Japanese or Korean Wakame Salad (Kelp)

Wakame is a sea vegetable, or edible seaweed. It has a subtly sweet flavour and is most often served in soups and salads.

Sea-farmers have grown wakame in Japan since the Nara period.

What you need:

• Pack of wakame seaweed (kelp)
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbps ginger (grated)
• 10 cm radish (cut in long, small 5 cm pieces)
• 10 cm carrot(cut in long, small 5 cm pieces)
• 10 cm leek (cut in long, small 5 cm pieces)
• You can use all kinds of vegetables (like cucumber etc)
• 1 tbsp sesame seeds

How to prepare it:

1. Rince the seaweed in cold water and squeeze well. You have to rince the seasalt from the leaves.
2. Mix the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and olive oil.
3. Toast the sesameseeds.
4. Mix the seaweed with the sauce and sprinkle with the toasted sesameseeds (you also can lightly grind the seeds).
5. Dash with the sauce and ready to serve!