1 sheet of nori (a type of
dried seaweed used to wrap sushi) spread with leftover rice, a smidge of wasabi or English mustard, cucumber matchsticks and avocado.
Not exact matches
would like to know whether the
seaweed could be picked up from the sea or is it a special type?can the
dried chinese
seaweed be
used?
We
use Sauce (which is a brown sweet / salty sauce of ketchupy consistency), Nori (powdered
seaweed), Katsuobushi (shaved flakes of
dried Bonito fish), and a criss - cross of mayonnaise.
If you're new to nori, it's
dried and edible
seaweed — the same kind usually
used for sushi.
To mimic the flavors of maki rolls, I cut up a sheet of nori, which is the
dried seaweed sheet
used to make rolls and tossed the pieces into the salad along with pickled ginger, chopped cucumber, brown rice and arugula.
I often
use seaweed in my faux tuna recipes (I like the
dried seaweed sheets you can get at trader joes and other stores).
Dried seaweed would need to be soaked in hot water, and rinsed well before
use.
You can buy kelp or dulse flakes to sprinkle on food, add
dried kombu to soups and stews, add a side of
seaweed salad when you're at the sushi restaurant, and
use nori wraps as an alternative to bread or grain - based wraps.
I prefer to
use dry beans and cook them myself with a strip of kombu
seaweed.
The carrageenan
used in Dr. Ohhira's Probiotics is extracted
using a multi-step process to avoid any degradation either by boiling the
seaweed in water and freeze -
drying it, or by precipitation with alcohol and then concentrating it by evaporation.
There are all kinds of
dried seaweeds available, find one that best suits your body's needs — and
use sparingly for flavor's sake!
The extremely healthy foods that the Japanese in Japan eat that don't cause much flatulence include: natto (fermented whole soybeans), tofu (soybean curd with 90 % of the fiber removed), edamame (baby whole soybeans with about half of the flatulence - causing raffinose bred out), unsweetened soymilk (fiber removed), green tea, fish, shellfish, brown
seaweeds (wakame, kombu, arame, mozuku, and hijiki), red
seaweeds (nori and ogo), mushrooms (fresh shiitake,
dried shiitake, maitake, reishi, enokitake, buna - shimeji, bunapi - shimeji, hon - shimeji, hatake - shimeji, king oyster, nameko, hiratake, and matsutake), konnyaku slices (zero calories), shirataki noodles (zero calories), sukiyaki (
uses shirataki noodles), brown rice, white rice, wholegrain buckwheat noodles, tomatoes, daikon (giant white turnips), and green vegetables.
The harvested
seaweed is then
dried — often on sheets on the side of the road — and then shipped for
use.