Rainbow Sushi Donuts

Sushi lovers: pay attention! Making your own sushi has never been so much fun. This is one of the best sushi recipes (if we may say so ourselves!). We are going to tell you how to make rainbow sushi donuts. From this sushi recipe, you can also make a rainbow sushi bowl or go for traditional sushi.

We color the sushi rice in 3 different colors (yellow, purple and blue) with super food powder. Instead of this powder, you can also color the sushi rice with turmeric powder, red cabbage juice and red cabbage juice with a pinch of baking soda. We make the other colors of the rainbow with different types and colored vegetables! Read on quickly.

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How to Boil Sushi Rice

The ingredient that cannot be missing when making sushi is rice! Sushi shouldn’t even be called sushi without rice. Cooking sushi rice yourself is not very easy. The rice must be sticky so that it does not fall apart, but it should also not be too sticky. A rice cooker makes it easy to cook the rice perfectly, but if you don’t have it, it can also be cooked in a pan on the stove.

You can buy sushi rice in most supermarkets. Or visit an Asian supermarket!

The first step of this recipe is to cook sushi rice. Bring 250 grams of sushi rice (1 cup) to boil with 350 milliliters of water (1.5 cup). Reduce the heat to low and cook for 10 minutes with a lid on the pan. Remove from the heat and leave the lid on the pan for 15 minutes (only take the lid off after 15 minutes, so do not take a look in between!).

After cooking, it is important to season the sushi rice with rice vinegar. Rice vinegar makes the sushi! Fun fact: sushi even means vinegar rice. And not raw fish, which many people think.

DIY Sushi

Sushi is often made with raw fish, but this is certainly not a requirement of sushi! The sushi rice and rice vinegar is what makes sushi, sushi. The great thing is that you can add the ingredients that you like when you make sushi yourself. We don’t eat fish, so we left the fish out of this recipe. However, if you do eat fish yourself, you can add salmon or tuna, for example.

Sushi is often rolled in nori seaweed sheets. Because we make sushi donuts, we put them on the nori seaweed sheets. Nori sheets are super healthy. They contain a lot of vitamins and minerals. If you don’t like these seaweed sheets, you can just leave them out.

Vegan Sushi

This recipe is completely vegan! Making vegan sushi yourself is not difficult and there are also more and more sushi restaurants that are completely vegan. For example the Vegan Sushi Bar in Amsterdam!

Rainbow Sushi

When the sushi is cooked we will color it! But before you color the sushi, decide how you will do it. We use superfood powder from The Organic Lab (butterly pea for blue, purple sweet potato for purple and turmeric for yellow). For blue, you can also use blue spirulina powder.

You don’t necessarily need these superfood powders, because you can also color the rice with turmeric powder from a jar from the supermarket and red cabbage juice (with a pinch of baking soda for blue). Or you use artificial food coloring.

Mix the turmeric powder with 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar. Add the purple powder (or reduced red cabbage juice) with 1 tbsp rice vinegar. Mix the blue butterfly pea powder (or reduced red cabbage juice with a pinch of baking soda) with 1 tbsp water. 

Do you use blue spirulina powder? Mix it with 1 tbsp rice vinegar. Butterfly pea and red cabbage cannot be mixed with vinegar as it will turn purple.

Divide the rice between 3 trays and color each tray a color (yellow, blue, purple).

Sushi Donuts

Make sure you have a donut mold that you can fill with the three colors of rice. Make sure the mold is first greased with oil. Press the rice with wet hands, so that the whole shape is well filled! If you have dry hands, the rice will stick to your fingers. Place the baking tin in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Then we put the rice donuts on nori squares and top them with vegetables and other toppings!

Make A Sushi Bowl

You can also make a sushi bowl or poke bowl instead of sushi donuts! See our poke bowl recipe on how to do this. Add fish to the sushi bowl / poke bowl if you like it!

Sushi Sashimi

Many people think that sashimi is sushi, but it is not. Sashimi is thinly sliced raw and fresh fish, such as salmon or tuna. Sashimi is served without rice so no sushi!

Rainbow Recipes

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