Sea Vegetable Salad

The benefits of eating sea vegetables are immense. They are loaded with vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes and minerals like iodine, vitamin B, vitmain K, folate, magnesium, calcium, iron, and tryptophan. Once ingested they help to regulate blood sugar and carbohydrate metabolism, they bring valuable anti-inflammatory cardiovascular benefits, they play a role in reducing the risk for estrogen-related cancers, plus they help make you look and feel fantastic!

Thankfully, my pantry is currently stocked with sea vegetables.
I use kombu whenever I cook grains, beans, and soups. It add loads of nutrients,especially minerals, and aids in the digestion of your food. And you'll never even notice it was there.. you just pull it out and discard it after cooking.
Dulse granules and strips are also quite versatile, subtle and delicious. The granules can be sprinkled into smoothies, salads, pretty much anything.. and all youll notice is red specks and a maybe a slightly salty flavor. The Dulse strips can be fried in a little oil and eaten on a sandwich.. my classmates and I used to make DLTs all the time w avocado.. dulse, lettuce, tomato & avocado.. yum!
Wakame rehydrates into green strips that are perfect to toss into salads, soups and sandwiches.
Hijiki rehydrates into brown strips and is great served with vegetable stirfrys.

Many sea vegetables can be added to super food snacks like bars and cookies too. Look forward to lots of sea vegetable focused recipes coming soon!

Recently, on a visit to the local Japanese grocery store, Asahi, I picked up this 

GORGEOUS bag of mixed sea vegetables. It was a little pricey, 

$18.99!! but totally worth it. Ill get at least 12 servings from this bag, 

because the seaweed rehydrates 8 to10x its dehydrated size!

Here is a photo of the sea veg, immediately after I covered it in cool, filtered water

And, here is 5 minutes later after it has been completely rehydrated.

I drained it well and added it to a spinach salad for lunch. Delicious!

The sea vegetables that are included in this mix are Wakame, Suginoriaka, Suginoriao, Akanori, Tsunomataaka, and Suginorishiro. Lucky me! I couldn't pass this up.