Wakame with Prawns and Cucumber in Vinegar Dressing

Name: Wakame with Prawns and Cucumber in Vinegar Dressing (Suno-mono)
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: ½ cucumber; salt; 60 ml/4 tbsp rice vinegar; 15 ml/1 tbsp shoyu; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp caster (superfine) sugar; 2.5 cm/1 in fresh root ginger, peeled and cut into thin strips, to garnish; 10 g/¼ oz dried wakame; 12 medium raw tiger prawns (jumbo shrimp), heads removed but tails intact

Suno-mono

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

This salad-style dish, called Suno-mono, uses Wakame Seaweed, which is not only rich in minerals and B complex vitamins and vitamin C, but also makes your hair look shiny.

Ingredients

10 g/¼ oz dried wakame
12 medium raw tiger prawns (jumbo shrimp), heads removed but

Asia
Japan
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Soak the wakame in a pan or bowl of cold water for 15 minutes until fully open. The wakame expands by three to five times its original size. Drain.
Peel the prawns, including the tails, insert a cocktail stick (toothpick) into the back of eac