Seaweed Salad Recipe – Cookie and Kate

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

If you happen to’re comparatively new to seaweed, like I’m, this salad gives an important 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 technique to incorporate nutritious seaweed into your weight loss program. Seaweed’s dietary advantages differ relying on the precise selection, however they’re typically an excellent supply of fiber, iodine, potassium and magnesium, amongst others. I attempt to eat all kinds of complete meals, so seaweed is a welcome addition.

Seaweed Salad Components

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 bought out for the time being. 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 vivid as potential for pictures, however both possibility will work effectively at house.

Bell Pepper

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

Cilantro and Inexperienced Onion

These herbs supply extra recent taste. If you happen to don’t like cilantro, you possibly can 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 recent lime juice.

Find out 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 possibly can 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 effectively within the fridge for as much as 4 days.

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Find out how to 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 can even skip the sesame dressing and serve it instead of the kale in my Construct-Your-Personal Buddha Bowls.

Listed below are a number 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 effectively within the fridge, wrapped, for as much as one week.

Listed below are a number 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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