Recipe: Yummy Wakame seaweed salad

Wakame seaweed salad. Drain, rinse then squeeze out excess water. Stir together vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, pepper flakes, ginger, and garlic in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Add the seaweed, scallions, carrots, and cilantro, tossing to combine well.

You can use a ready assembled sea vegetable salad, or use a combination of wakame and hijiki seaweed. Simply place in a bowl of water for twenty minutes. While the seaweed is soaking, prepare the dressing. You can cook Wakame seaweed salad using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Wakame seaweed salad

1. Prepare 20 grams of dried wakame seaweed.
2. Prepare 2 tbsp of rice vinegar.
3. It's 3 tbsp of light soy sauce.
4. Prepare 1 tbsp of sesame oil.
5. Prepare 1 1/4 tbsp of sugar.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of grated ginger (2-3cm).
7. It's 2 clove of grated garlic.
8. Prepare 2 tsp of sesame seeds.
9. It's 1 of packet Dashi (optional, depends on how fishy your seaweed is).
10. Prepare 1 tsp of starch.
11. You need 1 tbsp of cold water.

Drain, then squeeze out excess water. This recipe is inspired by 'Chuka Wakame' a very well known Japanese seaweed salad. The seaweed I used for this recipe is harvested locally on Serangan Islan. Trim away any rough stems, then coarsely chop the wakame.

Wakame seaweed salad step by step

1. Properly rinse seaweed several times, dunk it in boiling water for a few seconds and rinse again..
2. Grate garlic and ginger and mix all ingredients for dressing (use mortar for a better blend).
3. Pour dressing over seaweed in a pot and simmer on gentle heat for one minute.
4. Depending on used seaweed, add sugar / vinegar / soy sauce to taste. For wakame, quantities provided here should be enough, but when I used another, thicker spaghetti-like seaweed, I needed to add 1 tbsp of each and a packet of Dashi (japanese fish stock with glutamane) to get the taste right.
5. To thicken sauce, dissolve one teaspoon starch in one tablespoon of COLD water and add to boiling dish. Immediately take off the heat, whisk thoroughly and bring to one more quick boil. Keep whisking during this procedure..
6. Let cool down to room temperature, place in a jar and refrigerate. For better taste let soak for several days.
7. Garnish with sesame seeds and sesame oil and serve at room temperature..

Drain the cucumber slices and pat dry. This seaweed salad recipe is a healthy Japanese dish. It is sustainable and loaded with nutrients like fiber, vitamins and minerals like iron and magnesium. Amongst the most popular edible types of seaweeds are Wakame and Kombu, (a member of the kelp family, a key ingredient for making dashi soup). Also, Nori, Hijiki (a brown seaweed that is often cooked in stir-fries or served with fish).