Arame Salad
Japanese Arame Salad is a tasty way to incorporate the nutrition power of seaweed into your diet. Using fresh vegetables, arame seaweed and topped with a delicious lemon, garlic and sesame oil dressing, this salad will not disappoint!
Ingredients
For the salad:
- 1 small shallot
- 1 large organic cucumber
- ½ red pepper julienne
- 1 ½ TSP arame seaweed
For the dressing:
- 1 clove garlic pressed
- 2 TBSP. lemon juice
- 2 TSP. toasted sesame oil
- sea salt to taste
Instructions
- Soak the arame in cold water and let it sit for 15 min. Drain and rinse.
- Thinly slice the cucumbers. Transfer the slices to a serving bowl and add the julienned pepper in the serving bowl.
- Stir all of the remaining ingredients in the serving bowl and mix with your hands, until well incorporated.
- For the dressing combine all ingredients and mix well. Pour over finished salad the desired quantity.
Notes
Recipe credit: ``Cooking with Seaweed`` by Julie Hatfield