Seaweed Salad Recipe – Cookie and Kate

This seaweed salad is colourful, scrumptious, and boldly flavored with sesame dressing. Should you get pleasure from seaweed salads at Japanese eating places, do this enjoyable twist on the idea. Many ready seaweed salads are coloured with meals dyes, however this one obtains its full of life colour from veggies.

Should you’re comparatively new to seaweed, like I’m, this salad presents a fantastic introduction. It requires arame, which has a extra delicate and candy taste in comparison with different seaweed varieties. The crisp textures of cabbage and bell pepper, mixed with soy sauce and ginger, distinction superbly with the seaweed.

This salad is the right method to incorporate nutritious seaweed into your eating regimen. Seaweed’s dietary advantages range relying on the particular selection, however they’re typically a great supply of fiber, iodine, potassium and magnesium, amongst others. I attempt to devour all kinds of entire meals, so seaweed is a welcome addition.

Seaweed Salad Elements

Arame

Arame seaweed, or sea vegetable, is a brown algae. It grows off the shores of the Ise-Shima Nationwide Park in Japan, and has been a part of Japenese delicacies for hundreds of years. I ordered EDEN model arame on-line by way of Amazon, which appears to be offered out in the meanwhile. Search for it in well-stocked grocery shops or Asian supermarkets.

Cabbage

Crisp strands of cabbage provide numerous colourful texture. I used inexperienced and purple varieties to make this recipe as brilliant as attainable for images, however both possibility will work properly at house.

Bell Pepper

Candy bell pepper is the right addition to this seaweed salad. Select purple, orange or yellow for this salad.

Cilantro and Inexperienced Onion

These herbs provide extra recent taste. Should you don’t like cilantro, you may skip it.

Avocado

Creamy avocado is the right counterpoint to the crisp textures. Wait so as to add avocado till you’re able to serve every bowl.

Sesame Dressing

This do-it-yourself sesame dressing brings all of it collectively! It’s made with tamari (soy sauce), toasted sesame oil, and recent lime juice.

Tips on how to Make Seaweed Salad

Seaweed salad is surprisingly straightforward to make, and also you’ll discover the total recipe under. Arame requires a 5-to-10-minute soak in cool water. Throughout that point, you may whisk collectively the dressing and chop the greens.

Drain the arame, then squeeze out any extra water. Return it to the bowl, add the ready greens, pour within the full batch of dressing, and stir all of it collectively. How’s that for straightforward?

Reserve the avocado till simply earlier than serving because it browns over time. The recipe retains properly within the fridge for as much as 4 days.

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Tips on how to Serve Seaweed Salad

This seaweed salad is a enjoyable and nutritious facet salad. Serve it with Japanese delicacies and past at any time of yr.

You’ll be able to flip this salad into an entire meal by topping it with Crispy Baked Tofu or ready fish or shrimp, maybe on a mattress of brown rice. You would even skip the sesame dressing and serve it instead of the kale in my Construct-Your-Personal Buddha Bowls.

Listed below are a couple of extra complementary serving choices:

Leftover cabbage?

This recipe requires 1 1/2 cups of cabbage, lower than one full head. Leftover cabbage will maintain properly within the fridge, wrapped, for as much as one week.

Listed below are a couple of methods to make use of the remaining cabbage: 

Please let me know the way your recipe seems within the feedback! I really like listening to from you and hope you get pleasure from this salad.

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