If you like sushi, this video and recipe is for you. I reveal some very important sushi secrets on this live cooking segment on Charlotte Today…Did you know that most California rolls are made with imitation crab meat (i.e. minced fish protein by-product, egg whites, MSG, artificial food coloring and other chemical additives and preservatives)?

Food Babe's Quinoa Vegetable Maki Sushi Roll Print Serves: 4 Ingredients 1 cup quinoa cooked in water to package instructions

2 tsp rice wine vinegar

1 tsp coconut palm sugar

2 tbsp toasted black sesame seeds

6 nori sheets

1 avocado

1 red pepper

1 carrot

½ small cucumber

6 spears asparagus

4 tbsp namu shoyu sauce

pickled ginger

sriacha sauce to taste

wasabi powder Instructions In a bowl, stir together quinoa, vinegar and sugar On a cutting board, slice avocado, red pepper, carrot and cucumber into small thin strips. Trim hard ends of asparagus Spread a thin layer of quinoa on one nori sheet, covering the whole sheet, except 1 inch space along far edge Place strips of avocado, red pepper, carrot, cucumer and asparagus on nori sheets on the near end on top of quinoa Moisten the clean edge of nori with a bit of water Beginning at the filling end, roll up the nori very tightly with a bamboo sushi mat and press firmly when you get to the moistened side to seal. Repeat these steps for the remaining nori sheets Cut each roll into 6 pieces Serve with namu shoyu sauce for dipping, sriracha, wasabi, and/or pickled ginger Notes **Please pick all organic ingredients if possible** 3.2.1682

Here are some of the special organic ingredients I used, along with an affiliate link to get them online if you can’t find them in your local grocery store:

A very big thank you goes to Healthy Home Market for providing the ingredients for today’s cooking segment and to the hosts Colleen Odegaard and Ramona Holloway, Associate Producer Bob Carroll, Production Assistant Kellie Brown and of course Yasu, my dear sushi chef extraordinaire and friend.

Sayonara!

Food Babe

P.S. Want more secrets? Check out these two posts that go into detail about how to order sushi and which ingredients to avoid.

And if you like posts like this – share them with your friends – I bet they didn’t know most wasabi in the U.S. was full of food coloring. Please spread the word – we don’t want our loved ones eating petro-chemicals!