Kale Chickpea Sushi Roll
I am always experimenting with food, and my travels inspire many of my recipes in friends’ kitchens worldwide. This Kale Chickpea Sushi Roll is one fabulous outcome. We made this at my fellow chefs’ home, and we loved the form, taste, and texture of the roll. The filling was absolutely soft, tender, and smooth to the bite. A couple of weeks days later, was scheduled to conduct an event in Terceira island, one of the nine islands of the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic oceans.
They call the islands the Hidden emerald jewel of the Atlantic. At a gathering of friends by the ocean in a little village called Biscoitus, I made similar recipes for my friends to sample, and all I can say is, “Holy moly,” all rolls got gobbled away delightfully; they genuinely loved it! The fresh organic kale and vegetables made an immense difference in flavor and fragrance.
A little more about the small idyllic Biscoitus village: it’s nestled around a little bay where fishermen and whalers caught fish and hunt Sperm whales about 50 years ago. Today this place is a small village with a few inhabitants as many emigrated after the EU imposed sanctions to save the whales. Biscoitos is a beautiful place to tour and relax; you can visit lush vineyards with the barriers of molten lava rocks protecting the vines that grow on the ground level as the winds get unyielding at times by the ocean.
The 9 Azores islands are volcanic. As such, the land is incredibly fertile and lush that whatever you plant grows, and they grow big. Our friends garden all kinds of vegetables are grown and they hardly ever buy any veggies. They plant sweet peas, kale, red cabbages, carrots, zucchini, herbs of all kinds, and many other plants according to the season. As it was lunchtime, we gathered some organic fresh kale leaves, sweets, peas, salads. We used ocean water to replace salt in our cooking. The final dishes were just mmmm, delicious! The freshly picked herbs tickle and stimulate the senses with such rich fragrance the meals turned into pure palatable joy.
Learn this simple recipe below on how to make this deliciously healthy dish.
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