This fresh tasting, colorful, and crunchy Japanese seaweed salad recipe goes with any Japanese, Korean, or Hawaiian dish. In Japan, they prepare sea vegetable salad at home and usually serve it with lettuce, cucumbers and other vegetables.
This seaweed salad is definitely not your grandmother’s day glow seaweed salad served at the Japanese restaurant. If you’ve been eating seaweed salad because you thought it was healthy, you are mistaken. That neon green color that many seaweed salads have is not the natural color of seaweed, it’s food coloring. Restaurants that serve this kind of salad also usually buy it in tubs pre-seasoned, which also means it’s probably loaded with corn syrup.
Goma Wakame ごま わかめ Fresh Sea Vegetables Salad (Japanese Seaweed Salad)
Cuisine: Japanese, HawaiianDifficulty: Easy2
servings10
minutesIngredients
- Dressing
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
1 tablespoon soy or Ponzu sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon mirin
1/4 teaspoon or less sea salt
1/2 teaspoon ginger, grated on a microplane
1 tablespoons white sesame seeds, plus more for garnish
1/2 teaspoon A pinch of red pepper flakes
- Salad
2 cups prepared sea vegetables*
1 green onion, finely chopped
1/2 cucumber, peeled and sliced (optional)
Directions
- Prepare or rinse the sea vegetables per the package directions.
- Prepare the dressing by combining all ingredients except for the sea vegetables and green onion into a jar with a lid and shake well.
- Toss the dressing with the sea vegetables, green onion, optional cucumber. Chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before serving.
- Serve with a garnish of white sesame seeds on top.
Notes
- *Where to find Sea vegetables (seaweed or marine algae): If you are experienced then you already know you can forage them during low tide. Dried wakame can be purchased at many grocery stores. Reconstitute it per the instructions. (Soak for 10 minutes in room temperature water and then squeeze the water out.) Slice thinly. Or buy the fresh product from Amazon.
- Wakame (alaria, undaria) is a high-protein, high calcium seaweed, with carotenes, iron and vitamin C.Purchase Sea Tangle Noodle Company Mixed Sea Vegetables as shown in the picture, available on Amazon.Sea vegetables should be enjoyed in small quantities because of their high concentration of iron and iodine as well as their tendency to absorb heavy metals from the water it grows in. While there is variance in the amount of vitamins and minerals that seaweed contain depending on the type and location they are grown, sea vegetables generally have ample amounts of calcium, B-vitamins, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin A. A ½ cup serving will run you anywhere between 15 to 30 calories and you’re looking at a good amount of soluble fiber as well.
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