Oh Sushi! How I Miss Thee!!!

[tangerine]

OK, so how does a low-carber handle the whole sushi thing? I am a sushi-addict. I used to do brown rice rolls, but I can't anymore b/c I need to lose weight. Anyone have a recipe for sushi rolls? Is it possible? PLEASE HELP!

[Abby135]

Not very promising :)

Korean Sushi
2 cups uncooked short-grain white rice :q:
2 cups water
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 leaves chard
2 eggs, well beaten
2 tablespoons soy sauce, divided
3 tablespoons water
1 onion, diced
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
3/4 pound beef tenderloin, minced
1 (6 ounce) can chunk light tuna in water, drained
1 carrot, julienned
1 cucumber, julienned
6 sheets nori (dry seaweed)

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DIRECTIONS:
In a medium saucepan bring 2 cups water and cider vinegar to a boil. Add rice and stir. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, until rice grains are sticky and soft.
In a medium saucepan, place chard in enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and cook until tender. Cut into thin strips.
Whisk the eggs with soy sauce and 3 tablespoons water. Pour into a medium skillet over medium heat. Cook until thickened. Remove from heat and cut into strips.
Heat the vegetable oil in a medium saucepan over medium high heat. Slowly cook and stir the onion until tender. Mix in the beef and 1 tablespoon soy sauce, and cook until evenly brown. Drain and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place the nori sheets on a medium baking sheet, and heat in the preheated oven 1 to 2 minutes, until slightly crisp.
Place the nori sheets, one at a time , on a bamboo rolling mat. Line the nori sheets evenly with approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm) depth of rice, taking care not to let the rice cover the edges of the nori. Beginning at one end of the nori sheet, top the rice with a stick of carrot, a line of tuna, a cucumber slice and a line of beef. Repeat until the food reaches approximately the middle of the nori sheet. Roll the sheets carefully and tightly. Seal with a grain or two of the sticky rice. Slice each roll into approximately 4 pieces and serve.

Nutrition Info
Servings Per Recipe: 6

Amount Per Serving
Calories: 502
Total Fat: 17.5g
Cholesterol: 128mg
Sodium: 510mg
Total Carbs: 58g
Dietary Fiber: 3.1g
Protein: 25.2g

[nepeta]

i love sushi too. you can still have sashimi, it usually comes without rice.
eventually when you are at the maintenance phase you should be able to eat sushi with rice once in awhile, so it isn't forever.

guess what i'm eating as i'm typing this? :lol:

[Beebuzz]

guess what i'm eating as i'm typing this?
Nepeta, I hope you're on the UP of the carb cycle :lol:!!
Im going to a sushi bar next week carb cycling or not!
Ill definetely order sashami but surely i'll select a roll or two (I've been 6 months sushiless!)

Beebuzz

[Beebuzz]

Shrimp and Nori Rolls

· 1 cup shrimp

· 1 Tbsp. mayonnaise

· 1 green onion, thinly sliced

· 2 sheets nori

· 1/4 English cucumber, seeded and julienned

· 1 Tbsp. toasted sesame seeds


Make sure that the shrimp are well drained. Combine with the mayonnaise and green onion. Lay out one sheet of nori lengthwise on a flat surface. Place 1/2 of the shrimp mixture 1-inch from the edge. Lay half the cucumber evenly beside the shrimp. Sprinkle with half the sesame seeds. Roll up tightly. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Cut each roll into 6 pieces.

Total Carbohydrates: 5.1
Total Carbohydrates Minus Fiber: 3.79

I've read that some use the cauliflied rice recipe and season it with splenda, soy sauce and rice vinegar. Never tried it myself.

Beebuzz

[LadyBelle]

What else you can do is make mock rice with cauliflower. Then sweeten it with splenda and rice vinigar. You can't really make rolls out of it, but you put the shashimi or other toppings you want and eat kind of like a stir fry.

[nepeta]

Nepeta, I hope you're on the UP of the carb cycle :lol:!!
Im going to a sushi bar next week carb cycling or not!
Ill definetely order sashami but surely i'll select a roll or two (I've been 6 months sushiless!)

Beebuzz



:lol: yeah beebuzz i'm on carb up now

[solamander]

sliced salmon or tuna atop a glob of cream cheese with a little wasabi, dipped in soy sauce is excellent

[Grimalkin]

I made some great California rolls tonight for dinner. I spread an ounce of softened cream cheese on my nori, then sprinkled that with seasoned rice vinegar, then added my crab, avocado and cucumber slices, then OH YES my raw ahi tuna! Soy and wasabe and a little pickled ginger on the side. Worked perfectly - the hardest part was finding a place that sells really fresh fish!

[Milhafre]

I eat tons of sushi - but hardly any of the rice. In restaurants, I usually order either assorted sashimi, or naruto rolls, which are rolls of whatever fish and additions like tobiko or avocado, wrapped in long thin slices of cucumber on the outside.

For do-it-yourself, Karen's recipe for shrimp and nori rolls posted by Beebuzz is fantastic, especially if you add a little wasabi or other spice - I've even been known to add Emeril's creole seasoning. You can also use that recipe as a basis to make other kinds of rolls with raw fish if you have access to sushi-quality fish. I see you're in NJ - if you're in North Jersey, there's a huge Japanese supermarket called Yaohan in Edgewater, NJ where you could definitely pick up fresh fish.

[Grimalkin]

Here's another variation I found that substitutes cauliflower for the rice: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=70174&highlight=nori

Karen's recipe looks good too, here the link in case you haven't found it: http://www.lowcarb.ca/karen/recipe024.html

Finding the fish can definitely be a problem, but if you are determined a good market will special order sushi-grade fish for you although it tends to be somewhat more expensive.

[lowcarbjo]

I looooove Sushi... now a days I have some miso soup, salad and sashimi that comes on a bed of daikon radish... which looks like shredded cabbage...it's yummy!

[amyella]

I love sushi as well! If you order a standard roll and pick off most of the rice, be cautious of the fact that the seaweed is still a carb. Not all seaweed is created equal and I know some is much higher in carbs than others!

Not sure if this is common nationwide, but here in San Diego sushi is really popular, and most of the sushi restaurants here will make any roll "protein style". They substitute a soy sheet (looks like seaweed except thinner and yellow) and leave out the rice. YUM! Couldn't hurt to ask your local sushi chef if they'll order the soy paper for you!