Are you on a low-carb diet, but fancy some delicious sushi today? Here’s a brilliant one Alternative to sushi rice this will surprise you: sticky cauliflower rice. Let us show you how to do it!
Rice cauliflower is very popular low-carb rice substitute in the keto diet. We especially love it because it’s a fun way to eat more veggies and have a grain-free option when you hit your daily carb intake.
If you’ve never made cauliflower rice before, you might be wondering: how do you turn a whole cauliflower into rice? Very simple: grate or puree the delicate florets until they are small look like white grains of rice. Simply!
Now turning cauliflower rice into glutinous rice is a little trickier, as cauliflower doesn’t have any starch to bind the “grains” together like regular rice does. But don’t worry, we’ve got it covered!
Many recipes use cream cheese to bind the cauliflower rice and make it sticky. But we wanted to use an ingredient that is Vegan, low in calories and tasteless. And that ingredient is agar-agar!
What is that? Agar-agar is a natural gelling agent obtained from red algae, often found as a powder. It activates when cooked and solidifies when cooled – just like gelatin, but plant-based!
You may have seen agar-agar in dessert recipes like puddings and cheesecake, and now you can use it to make cauliflower sushi rice, too. It works wonders!
In the following recipe, we will show you how to cook agar agar and add it to steamed cauliflower rice to make sushi rice. make sure you follow our instructions carefully and work quickly as agar agar sets quickly.
Once the sticky rice is sorted, have fun preparing your low carb sushi rolls, nigiri and onigiri. The standard ingredients make enough cauliflower sushi rice for 1 serving of maki rolls, about 8 medium hosomaki.
And if you’re looking for sushi ideas to make your low-carb sticky rice a reality, try these crispy tofu rolls, mango maki, and kombu onigiri—all delicious!