Description
Everybody loves sushi. Now vegetarians can thoroughly enjoy it too!
American sushi expert Marisa Baggett has been working passionately for years to perfect sushi recipes that take full benefit of the hottest garden vegetables, herbs, tofu, mushrooms and spices to be had at your local farmer’s market or co-op. Her innovative use of sustainable ingredients like fresh asparagus, apple, daikon radish, basil, tomatoes, beets, corn, shiitake mushrooms and cucumbers set her sushi recipes aside from all others you might have seen.
This vegetarian cookbook offers entirely new ways for localvores to enjoy their community supported agriculture and market vegetables with sushi rice. This is the ultimate farm-to-table book with a creative Asian flair! Marisa not only shows you how to make the standard thick and thin rolls but other types of sushi that are just as delicious—and even easier to make!
These recipes are about combining delicious rice with tantalizing pairings you might not have tried or thought of before, such as:
- Apple & daikon radish
- Cucumber & peanut
- Spicy carrot & tomato
- Pomegranate & basil
- Ginger & beet
- Summer corn & pickled okra
- Sweet potato & shiitake mushrooms
- Strawberry & rhubarb
All of Marisa’s sushi recipes are extra simple to make. For example, her Tempura Avocado Hand Rolls are a snap to put together—despite the fact that you’ve never made sushi before!
Marisa starts by giving surefire recipes for making perfect sushi rice each time. She provides tips on which vegetables work best with sushi rice and how to create original combinations. Vegetarian Sushi Secrets is a gem of a Sushi cookbook that shows you how to make foolproof thin rolls, thick rolls, inside-out rolls, hand rolls, bowl rice sushi and a lot more very quickly at all!