Name: Seaweed Salad with Sesame Dressing
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon toasted white sesame seeds; 1 firm but ripe avocado, halved, pitted, peeled, and sliced; 1 small cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced; 2 teaspoons sugar; Sea salt; 1 ounce dried green wakame seaweed; 2 teaspoons toasted hulled pumpkin seeds (pepitas); 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil; ½ teaspoon wasabi powder; Juice of 1 lime; 2 teaspoons soy sauce; 1 ounce dried red dulse seaweed; 2 tablespoons rice vinegar; 4 scallions, slivered; 4 red radishes, thinly sliced; 1 small carrot, peeled and sliced paper-thin; A 2-ounce piece of daikon, peeled and thinly sliced; 2 teaspoons grated ginger; 1 teaspoon toasted black sesame seeds

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

One Good Dish

By David Tanis

Published 2013

About

It’s always nice when the food you crave is actually good for you. Seaweed, sometimes called sea vegetable (perhaps to make it sound less like a weed), is a delicious, highly nutritious, edible marine algae. You can check Japanese groceries for more exotic kinds of salt-packed seaweeds, but many supermarkets and health food stores sell user-friendly packages of dried seaweed. This recipe uses two commonly available types, reddish-purple dulse and bright green wakame. Both simply need bathin