Rice-less Vegan Sushi

I decided to challenge myself again after yesterday's pizza: this time we made vegan sushi, and without rice!

All ingredients, even the rolling mat, were bought from Gourmet, but you can get them from anywhere else.

Here's what you need:

Maki rolls:
Nori sheets
Sweet potato (this is the rice substitute, you can just make sushi rice instead)
Carrots
Cucumber
Bell Peppers (all 3 colors were used here)
Leaves of your choice (we used lettuce, mint, basil)
Spring Onion - optional
Radish -optional

Sesame Oil

Sauce:
Soy Sauce
Wasabi

You can also add garlic or ginger, or both, to your sauce :)

  

First of all, boil or steam the sweet potatoes to save time. Then slice up all the veggies.

Once the potatoes are ready, peel and mash them.

Place your nori sheet shiny side down, and start applying a thin layer of sweet potato. You can cover the whole sheet or just one part, depends on how much you made. Then add the veggies in a nice order, try to make them fill as much space as possible while keeping them as flat as possible...

Roll roll roll...then slice it up and you get sushi! :D

We also tried making raw spring rolls with rice paper, and decided to cut it up like maki :)

Voilà! Bon appétit :)