Brown Rice & Quinoa Sushi

Sushi Rolls

I have made sushi a couple of times in the last few weeks - and having largely eliminated white rice from my diet lately, I went searching for an alternative for sushi. While looking for brown rice recipes, I came across this one for brown rice and quinoa rolls. The perfect thing to use up that quinoa sitting unused in the cupboard.

And, I'm pleased to report, it was fantastic! I cooked the quinoa and medium grain brown rice together (1 cup of rice, half a cup of quinoa and and about two and a half cups of water), using the absorption method. 

This yielded two cups of rice and quinoa (which makes a bunch of sushi - each roll used between half and three quarters of a cup). With the addition of a packaged sushi powder and a little exrtra rice wine vinegar, this was a suitably sticky and tasty mix to roll.

My sushi is laden with capsicum, cucumber, an omlette, avocado and alternately smoked salmon and shredded chicken. Delicous! Full of colour, and the extra fibre and protein from the non-white rice!