Japanese very quickly caught on in Russia.Exotic, healthy meals but found his admirers and fans.Due to high demand products such as wakame seaweed, pickled ginger, shrimp and a variety of seasonings, can be found in any supermarket.Today we will talk specifically about the algae.
Where to buy the product?
forth off the coast of China and Japan, dark green algae in six months can be delivered to the tables of local residents in their raw form.That's how they retain all the beneficial properties, and taste of the raw product is much higher.However, Russian consumers do not worry about the quality of the delivered product in our stores.Modern technologies allow to transport seaweed wakame vacuum packed.But we recommend to buy dried seaweed.To do this, visit the store Indian spices or a Japanese supermarket.The benefit of such institutions we now lack.
Wakame (dried seaweed): how to cook?
So we bought a whole bundle of valuable product, and now the family for a long time provided an indispensable ingredient for a variety of oriental dishes.Dried seaweed tend greatly expand, so take them quite a bit.Let soak in cold water for 15 minutes will be enough.If we want to eat seaweed salads or serve as a side dish, it is best to boil them a little.To do this, after soaking will be drained, tilt the delicacy in a sieve, then put in boiling water and cook for just 2 minutes.You can then immediately back recline on a sieve and cool under cold running water.Wakame seaweed is also traditionally used in soups and stewed vegetables.To taste the product is a bit like spinach, despite their slippery structure, pleasant crunch.
Benefits exotic products
the first place in the hit parade of useful properties of these algae can put East high content of iodine.We all know how hard the body to cope with the lack of iodine, and prefer to fill the gap with the help of tablets.However, the natural product is much better absorbed.The second place will put a low calorie content.You can recommend a product is useful as an ingredient for a variety of dietary dishes.Also note that it contains a rare substance called fucoxanthin, the ability to burn fat.
further noted that the wakame seaweed have virtually no contraindications.No known disease can not impose a ban on their use.The only thing that can prevent-eat wakame - it is only idiosyncrasy of the body.And finally state that algae contain high amounts of potassium and fiber, and can also prevent the development of atherosclerosis, is a natural anti-cancer agent, enhance immunity, help the heart muscle to work well.
Wakame Seaweed: recipes.Salad with cucumber
If before you have not tried this oriental delicacy, we recommend that you begin to experience the taste combined with the traditional cucumber and with the thought of the incredible benefits.As the ingredients for the salad will need:
- 10 grams of dried seaweed.
- Cucumber - 1 pc.
- Rice vinegar - 4 tablespoons.spoon.
- soy sauce - 1 tbsp.spoon.
- Sol.
- sugar.
- Pickled ginger for decoration.
Japanese supermarket buying a pack of dried seaweed, do not forget about the traditional seasonings, in particular rice vinegar.Well, pickled ginger and soy sauce are sold everywhere.While seaweed wakame soaked, let us cucumber.Armed with a peeler, remove strips of cucumber along the few to become striped.Cut the cucumber and along into two halves.Seeds and pulp for our dishes are not amiss, so scrape the insides with a spoon.The remaining part of the solid and striped cucumber we shall cut into thin slices crosswise.Then sprinkle with shredded cucumber teaspoon salt and leave for 15 minutes prosolitsya.
When seaweed soak, we boil them in boiling water for 2 minutes, then rinse in cold water.On a screen to add the cucumbers and algae thoroughly wring out all of the excess salt and water.In a bowl pour rice vinegar and soy sauce, put all with powdered sugar and stir until it will be completely dissolved.It remains only to add to the fueling algae with cucumber and mix.Decomposition of plates decorate the dish with chopped ginger julienne.If the salad seemed diet, can be further added to the boiled shrimp dish.
