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Quinoa sushi bowl, vegan
Vegan quinoa sushi bowl - a healthy lunch idea that tastes like sushi and is simple to make! This meal is light and satisfying at the same time.
If you’re looking for a fast and healthy vegan lunch recipe with quinoa that tastes like sushi – this is it. It’s a vegan quinoa sushi bowl with avocado, gluten-free and tasty.
It’s healthy, spicy (thanks to that nose blowing wasabi), tastes like sushi (genius), simple and takes about 5 min to make. It’s also gluten-free and if you don’t add any fish – vegan.
Anyone who knows us knows that Im not fancy when it comes to food. We love basic stuff – falafels, wraps, lentils, chickpeas and their gasses afterwards.
But a few weeks ago we were deeply desiring a sushi. You know how out of nowhere you start thinking of a certain food and you just can’t stop? And then you start googling all kinds of recipes with it?
Yeah, that.
In our mind we were picturing something tasty with quinoa instead of rice to add a little spark and nutrition to our boring and lately undernourished life. In reality we knew we can’t make quinoa sushi. We've tried. What we can make when we try to make quinoa sushi is a big mess – we don’t know what we're doing wrong.
We did use some inspiration from this awesome recipe here – it said 5 minute sushi bowl. There are two things we like about the title of that recipe: 5 minute & sushi. That recipe fulfilled all our expectations – 5 minutes and it tastes like sushi.
Our only unanswered quetion about sushi bowls is how do you eat them? Do you use a fork? Sticks? Spoons or some new invention? Somebody told us about some freak invention between a fork and a spoon (a foon??).
Might be old, after all a few weeks we saw a fish knife for the first time at one fish “restaurant” and we had no idea what to do with it. We thought it was a joke – we can’t cut with it, we can’t comb our hair with it, we can’t sing with it…seriously what is it good for?
So we'll be the first to admit it – here we used a large spoon. We made sure everything from that bowl made it safely into our mouth.
Note: For this recipe we used some mediterranian mushrooms from a jar at first (see picture), but we actually liked the bowl better without them. Avocado, peppers and that notable wasabi dressing make the whole thing complete. So if you don’t have a jar of mushrooms – let it go, don’t need it.
You’ll also need some cooked + cooled quinoa for this.
Health and beauty benefits
We're pretty happy with the health benefits of this quinoa bowl too. First of all: we did not have to take a nap after lunch, so that’s a good start. Second – we love how nutritious this bowl is: protein, iron, vitamin C, Bs, calcium, omega-3’s, fiber…Pretty impressive for something made in just about 5 min.
How about you? Have you ever had a quinoa sushi bowl? Or a sushi bowl at all? More importantly what do you use to eat it?
- Yield: 3
- Prep: 10 minutes
- Total: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups quinoa, cooked
- 1 nori sheet - sliced thinly
- 1 cucumber, peeled and chopped
- 1 avocado, peeled and chopped
- 2 spring onions/scallions, chopped
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds
- 2 tbsp flax seeds
- 1 tbsp nigella seeds
- 1 yellow bell pepper, sliced
Sauce
- 1 tbsp wasabi paste
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp sesame oil (roasted isn't healthier, but we find it more delicious)
- 1 tbsp vinegar (we used balsamic)
Method
- Fluff cooked quinoa and mix in a large bowl with scallions and the wasabi sauce.
- Divide into two bowls and arrange on top: nori, cucumber, avocado, bell pepper. Optionally - some mushrooms.
- Top with nigella seeds, flax seeds and sesame seeds.
- Eat with a spoon, fork or a foon.
