The Vegetable Sushi Cookbook

by Shoji, Izumi; Yamaguchi, Noriko

• ISBN13: 9784770031501
• ISBN10: 4770031505
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-01
• Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc

Summary

The Vegetable Sushi Cookbookis the brainchild of Izumi Shoji, a hugely popular blogger in Japan, who shares her expertise in turning a wide variety of vegetables into delicious and healthy sushi meals. Each recipe has been chosen for its nutritious ingredients and delightful taste, and is easy to make with basic cooking skills and no special tools. Shoji offers alternatives for any ingredients that might be difficult to find in some areas. The author covers the entire range of sushi dishes, fromnigiri-zushi(the familiar fish-atop-rice style) tomaki-zushi(rolled sushi), andchirashi-zushi(scattered sushi), including theoshi-zushistyle popular in the Osaka area. Also explained, in detail with many photographs, are the various styles of preparing the vegetables for use in sushi dishes, from grilling to steaming and frying. Each dish is photographed in full color. There are additional chapters on making sushi bento, the lunch box craze that's sweeping the country; and on preparing festive vegetable sushi for parties.

Author Biography

Izumi Shoji is a Tokyo resident and mother, who turned her interest in vegetarian cooking into a successful blog in 2007. With its daily recipes, Vege Dining quickly made an impact on the blogosphere (and now averages 60,000 unique users daily). Shoji's first book, featuring recipes from her blog, was released in March 2008, and sold over 70,000 copies in Japan. The Vegetable Sushi Cookbook is her fifteenth book and her first in English.