Soak some dried seaweed in water till it's tender. Drain and mix with sliced cucumbers and carrots for crunch. Prepare a ...

The final installment will feature a salad that uses a “dried food of the sea,” wakame seaweed. In Japan, a nation surrounded by the sea, seaweed has been part of the diet since ancient times.

Seaweed is packed with essential vitamins ... an appetizer or as an addition to a full-course Japanese meal. 1. Place dried wakame in water and leave for about 10 minutes. Drain the water and ...

Wakame — which is commonly included in miso soup, and is the main ingredient in Japanese seaweed salad — is ... Also sold ...

Salted cucumbers, rehydrated wakame seaweed, and plump shrimp are tossed with a refreshing rice vinegar, mirin, and sesame oil dressing. Serve this cucumber salad as a first course or side dish ...

Unless gathered absolutely fresh, seaweed tends to be sold dried. It is available fresh from May to June. Carrageen, or Irish moss, is used as a vegetarian gelling agent in some processed foods.

Seaweed farmers in the wildfire-stricken city of Ofunato in northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture have begun harvesting cultivated wakame for the first time this season. Offloading of the local ...