Sushi handrolls

[Naja]

You won't miss rice with these treats. Wrap up some of the following combinations with 1/4 sheet of dried nori seaweed ad enjoy. Nori (dried laver) has less than 1 net carb per 10 sheets, so enjoy. Measure portions and count carbs in the rest of your ingredients.

Home cured or raw salmon sashimi, avocado and cream cheese

Crisply broiled salmon skin, umeshiso pickled plum paste, cooked salmon, cucumber sticks or bean sprouts

Raw salmon or tuna sashimi, crisp raw conch or mirugai clam, wasabi mayonnaise

Raw tuna, avocado, tobiko or masago fish eggs

Fish eggs (caviar) and a raw quail egg

Chopped conch or mirugai, mayonnaise, cayenne pepper (spicy hand roll), crisp bean sprouts

Real crabmeat (not the fake surimi kind that has starch fillers), avocado, cucumber, masago fish eggs

Wasabi mayonnaise, soy sauce mayonnaise and chili mayonnaise make excellent dipping sauces. Add small amounts to taste of prepared wasabi (not wasabi powder), soy sauce or chili powder to 1 tsp good homemade mayonnaise and mix thoroughly.

Be careful of pickled ginger as it is cured with sugar. If you are fond of a ginger taste with your sushi, mix crushed ginger or ginger juice with mayonnaise and a touch of soy sauce for another creative dipping sauce.

Mixing salty, crunchy fish eggs such as tobiko or masago with mayonnaise makes another delicious addition to your handrolls or your dipping sauce.

Any of your old sushi favorites can be made in this handroll style. Bring your own mayonnaise to the sushi bar for a delicious rich dipping sauce that will help fill you up instead of rice. Remember that 1 tsp of soy sauce = about .4 of a carb.

[isyimd]

SUSHI!!!!!!!

Hi,

It is funny that I stumbled on this tonight. We just ate Japanese food and I cheated and ordered my favorite (a Spider hand roll) yuuummmm

I am not big on the California type stuff with avocados in them but I do like all the other veggies, masago eggs, and especially the fried crab. How does the fried crab stack up carb wise? I looked it over and it doesn't seem breaded. What do you think??

I am glad to hear about Nori. But being Japanese, I sure miss my rice!!!

[Naja]

The fried crab is fine carb-wise if it is not breaded. If it is breaded in Panko (Japanese bread crumbs) and you eat too much of that, your carb count can make you a very sorry out-of-ketosis dieter by the end of the day. That stuff is evil and sometimes has sweetening in it as well as wheat flour.

Next time ask them to leave the breading off the fried crab in the spider roll, and to use a little bit of shredded daikon instead of rice in the hand roll.

I miss my rice too; I grew up with the gohan always ready in the rice cooker. A meal was just not a meal without white rice. Ochazuke for breakfast was just the thing, white rice and strong green tea and pickled vegetable tsukemono. Maybe one of those packets with dried plum and salmon with crunchy little balls and nori strips. A nice salty umeboshi or umeshiso paste, mmm.

I tried to make cauliflower faux rice substitute texture-wise for sticky Japanese rice with NotStarch, and failed miserably. Oh well, still working on it.

[isyimd]

mmmmmm the memories

You bring back great childhood memories. Ochazuke was a comfort food for me. I never ate it for breakfast though. Most the time, I ate it when I was feeling under the weather. Kind of like some people would chicken soup. My mom would make umeboshi rice balls. We usually ate the pickled ones in a jar instead of dried. She would sprinkle sesame salt all over the outside. yuummm

Ok to night I couldn't stand it. We went to a Japanese Sushi BUFFET. YIKES.

I ate 2 spider handrolls and 2 pieces of futomaki. I am sure I will regret it tomorrow but at the time, it was irresistable!!

[Naja]

Re: mmmmmm the memories

You bring back great childhood memories. Ochazuke was a comfort food for me. I never ate it for breakfast though. Most the time, I ate it when I was feeling under the weather. Kind of like some people would chicken soup. My mom would make umeboshi rice balls. We usually ate the pickled ones in a jar instead of dried. She would sprinkle sesame salt all over the outside. yuummm

Oh, for some sticky rice balls with gomashio and a fat pickled plum on the inside! I remember those too.

Sushi rice is surely one of the worst choices on Atkins as it contains sugar as well as white rice. *sigh* Let me know how it affects you. One of the things I plan to add back in when I'm in Lifetime Maintenance is an occasional portion of REAL gohan. I can live without the sugar and rice vinegar additions though.

And watch out for the pickled ginger; mega-carbs in that stuff.

[tug©]

i wish i could tell you what NYC restaurant serves these, but it should be easy enough to make ...

they start with a sheet of nori and spread it with seafood (shrimp, real crab, or lobster) salad .. then lay across strips of filling, tuna, veggies .. and roll it!

when cut into bite sized pieces seafood salad looks like rice would.

they're Y-U-M-M-Y !

[gaptrose]

I am sorry to be late to this subject but I just joined the bulletin board. I have been wanting to know if you can eat the dried seaweed on induction or do you need to wait until the later phases? In my household we usually celebrate milestones with a sushi night and boy do i miss them.

[Naja]

I am sorry to be late to this subject but I just joined the bulletin board. I have been wanting to know if you can eat the dried seaweed on induction or do you need to wait until the later phases? In my household we usually celebrate milestones with a sushi night and boy do i miss them.

Technically the answer is no, because it is not on the list of Induction foods. So if you are an Atkins Purist, you must shake your finger admonishingly at anyone who even thinks about eating nori seaweed on Induction. I am not an Atkins Purist.

Scientifically the answer is that one sheet of dried laver seaweed weighs less than three grams and contains .13 carbs (that's a bit over one tenth of one carb). There is no way that one or two sheets of seaweed can possibly have any effect on your ketosis or on your diet, except to make it more bearable and easy to stay on. That's a positive effect.

Dried nori laver seaweed is a) not consumed in large enough quantities to make any difference to a diet, and b) is lower carb than most of the vegetables on the approved list in any case.

[gaptrose]

Naja, I have been trying to be a purist and it has not workd. I am already starting to stall and I was wondering what to do. In the meantime, other people i know are not purist but the stick to the spirit and lose. I think I like the way you think and I will try it so I will stay on track. Thank you.

[tulula]

Can I come to dinner with you guys!?! Your menus sounds amazing! I LOVE sushi - it's my favourite food and would happily live on sashimi and still stick to my diet!

Could you please recommend any good websites which can give me tips on japanese cookery?

Also how bad is edaname? Is it an evil sin covered in sugar? (please excuse my ignorance!)

I am travelling to Tokyo in January (part of the reason to lose the weight!) and can't wait to try all those gorgeous foods!!

Thanks very much

[Kalymi]

YEah!!! I cant wait to make dinner now, thanks so much!!

[Naja]

Also how bad is edaname? Is it an evil sin covered in sugar? (please excuse my ignorance!)

Edamame are boiled soybeans. They aren't particularly high in carbs, and they are a tasty high protein snack.