Seaweed salad

Ease:: Simple
Serves:: 1-2
Prep time:: 30 minutes
Total time:: 30 minutes

This Japanese seaweed salad combines savoury, refreshing, and spicy ingredients and seasonings for an exciting side dish everybody will want to eat.

Ingredients

50g of dried seaweed/sea vegetable salad

1 tbsp awase miso

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp mirin

1 tbsp white roasted sesame seeds

1 tbsp sesame oil

1 tsp rice vinegar

1 tsp yuzu juice

1 red chilli, finely slicedpinch of sea salt

Method

Rehydrate the seaweed: You can use a ready assembled sea vegetable salad, or use a combination of wakame and hijiki seaweed. Simply place in a bowl of water for twenty minutes.

Prepare the dressing: This is as easy as combining the miso, soy sauce, mirin, sesame seeds, sesame oil, rice vinegar, yuzu juice, chilli and salt in a bowl and stirring with a whisk. The mixture should not be too thick and should have a delightful aroma.

Drain the seaweed: Slice into appropriate bite sized pieces if using wakame or other whole seaweed varieties. Place in a bowl and pour over the dressing. Stir, and add a smattering of additional sesame seeds on top and chill before serving.