| Start with a cucumber. Normally I'd prefer to use an English cucumber but there's a bit more meat in a US type cucumber. Using a very sharp knife, uniformly cut around the cucumber. You want it to be as uniformly cylindrical as possible. |
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| Cut off the ends. |
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| Start a slit, and slowly cut layers off of the cucumber going around in circles. You want a nice uniform sheet of cucumber to use as an alternative to nori. |
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| Here's the sheet of cucumber "nori". |
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| It's not very easy to use a rolling mat to get tight rolls, so do it by hand, and be very gentle. Here I have sushi rice and avocado rolled in my cucumber sheet. |
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| Here I'm steaming mini bell-peppers cut in half lengthwise, and there's asparagus on the lower level of the steamer basket. |
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| Steam harder vegetables long enough to make them tender. |
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| The finished product here, nigri sushi using vegetables. The colors, flavors, and presentation makes it worth it to try vegetarian sushi at least once. |
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