Healthy Sushi Bowl

If Alex and I can agree on one thing, it’s sushi. OK, we agree on a lot of things. Most things, really. Except sports and salsa dancing – you take a guess who likes which! We’re both huge sushi fans, which may sound odd for cooks who focus on vegetarian cooking, but we consider ourselves flexitarian. Our diet is flexible enough to eat meat on occasion, though we mostly eat vegetarian at home! So when we want to have sushi flavors on an everyday basis, we turn to this vegan sushi bowl. Keep reading for the recipe!

Your 5 favorite foods…of all time?

As a good flexitarian, raw fish is my biggest delicacy. It is Number 1 on my Top 5 Foods list. Incidentally, we started discussing our list of favorite foods of all time with some friends over sushi the other night. Have you ever pondered your Top 5 Foods? If you’re wondering, here’s what we came up with:

Sonja: 1. Raw tuna (tartare or sashimi) 2. Black truffle anything (like this risotto) 3. Sushi 4. Dark chocolate 5. Paella Alex: 1. Short ribs 2. Ripe tomatoes 3. Raw tuna 4. Coffee 5. Celery hearts

How to make this vegan sushi bowl

In the meantime, here is an ode to sushi – vegan sushi bowls that are home cook friendly. While we’ve had friends make us sushi before, it’s way easier to pile it all into a bowl. While this does take a bit of prep time making the rice and chopping the vegetables, it’s absolutely worth it in the end. For this vegan sushi bowl, we’ve used brown rice, nori paper (the seaweed paper used to roll sushi), and a bunch of veggies. It’s all tossed with an orange and soy dressing and sprinkled with sesame seeds. It gives the illusion of eating sushi, without being nearly as labor intensive. We loved it as a weeknight meal where we prepped the sushi bowl components beforehand. We also used our Instant Pot method for brown rice: which is quicker than stovetop and hands off!

Looking for healthy bowl meals?

Outside of this vegan sushi bowl, here are some of our favorite healthy bowl meal recipes:

Veggie Burrito Bowls Healthy Rice Bowls with Fried Egg Chickpea Couscous Bowls with Tahini Sauce Raw Falafel Buddha Bowls Greek Sofrito Quinoa Bowl Grain Bowls with Roasted Fall Vegetables Vegetarian Quinoa Bibimbap Bowls Chickpea Fattoush Bowls Thai Salad with Peanut Sauce Dressing Homemade Dolsot Bibimbap Stress Reducing Avocado and Quinoa Bowl Broccoli and Turmeric Yellow Rice Bowl