claiming it to be their own and saying that they are preparing for releasing these in a cookbook soon.
THIS IS TO ALERT YOU TO A FACEBOOK PAGE Culinariafusion-Culinary Consciousness Cookbook, THEY HAVE POSTED THE ABOVE PICTURE ON THEIR PAGES. MOST PICTURES ON THIS PAGE ARE STOLEN FROM DIFFERENT WEBSITES. EVEN THE CAPTIONS AND COMMENTS HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM VARIOUS PLACES ON THE INTERNET. NO CREDIT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE REAL AUTHORS OF THESE RECIPES. AS MENTIONED IN THE POST BELOW, PEOPLE ARE BEING MISLED INTO THINKING THAT THESE PICTURES ARE OF DISHES MADE BY THE OWNER OF THIS WEBPAGE FOR THEIR UPCOMING COOKBOOK.
Two Peas replied: — August 12th, 2012 @ 11:06 pm
Thanks for letting us know!
Any idea on how well this keeps? Would love to make this for lunches.
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Oh my word I LOVE this!!! Genius!
This was awesome and very easy to make. I modified slightly by using the juice from the pickled ginger jar instead of fresh ginger. Will definitely make again though next time I will shred the carrot instead of chopping
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