{"id":152,"date":"2016-09-09T23:15:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T03:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2016-09-12T20:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T00:59:44","slug":"sweet-potato-sushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/09\/sweet-potato-sushi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potato Sushi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I used to make sushi with fresh salmon sashimi from H-Mart in Fort Lee, sliced with fresh avocado. This is by far my favorite sushi to make now, and I don&#8217;t even miss the salmon!<\/p>\n<p><b>Secret\u00a0Sauce<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1\/2 cup \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0soy sauce<\/span><\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mirin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Place both together in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil, then reduce heat and let cook for 15 minutes on low until sauce reduces. \u00a0Let cool to room temperature. \u00a0Can be made ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Special Spicy Mayo Sauce<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1\/4 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cup mayo or Veganaise (I prefer Vegan Mayo)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>1 \u00a0Tablespoon Siracha<\/li>\n<li>1 \u00a0 teaspoon fresh squeezed lime juice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whisk ingredients together, can be made ahead and kept covered in refrigerator until needed<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Ingredients:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweet Potato, baked\u00a0in oven until firm<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Sliced cucumber<\/li>\n<li>Avocado, sliced<\/li>\n<li>Seaweed<\/li>\n<li>Brown rice (cooked in rice cooker, cooled)<\/li>\n<li>Toasted sesame seeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DIRECTIONS<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cover your mat in plastic wrap to keep it clean and to make rolling the sushi easier.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Place seaweed on the mat, cover with rice (can dampen fingers in water to prevent rice sticking to your fingers), sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brush with Secret Sauce, place sweet potato, cucumber and avocado in horizontal line on seaweed, brush again with Secret Sauce<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roll sushi.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0For uniform pieces slice in half, then line up one above the other and slice in half again, and then one more time. \u00a0Make sure you knife is sharp and dip in hot water.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Top with special spicy mayo sauce and more secret weapon sauce, a lot or a little.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/myfamilydish.com\/sweet-potato-sushi\/\">My Family Dish<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I used to make sushi with fresh salmon sashimi from H-Mart in Fort Lee, sliced with fresh avocado. This is by far my favorite sushi to make now, and I don&#8217;t even miss the salmon! Secret\u00a0Sauce 1\/2 cup \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0soy sauce 1\/4 cup \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mirin Place both together in a small sauce pan and bring to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian","category-healthy","category-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungrychooi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}