The Tastiest Way to Eat Seaweed
I can't believe I forgot about seaweed salad. I don't know what I was thinking! I haven't made it in eight years or something, but I used to make it all the time. It's so delicious and ridiculously simple.
Ingredients:
1 bag of dried seaweed salad
1 lemon
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp water
Preparation:
1. Start with a bag of dried seaweed salad from Goldmine Foods or your local Japanese market. It comes in a little bag and looks different than regular seaweed: it’s colorful, with bits of red, dark green, and a white mossy color. The ingredients are wakame, green nori, kombu, agar agar, and akamodoki (red seaweed).
2. Put that in a bowl - maybe half a cup dried. I just ate two bags of it though, so go ahead and put a whole cup in your bowl if you have enough.
3. Then, squeeze the juice of one lemon on it and add a little olive oil and a tiny bit of water. Let it marinate for a little while, and eat up!
It’s delicious just like that or you can add avocado if you’re feeling wild and crazy. Either way, it's the quickest, easiest, most delicious, yummy salad ever. I ate it as a snack, but it could be part of any meal.
Also try this macrobiotic Summer's End Chopped Salad!
What’s your favorite way to eat seaweed?
Share your recipes in the comments!
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Hi Monique,
This is often the experience of some, and the perception of many.
Bear in mind there are around 10,000 species of seaweed in the world, and around 630 just around the coast where I am based here in the United Kingdom.
This is a really diverse group, with lots of different flavours.
Some, such as kombu and dulse, can be strong tastes that you become accustomed to, whereas others such as sea lettuce (ulva) is quite mild and flavoursome. The way you use them also impacts their flavours and interaction with other foods.
We work with companies such as Seagreens, which harvests it organic, kosher certified seaweeds in the Grade A Pristine waters of the Scottish Outer Hebrides. Seagreens has developed its products, which are low temperature dried and milled, to be easy and convenient to incorporate into foods so you get the immense nutrition, and it works well for flavour. Seagreens has been used in baked goods, sauces, soups, ready meals, cheeses, sausages, and a range of other foods.
The range of Seagreens products for you to use at home is available in the USA via www.seagreensonline.com
Another company, based here in the UK, is Sea Spice, who have a range of seaweeds that are used for flavourings and seasonings. These are developed more for flavour than nutrition specifically as you only need a small amount to have a really good impact on the flavour of your foods: www.seaspice.co.uk
I hope this is helpful, and please do feel free to ask more about seaweed.
Best regards,
Dr Craig Rose -
Ok so I have a major issue with seaweed, it is TOO FISHY and Salty for me....am I buying the wrong kind or brand? I would love to eat it for all the nutrients it provides but I just can't seem to find something that is 'tame' and blends in like spinach...any suggestions on that? -
This really sounds great, and so good to see a really doable seaweed recipe.
The Seaweed Health Foundation would love to submit some recipes if we could and anyone is interested?
To explain, the Seaweed Health Foundation is an independent and not-for-profit forum for research, and to raise awareness of the benefits of human food quality seaweed for food and health.
We are based in England and Scotland, and have members mainly here, and also some in North America, and love seaweed a lot...
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This recipe reminds me of a ready-to-eat seaweed salad that my local Wegman's grocery store offers. I absolutely love it! -
Oh this looks good, thanks for sharing! I have had some trouble finding recipes with seaweed that I like. The only one I like so far is an adzuki bean salad recipe I found on the Whole Foods website. It has arame and is delicious.
@nicole marie story, East End Food Coop in Pittsburgh has some seaweed, although I've never seen seaweed salad. There are also Asian grocery stores in the Strip and Monroeville. -
I love your ideas, food articles and recipes, Alicia, and even though I've never tried seaweed in salad or anything else, I like the info. I may even try it, Miss Silverstone! Have a beautiful day, xx. -
I seriously do not believe that Pittsburgh is host to a gorgeous Japanese store. But, perhaps Whole Foods can help me out? Such a pretty recipe that you've offered! I always feel uncomfortable ordering from the local Sushi joint. They are, indeed, high class; but I want more than the teensy weensy portions that they offer... and I want control over the ingredients! Oh! I am so happy that you've reminded me of a gorgeous culinary delight. Thank you, Alicia! Your blog is lovely! x x x -
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Oh this sounds delicious! I have only eaten seaweed in strips that have been dried and they make a wonderful snack.I am looking forward to making this. Seaweed is so awesome for you and that is why we put it in our organic products that we sell. Thanks for sharing this tasty looking recipe!!
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