Anyways, I made a really easy recipe from her book and (even easy as it is) it's really good! It's called a Nori Roll; basically a burrito but with a sheet of toasted nori instead of a tortilla. Anyone can put whatever they'd like in it, but mine had: apples, lettuce, avocado, umeboshi plums, brown rice, spinach, cilantro and edible flowers.After you chop up all the ingredients, you just put brown rice onto on half of the nori sheet, throw the ingredients on top, and wrap it up like a sushi hand roll. Easy!
And for anybody wondering what umeboshi plums look like:
Ok, just in case someone is taking a look at this and has never had an umeboshi plum-it's kind of an acquired taste. It's a pickled ume plum to be specific. The first time I tasted it, I was kind of freaked out because I thought it was supposed to taste like fruit. It sort of does, but it's salted and tastes, well, pickled. I started reading recipes with umeboshi included in it, and tried it out (3 recipes so far). It gets really addicting! It's a cool flavor once you get over the newness of it. In addition to that, it's great for you. Here are some of the...
Health Benefits
There are many ways that umeboshi may be able to cure what ails you. For one, they are highly alkaline and are thought to combat nausea, indigestion and systemic toxicity, meaning they are a remedy for hangover. For another, they contain citric acid, which is an antibacterial agent, and the creators of old wives’ tales in Japan recommend them for the treatment of colds and influenza. In addition, eating umeboshi has historically been thought to combat fatigue, and for this reason they were part of a samurai’s rations and were carried by Japanese troops during the Sino-Japanese war. Finally, the most important health claim of all, although this is not proven, is that you will live longer if you eat umeboshi.
I got this source here
