Have you ever eaten low carb sushi? So sushi rolls without rice? Tastes mega delicious! Today I tell you how to prepare the fish rolls without carbohydrates.
I love sushi. Every day I could eat the small bites and rolls with relish. But as we all know, white rice is not low in carbohydrates.
That's why I experimented a little and tried a delicious recipe for low carb sushi.
Admittedly: As a sushi lover, I was a little skeptical at first. But it really is delicious. At first glance, you can't even tell the difference.
Only when you eat it do you realize that the low carb sushi was prepared without rice. The secret ingredient is cauliflower. The vegetable ensures that far fewer carbs end up in the rolls and that the consistency is less sticky.
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And already I have revealed the first secret - instead of rice, we just take cauliflower. I'll tell you a few more delicious secrets now.
Table of contents
What are the benefits of low carb sushi?
The best low carb sushi recipe comes without rice. But you still don't have to give up anything in terms of taste.
If you replace the rice quite simply, you have the great advantage that you can save a lot of carbohydrates with cauliflower sushi. In the cabbage are also many vitamins, minerals and fiber, which are very healthy for digestion.
You can also save a lot of calories. 100 grams of sushi rice have 345 calories. Cauliflower just 22 calories. You can calculate for yourself how much low carb sushi you can eat to get the same amount of calories.
This recipe is
- Low carb and keto suitable
- gluten free
- Packed with healthy nutrients
- a great way to eat more vegetables
- practical to use cauliflower
What ingredients do I need for low carb sushi?
Let's take a quick look at the ingredients before we get right to the recipe. I'll tell you what ingredients you need, why they're so healthy, and what you can substitute them with if you don't have them on hand.
Cauliflower
Probably the most important ingredient for low carb sushi is cauliflower, known as cauliflower in Austria. The white florets of the cabbage form the basis for rice-free maki, sashimi and co.
Anyone who discovers low-carb has long since discovered cauliflower for themselves. And everyone else, should really give the cabbage a chance, because it is not only packed with vitamins and nutrients, but above all contains very few calories.
It is not for nothing that cauliflower is one of the most popular vegetables that the Low carb cuisine has to offer. By the way, not only the florets are suitable to be turned into "rice", you can also use the stems of cauliflower.
Try also delicious cauliflower pizza or who likes it sweet, should take a look at Cauliflower brownies throw
Soy sauce and rice vinegar
In a classic sushi, the rice is seasoned with a mix of salt, sugar and rice vinegar. Here it works a little differently, because sugar has lost nothing in the low carb kitchen.
The cauliflower is seasoned with a mix of soy sauce and rice vinegar. We let these two flavor carriers soak into the cabbage while it is still warm so that it absorbs the flavor particularly well.
However, since cabbage is always a bit drier than rice, many add a bit of cream cheese, which is either mixed into the cabbage or spread on the nori leaves.
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What other ingredients go into sushi without rice?
By the way, you can be mega creative with the ingredients. Go wild. In your low carb sushi fit
- Salmon - raw or smoked
- Tuna - raw or cooked
- Shrimp
- Bell pepper red or yellow
- Cucumber
- Radish
- Red cabbage in thin slices
- Carrot
- Celery stalk
- Avocado
- Fresh coriander or parsley
- boiled eggs
- Horseradish or horseradish spread
- Broccoli instead of cauliflower
- Wasabi paste
- Mayonnaise
- Creamy cream cheese
Recipe: Low carb sushi
Long story short - let's get started right away! I'll tell you here and now how you can make sushi without rice. For those who have never dared to do such a project, here is a very detailed tutorial with very precise step-by-step descriptions.
For those who have ventured into low carb sushi before or are interested in the nutritional values, you'll find an abridged version of the recipe at the end of the post.
This recipe makes enough for 4 filled nori sheets. From this you can get about 8 sushis per roll - but it depends a lot on how you fill them and how thick you cut them.
Ingredients
- 450 g cauliflower
- 5 cm ginger
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1-2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 4 Nori leaves
- 30 g cream cheese
- 5 g wasabi
- 150 g avocado
- 70 g paprika yellow
- 100 g smoked salmon
Also: knife and board, food processor, cooking pot, kitchen towel and sushi mat.
1. prepare cauliflower
Remove the green leaves of the cauliflower and wash it.
Cut off the florets of the cabbage and weigh them. Now off with it in a powerful food processor*. If you don't have a machine available, use a sharp knife and a board.
If you decide to chop the cabbage by hand, then you must be especially careful to cut small pieces. They must not be larger than grains of rice.
In the food processor, this process takes only a few seconds. However, you may need to brush the cabbage together again with a dough scraper after the first pass and then puree it one more time.
In the machine, make sure you don't get mush, but that there are still pieces to be seen!
2. cauliflower boil and season
Bring water to a boil in a pot. In the meantime, peel the ginger. This works best with a teaspoon. Simply scrape off the peel with the spoon.
Add the ginger bulb whole to the water, here it will release the flavor to the cauliflower. Stir in 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar to provide more flavor to the cauliflower.
Once the water is boiling, we get to work on the cauliflower.
But be careful: the cabbage is wrapped in a kitchen towel so that the granules do not disappear down the drain later when you drain it.
Wrap the cauliflower rice in the cloth. To do this, put it in the middle of the cloth and twist it tightly. Tie the cloth with a woolen thread.
Remove the pot from the heat and put the cabbage with the cloth into the water. Now leave the cabbage in the pot for 5 minutes.
Take the cloth out of the pot and rinse it with ice-cold water. Wring out the cloth - be careful, it may still be hot! Remove the thread and put the cabbage in a bowl.
Loosen the cabbage with a fork and make a taste. You may need to add a little rice vinegar. Then add soy sauce. Now we put the rice aside to rest.
3. prepare vegetables and salmon
We now chop the vegetables and prepare bite-sized pieces.
Cut the avocado in half lengthwise and remove the pit. Remove the avocado from the skin with a tablespoon so that you can cut it open.
Cut them into thin slices and place them on a plate.
Wash the bell bell pepper and the cucumber. Cut them into thin sticks. If you like, you can remove the slippery inside of the cucumber. If you like it very juicy, just leave it on. By the way, you should not peel the cucumber, because the peel looks very nice in the sushi.
Finally, cut the salmon into thin strips. The thinner you cut the salmon and vegetables, the easier it will be to cut the rolls later.
4. shape sushi
Spread a nori sheet on the sushi mat. Mix cream cheese and wasabi in a small bowl. Spread this mixture on the nori sheets with a butter knife. You can also use a spoon for this.
Using a tablespoon, place the cauliflower on the sheet. Spread the mixture on the sheet so that the maximum thickness is 0.5 cm, leaving about 0.5 cm of space on all sides.
Press the cauliflower firmly with your hands.
Place the salmon and vegetables on the bottom of the sushi as shown in the photo. For this you need to move about 5 cm inwards - do not put the ingredients all the way to the edge.
Grab the mat and roll up the rolls with lots of pressure.
Shape all 4 rolls and then slice them with a very sharp knife.
Serve the low carb sushi with soy sauce and lemon.
Sushi tips for beginners
Whether it's regular sushi or the version with less carbs, if you're rolling sushi for the first time, you'll be happy to know these tips. :)
- If you use horseradish, guacamole or any other ingredient with a creamy consistency, you must spread it directly on the nori sheet. This will make it moist and stick together better.
- Attention typical beginner's mistake: Do not put too much on the algae sheet. Otherwise it will be very complicated when rolling.
- Do not cook the cauliflower to death. Just scald it for a very short time. Otherwise, you'll have sushi mush and absolutely no bite.
- It is easier to cut the rolls if you put them in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Always use a very sharp knife for cutting.
- If you take fresh fish or shrimp, eat your low carb sushi within half a day.
And here, as promised, the short version of the recipe, for those who regularly prepare sushi.
Low carb sushi
Ingredients
- 450 g Cauliflower
- 5 cm peeled ginger
- 2 EL Rice vinegar
- 1-2 EL Soy sauce
- 4 Nori leaves
- 30 g Cream cheese
- 5 g Wasabi paste
- 150 g Avocado
- 70 g Bell bell pepper yellow
- 100 g Smoked salmon
Equipment
- Food processor
- Knife and board
- 1 Sushi mat
- 1 saucepan
- 1 kitchen towel
Anleitung
For the low carb rice
- Wash the cauliflower and cut it into small florets. Chop the cabbage with a food processor or knife.450 g cauliflower
- Bring a pot of water to a boil. In the pot put a 5 cm long and peeled ginger bulb and 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar.5 cm peeled ginger, 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- Put the cauliflower in a clean cloth. Twist the cloth together at the ends so that the cabbage cannot fall out. When the water boils, take it off the stove and carefully put the two kitchen towels in. Leave the cabbage in the hot water for about 5 minutes.
- Wring out the cabbage and the kitchen towel until all the liquid is out. Attention: hot! Then put the cauliflower in a bowl and loosen it up with a fork. Make a taste and then decide if you want to add more rice vinegar or not.
- Finally, add the soy sauce. Stir well and put aside for the time being.1-2 tablespoons soy sauce
Shape the sushi rolls
- Spread the nori sheets on a sushi mat. Mix cream cheese and wasabi in a small bowl, then spread the mix on the seaweed leaves.4 nori leaves, 30 g cream cheese, 5 g wasabi paste
- Cut the vegetables into thin slices.150 g avocado, 70 g paprika yellow
- Now place the cauliflower on the nori leaves. Press it flat with your fingers.
- Place the vegetables and the salmon on top. However, not completely on the edge, but about 5 cm inward.100 g smoked salmon
- Now you bring your low carb sushi into rolls. Roll tightly and with pressure so that they do not fall apart.
- Cut the rolls into small pieces with a very sharp knife.
- It goes well with soy sauce and lemon. Yummy! 😋
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Our conclusion
Visually, you can tell the difference at first glance if you make sure that the cauliflower is not too fine. You can let off steam with the ingredients. You can combine them as you like and create new low carb sushi creations again and again.
Enjoy it!
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