Vegan Sushi Wraps

Raw vegan Sushi Wraps are a deliciously light meal for warm summer days. They're made with nori seaweed sheets and loaded with veggies, such as cucumber, bell pepper, avocado, and carrots. Serve them for lunch or a light dinner. This easy recipe is vegan and gluten-free.

Raw Vegan Meals

As the weather heats up (and it's been hot here!), I’m ready to move away from hot food like stir-fries and pastas. I like to eat cooling raw foods in the summer months, and I’ve been craving salads and wraps. Also, I recently read Bella Mahaya Carter’s memoir Raw: My Journey from Anxiety to Joy, which has inspired me to get into the kitchen and experimenting with un-cooking again.

A few years ago, when my Vitamix and dehydrator were new, I spent an entire summer un-cooking. I made zucchini-based wraps, raw corn tortillas, sunflower seed breads, buckwheat crusted pizzas, "pastas" with nut cheese filling, and lots and lots of kale chips. Then, the cold weather hit and comfort food cravings hit. I lost interest in raw meals. I do eat raw foods in the summer, but not as much as I did back then.

Vegan Sushi Wraps

These vegan Sushi Wraps were one of my go-to lunches during my raw summer. The inspiration for them came from two different recipes from RAWvolution by Matt Amsden. There’s a delicious sunflower seed cheese in the book that I still make often, but over the years I’ve tweaked it to my liking, adding miso and nutritional yeast. I’ve added it to the book’s Asian Vegetable Nori Rolls, which I make with some of my favorite sandwich fillings.

In these wraps, collard leaves are placed on top of the nori sheets, before the vegetables are added. The collards protect the nori from the moisture of the vegetables, as it would shrivel or tear if it got too wet. If you don’t like the taste of seaweed, just skip it and go straight to the collards, as they make excellent wraps.

What You Need

• Sunflower seeds
• Garlic
• Nutritional yeast
• Lemon juice
• Tamari
• Miso
• Nori
• Collard green leaves 
• Avocado 
• 2 carrots shredded
• Cucumber
• Red bell pepper

See the recipe card for exact amounts.

Sunflower Seeds

This recipe will work with roasted sunflower seeds, but raw, unroasted, and unsalted work best. Raw nuts and seeds are softer and easier to blend than the roasted variety. I've also found that using the roasted type can change the taste of the recipe, giving it a slightly burnt flavor.

Make sure you soak your seeds for a few hours before you make the sunflower seed "cheese." They won't blend as well if they haven't been soaked.

How to Make Vegan Sushi Wraps

This recipe may look a little complicated, but I promise you that it's not!

• First you make the sunflower cheese by mixing all of the ingredients together in a food processor.
• Then you make the wraps by laying a sheet of nori out on a clean surface and placing a collard leaf on top of it.
• Next you place some of the cheese and some of the cut vegetables onto one side of the collard leaf.
• Finally you gently roll the nori, tucking in the edges as you go.
• Repeat with the rest of the nori sheets and filling.

Recipe Notes

I like to fill my wraps with avocado, cucumber, carrots, and red bell pepper, but this is a versatile recipe, so you can use pretty much any vegetable you prefer. Try some of your favorite sushi fillings, such as mango, beets, red cabbage, roasted shiitakes, and tempura sweet potato.

Not everyone likes the taste of seaweed, and that's okay. If you want to try these wraps without the nori, just skip it and use the collard greens as a wrap.

Serving Your Sushi Wraps

These wraps will hold up for a few hours in the fridge, so they can be made ahead of time. They’re great for a packed lunch for work, and they’re terrific on weekend picnics, too. Serve them alongside a raw kale slaw or cruciferous crunch salad.

Vegan Sushi Wraps

Dianne

Loaded with veggies and an easy-to-make sunflower seed cheese, raw vegan Sushi Wraps are a deliciously light meal for warm summer days.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Course Sandwich

Cuisine Fusion

Servings 4 wraps

Calories 288 kcal

Ingredients

  

For the Sunflower Seed Cheese

• ¾ cup sunflower seeds soaked for about 4 hours, drained, and rinsed
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon tamari
• 1 teaspoon miso

For the Wraps

• 4 sheets nori
• 4 large collard leaves tough stems removed (the leaves can be cut in half, if it’s easier)
• 1 avocado pitted and sliced
• 2 carrots shredded
• 1 medium-sized cucumber thinly sliced
• 1 red bell pepper seeded and thinly sliced

Instructions

 

Make the Cheese

• Mix all of the ingredients together in a food processor until thoroughly combined. The cheese will be a little lumpy, which is okay.

Make the Wraps

• Lay a sheet of nori out on a clean, dry surface. Place a collard leaf on top if it. Spread about 2 tablespoons of the sunflower seed cheese long one of the sides, about half an inch from the edge.
• Layer on some of the avocado, carrots, cucumber, and bell pepper.
• Take the edge with the filling and gently roll it, tucking the filling in with your fingers, if necessary. Wet the edge of the nori to seal the roll.
• Repeat with the remaining three sheets of nori.
• Serve cold or at room temperature.

Other raw recipes you might enjoy include:

• Raw Vegan Tacos
• Sunflower Seed Tuna Wraps
• Strawberry Kale Salad
• Kale Slaw
• Blueberry Pie

Other wrap recipes you might enjoy include:

• Curried Mango Chickpea Wraps
• Buffalo Soy Curl Wraps
• Grilled Eggplant Wraps
• Thai Tempeh Lettuce Wraps