Seaweed Salad Recipe – Cookie and Kate

This seaweed salad is colourful, scrumptious, and boldly flavored with sesame dressing. In case 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 vigorous shade from veggies.

In case you’re comparatively new to seaweed, like I’m, this salad affords an amazing introduction. It requires arame, which has a extra gentle 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 proper option to incorporate nutritious seaweed into your food regimen. Seaweed’s nutritional benefits fluctuate relying on the precise selection, however they’re typically a superb 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 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 via Amazon, which appears to be offered out in the mean time. Search for it in well-stocked grocery shops or Asian supermarkets.

Cabbage

Crisp strands of cabbage provide a lot of colourful texture. I used inexperienced and purple varieties to make this recipe as vibrant as doable for pictures, however both possibility will work properly at dwelling.

Bell Pepper

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

Cilantro and Inexperienced Onion

These herbs provide extra recent taste. In case you don’t like cilantro, you’ll be able to skip it.

Avocado

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

Sesame Dressing

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

Make Seaweed Salad

Seaweed salad is surprisingly straightforward 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 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.

Watch Make Seaweed Salad

Serve Seaweed Salad

This seaweed salad is a enjoyable and nutritious aspect salad. Serve it with Japanese delicacies and past at any time of 12 months.

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 Build-Your-Own Buddha Bowls.

Listed here 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 hold properly within the fridge, wrapped, for as much as one week.

Listed here are a number of methods to make use of the remaining cabbage: 

Please let me understand how 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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