Salad is one of the dishes beloved by everyone, from which it is useful to start lunch and dinner, not a single feast is complete without it.
There are many recipes for this dish. Salads can be vegetable, fruit, meat and fish, low-calorie and vitamin-nutritious.
The set of products for them varies depending on the taste preferences of the cook, the national characteristics of the cuisine, the products available, and the desired effect. The usefulness of a dish depends on its components.
One of the most useful foods in salads is kelp, or seaweed.
Sea kale: benefits and harms
Sea kale is a kelp seaweed, the bushes for industrial gathering of which are located in the Japan, Okhotsk, Kara and White Seas.
This plant has a rich content of trace elements, vitamins, organic acids. One of the main beneficial properties of kelp is its high iodine content. Also, seaweed contains bromine, potassium, magnesium, and iron.
The composition of the plant determines its usefulness in many diseases. Regular use of seaweed contributes to:
- strengthening the cardiovascular system and heart muscle;
- prevention of sclerosis and mental retardation in the elderly;
- improve metabolism and normalize weight;
- prevention of colds, strengthening immunity;
- elimination of gynecological diseases;
- improving the condition of the skin, promotes the rejuvenation of the body;
- eliminating joint inflammation and arthrosis.
But kelp is not shown to everyone. With caution, it should be used with:
- problems with the gastrointestinal tract;
- peptic ulcer disease;
- chronic jade;
- allergic manifestations of seaweed;
- hyperthyroidism (an excess of iodine is contraindicated in this case).
Healthy algae in Japan and China have been known since ancient times. Residents of these countries equate kelp with ginseng. In the Far East, they are widely used in medicine and cooking.
In our country, sea kale is recommended by doctors as a useful dietary supplement to improve health and prevent many diseases.
Laminaria has a pungent smell of iodine and a specific taste, which not everyone likes. Therefore, salads with a variety of additives are prepared from it to kill the unpleasant odor and give the dish a pleasant taste.
In cooking, algae are used in fresh, frozen and dried form.
Salad "Far Eastern" with pickles
To prepare a simple seaweed salad, you will need:
- Sea kale - five hundred grams of fresh.
- Carrots - two pieces.
- Salty cucumber - three or four pieces.
- Bulb - one large or two small.
- Sunflower oil - six tablespoons.
- Food salt - to taste.
- Vinegar 6% - two teaspoons.
Rinse the kelp well, then put in a pot of water, put on fire and cook for fifteen minutes. Drain the water. Pour algae with a new portion of water and boil for about fifteen or twenty minutes. Again, drain the water, fill the kelp with a new portion of water and boil a third time.
Remove the algae, cool, cut into strips, pour vinegar.
Thinly chop the cucumbers and carrots with straws, cut the onion into rings or half rings.
Mix vegetables and seaweed, salt to taste, season with vegetable oil.
Healthy and tasty salad "Far Eastern" is ready.
This recipe can be changed: instead of pickles, take fresh ones, season the salad with mayonnaise or dressing with mustard and vegetable oil.
Seaweed Salad with Crab Sticks Recipe
There are many options for Far Eastern salad, it all depends on the additives to the kelp.
In one of the recipes, crab sticks are included in the Far Eastern seaweed salad.
The composition of this dish:
- Seaweed - three hundred grams (pickled) or fresh.
- Egg - four or five pieces.
- Crab sticks - two hundred grams.
- Onions - one large.
- Mayonnaise to taste.
Peel the onion, wash, chop finely.
Boil eggs, cool, peel, cut into cubes.
Dice the crab sticks.
If seaweed is canned, then open a jar.
If you take fresh kelp, then you must first boil it three times (as in the previous recipe), season with vinegar and salt.
Combine seaweed with prepared foods, season with mayonnaise.
Far Eastern salad option: crab sticks or squid
Squids and crab sticks in different versions are included in the Far Eastern salad of seaweed. The recipe involves the following composition:
- Laminaria - 400 grams.
- Crab sticks - 200 grams, or squid (canned for salad).
- Garlic - 2 cloves.
- Eggs - 5 pieces.
- Dill - 1 bunch.
- Tomatoes - 2 pieces.
- Mayonnaise.
Dice tomatoes, eggs, crab sticks (or squid).
Pass the garlic through a press or chop finely.
Wash the dill, chop finely.
If seaweed is canned, then open a jar.
If kelp is fresh, then prepare according to the first recipe.
Mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise, salt to taste.
Salad is ready to be served.
Far East salad recipe (no additives)
The distribution network sells canned food from kelp: salad "Far Eastern".
This dish is easy to cook at home.
This will require products:
- Sea kale - 500 grams fresh or frozen.
- Onions are one thing.
- Sunflower oil - four tablespoons or to taste.
- Salt - one tablespoon.
- Sugar sand - to taste.
- Black pepper bitter and sweet peas.
- Bay leaf - three pieces.
- Acetic essence 9% - one tablespoon.
Pour water into a large pan (about four liters), put on fire, put several peas of allspice and bitter pepper, salt, vinegar essence, bay leaf into the water.
Bring the brine to a boil, lower the kelp into the pan, continue cooking for about fifteen to twenty minutes. After the seaweed is cooked (it becomes soft enough for your taste), drain the water from the pan. Laminaria leave to cool.
Peel the onion, wash under a stream of cold water, cut into thin strips, pour boiling water.
In chilled seaweed, put chopped onions, sugar to taste, season with sunflower oil and ordinary vinegar (you can use apple cider). Mix well. It is advisable to cool the prepared salad before serving.
According to this recipe, the far-Eastern canned salad reminiscent of taste is obtained.
Conclusion
There are many ways in which the Far Eastern salad is prepared. The recipe varies. Very often this is the name of snacks based on the Far Eastern seaweed - kelp.
Of course, you can buy a canned ready-made product in a supermarket, but when cooking at home, you can get your own unique snack for yourself and your loved ones.
The taste of the salad will depend on the products that are added to the seaweed. The choice is up to the hostesses.
Follow your taste preferences, experiment, cook with pleasure for your family and friends.