Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, wakame & cucumber salad. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Wakame (), Undaria pinnatifida, is a species of edible seaweed, a type of marine algae, and a sea vegetable. It has a subtly sweet, but distinctive and strong flavour and texture. It is most often served in soups and salads.
Wakame & Cucumber Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Wakame & Cucumber Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have wakame & cucumber salad using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Wakame & Cucumber Salad:
- Make ready 1-2 Cucumber *1 large continental cucumber OR 2 smaller ones
- Get 2 tablespoons Dry Wakame
- Get 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Sugar
- Take 3 tablespoons Rice Vinegar
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Soy Sauce
- Get Roasted Sesame Seeds
Here are some simple ideas to get you started: Add it to a stir-fry with soba noodles, fish, mushrooms, daikon and other vegetables. Rehydrate it, and add sesame seeds, chili powder and ginger to create a simple and delicious Japanese seaweed salad. Although not common in Western kitchens, wakame is a very versatile ingredient. Use rehydrated wakame in salads, add it to vegetable soups, or serve it as a side dish to meats and rice dressed with sesame oil and soy sauce.
Instructions to make Wakame & Cucumber Salad:
- Thinly slice Cucumber into a bowl. I always use a vegetable slicer. Add Salt and massage, then rest for a while.
- Soak Dry Wakame in cold water until soft, drain well. Cut to small pieces if large.
- Combine Sugar, Rice Vinegar and Soy Sauce to make dressing. Alter the amount of Sugar and Soy Sauce to suit your taste.
- Squeeze the Cucumber to remove excess salty water, and combine Cucumber, Wakame and Dressing and mix well. If the flavour is too strong, add some water.
- Sprinkle some Toasted Sesame Seeds over and serve.
Use the dry ground powder, soy sauce, spring onions, honey, and sesame seeds to marinate meats before. Drain seaweed, squeeze out excess water, and coarsely chop. Wakame is a member of the brown algae family and is cultivated in warm Pacific waters. This excellent quality wakame is perfect for use in dishes such as Sunomono (Japanese Cucumber Salad) or Aemono or add to soups just before serving. Wakame is a low-calorie, low-fat food which contains fucoxanthin, a marine carotenoid with anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative properties.
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