In recognition of Pack Your Lunch Day, here’s a fun idea for snazzing up your brown bag—homemade sushi! No, it’s not hard to make. Nope, you don’t even have to have a sushi mat to make it. Yes, you can fill it with pretty much anything your heart desires! We do urge you to go for short-grain brown rice; it’s a whole grain. Check out the video to see just how easy it is to make your own sushi; you can become a pro in no time! Editor Ann Taylor Pittman shows just how easy it is to make your own brown rice sushi rolls. Brown Rice Veggie Sushi This recipe makes two sushi rolls—one for your lunch and one for your kid’s lunchbox. (It also doubles easily for four rolls.) Use it as a starting point and customize with other fillings: try pickled or grilled veggies, smoked salmon, chopped shrimp, or crab salad. 1 1/2 cups water 3/4 cup uncooked short-grain brown rice 1 1/2 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar 2 sheets nori 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds 4 cucumber strips 4 carrot strips, blanched 6 avocado slices 2 teaspoons Sriracha Bring 1 1/2 cups water and rice to a boil in a medium saucepan; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 40 minutes. Remove from heat; let stand, covered, for 10 minutes. Uncover; drizzle with vinegar, tossing well to combine. Cool to room temperature. Wrap a sushi mat entirely in plastic wrap. Arrange 1 nori sheet on mat, rough side up; pat half of rice evenly over nori. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds. Flip nori over, rice side down. Arrange 2 cucumber strips, 2 carrot strips, and 3 avocado slices along edge of nori closest to you; top with 1 teaspoon Sriracha. Roll up nori tightly using mat. Place roll, seam side down, on a cutting board. Repeat procedure with remaining nori, rice, sesame seeds, cucumber, carrot, avocado, and Sriracha. Cut each roll into 7-8 pieces. SERVES 2 (serving size: 1 roll) CALORIES 357; FAT 8g (sat 1.4g, mono 4.3g, poly 1.8g); PROTEIN 7g; CARB 65g; FIBER 8g; CHOL m0g; IRON 2mg; SODIUM 311mg; CALC 41mg See the recipe here: http://simmerandboil.cookinglight.com/2015/03/10/diy-whole-grain-sushi/#sthash.yEVRcZcG.dpuf Subscribe to Cooking Light - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=cookinglight Check out some of our great cooking series! Mad Delicious - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZt7NVmAen8l1oFkCh0ayEdy01KnlRbe Wow! You’ve Got to Try This How To - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZt7NVmAen8Nm1Q-zxGjO5of2dal9JqM Test Kitchen Tips - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZt7NVmAen9mR8sDlerlQxofnyHdy1fy Cooking Light is America’s #1 food magazine with 25+ years of expertise in making healthy recipes taste great. As the largest epicurean magazine in the country, Cooking Light informs more than 11 million readers every issue with its trademark accessible approach to healthy food and its coverage of fitness, home, beauty, travel, and other aspects of living well. Find us at http://www.cookinglight.com Website: www.cookinglight.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cooking_Light Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CookingLight Instagram: http://instagram.com/cookinglight/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cookinglight/ Cooking Light Diet: https://www.cookinglightdiet.com/ Cooking Light Magazine is published by Time, Inc.

• published: 12 Mar 2015
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