Nori Wraps

If you love sushi but don't love rolling it at home, these easy nori wraps are for you. They taste just as good, especially with spicy mayo drizzled on top!

Nori Wraps

Meal #2 this week: Nori wraps! 

If you missed Monday’s post, I made these Mango Black Bean Ginger Rice Bowls as part of this week’s three meal series showing how ingredients from one meal can work into the next, and then again into one more. I did a similar five part plan a few months ago, and many of you wrote to tell me how helpful it was… so here we are again! At the end of the week, I’ll recap it all with a full grocery list.

For this recipe, I started with these ingredients that I had on hand from Monday’s mango bowls:

– Leftover rice
– 1/2 of a large cucumber
– an extra mango
– 1/2 an avocado
– pickled ginger and sesame seeds

Cucumber Mango Nori Wraps

I basically wrapped all of that up into nori squares and made some spicy mayo to go along with it. If you’ve never tried nori – now’s your chance! Sea vegetables are so good for you 🙂 and the crispy nori is so delicious wrapped around soft rice and juicy mango. If you’re still not convinced, these would also be yummy as lettuce wraps or collard wraps (if you use collards, blanch them briefly to soften the coarse greens).

Cucumber Mango Nori Wraps

There are some *very* optional ingredients here: strips of baked tofu (for protein) and a dab of umeboshi paste (salty pickled plum) that I always have on hand to enjoy with my rice. 

This is a fun sushi-like dinner when you don’t feel like making actual sushi rolls (if you do want to make sushi rolls, check out this post). For these wraps, just prep all of the ingredients and assemble each wrap as you’re ready to eat it so that the nori stays crisp. 

These wraps are a nice snack or light lunch. Depending on your appetite, you could certainly make more rice and/or add additional toppings into the mix if you like. 

Stay tuned for the final recipe in the series on Friday! 

nori wraps

Nori Wraps

rate this recipe:
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Serves 2
Make these easy nori wraps for a light lunch or snack! They're just as good as sushi, but they take half the effort.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cooked short-grain white rice, or brown rice
  • splash of rice vinegar
  • pinch of cane sugar
  • 2 tablespoons tamari
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 to 3 nori sheets, cut into quarters
  • ½ English cucumber, sliced into strips
  • 1 ripe mango, sliced into strips
  • ½ avocado, sliced into strips
  • pickled ginger
  • sesame seeds, for sprinkling

spicy mayo

  • cup mayo
  • 2 teaspoons sriracha

optional extras

Instructions

  • Fold the rice vinegar, sugar, and salt into the hot cooked rice. Cover until ready to use.
  • In a very small bowl, combine the tamari and the lime juice and set aside to use as a dipping sauce.
  • Make the spicy mayo: In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise and the sriracha.
  • Serve the nori squares, rice, cucumber, mango, avocado, pickled ginger, sesame seeds, and desired extras, on a platter to assemble as you eat, mixing and matching fillings as you like. Serve with the tamari-lime dipping sauce and spicy mayo.

 

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  1. Vanessa KIng
    09.04.2021

    Hi
    I love all your recipes. But, I am getting very frustrated at not being able to find the snack recipes easily as you do not have a finding mechanism for them. They are not on your search list. It would be really good to have a search section for snacks and health bars. Also one for cakes as not every one in the world thinks cakes and sweet treats are desserts – me for one!

    thank you for your lovely recipes

  2. Sara
    11.06.2018

    Hi
    Do you post nutrition info specifically calories? I’m looking for low calorie recipes ideally vegetarian. Otherwise I will have to start counting it up myself 😭

    • Jeanine Donofrio
      11.07.2018

      Hi Sara, I’m sorry I don’t count calories… doing so has led to unhealthy eating habits for me in the past.

  3. sabrina from newkitchenlife.com
    06.07.2018

    so much fun and beautiful ingredients, enough so that it can actually be considered food art if you don’t want to eat it, thank you

  4. Ella from thelocalsprout.com
    06.07.2018

    Wow! I can’t wait to try this recipe! It looks amazing. Thanks so much for sharing <3

  5. Brittany Audra @ Audra's Appetite
    06.06.2018

    Such a fresh and fun idea!

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