Seaweed Salad Recipe – Cookie and Kate

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This seaweed salad is colourful, scrumptious, and boldly flavored with sesame dressing. If you happen to take pleasure in 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 coloration from veggies.

If you happen to’re comparatively new to seaweed, like I’m, this salad affords an excellent 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 fantastically with the seaweed.

This salad is the right method to incorporate nutritious seaweed into your weight loss program. Seaweed’s dietary advantages range relying on the particular selection, however they’re typically supply of fiber, iodine, potassium and magnesium, amongst others. I attempt to eat 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 means of Amazon, which appears to be bought out in the meanwhile. Search for it in well-stocked grocery shops or Asian supermarkets.

Cabbage

Crisp strands of cabbage supply a lot of colourful texture. I used inexperienced and purple varieties to make this recipe as brilliant as doable for photographs, however both possibility will work effectively at house.

Bell Pepper

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

Cilantro and Inexperienced Onion

These herbs supply extra contemporary taste. If you happen to don’t like cilantro, you’ll be able to 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 selfmade sesame dressing brings all of it collectively! It’s made with tamari (soy sauce), toasted sesame oil, and contemporary lime juice.

How one can Make Seaweed Salad

Seaweed salad is surprisingly simple to make, and also you’ll discover the total recipe beneath. Arame requires a 5-to-10-minute soak in cool water. Throughout that point, you’ll be able to 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 simple?

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

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How one can Serve Seaweed Salad

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

You possibly can 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 may even skip the sesame dressing and serve it instead of the kale in my Construct-Your-Personal Buddha Bowls.

Listed below are just a few extra complementary serving choices:

Leftover cabbage?

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

Listed below are just a few 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 take pleasure in this salad.

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