Recipes with Seaweed: Two Fat-Burning Wakame Salads

Fat-Burning Wakame Salad
This salad brings uses wakame to bring out the flavor of other greens and nuts. It is loaded with essential fatty acids that help control weight, lower triglycerides, and prevent inflammation and allergy. It is also the perfect combination to maximize the available lutein and lycopene in uncooked tomato.

1 cup rinsed and soaked wakame
3 cups greens (lettuce, spinach, sprouts, or others you enjoy)
1 clove peeled and pressed garlic
1/2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger (you may substitute pickled ginger)
Optional: Avocado, sesame seeds, pine nuts, walnuts, diced tomato.

Soak the wakame for at least an hour, then drain and break up into bite-sized pieces. Wash and dry greens and tear into bite-sized pieces. Grate ginger and garlic and then
Grate the ginger and garlic. In a small bow, mash the avocado, ginger, garlic and Bragg's together. Break greebs and wakame up into bite size pieces. Toss all ingredients together thoroughly.

Classic Breakfast Kelp
One of the more fascinating sights at a breakfast buffet in Japan is small children ignoring breakfast cereals, doughnuts, and pastries, and loading their plates with kelp. While I don’t know any way to include kelp in a doughnuts recipe, here is a Japanese-American fusion breakfast for egg lovers trying sea vegetables.

4 cups cooked brown or white rice
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup finely chopped dry wakame
2 tablespoons white sesame seeds
1 cup each finely chopped lettuce, Napa cabbage, bok choy, spinach
1 carrot, diced
1 slice onion
4 tablespoons sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
1 clove minced garlic
1/2 cup bean sprouts, 1/2 cup sunflower sprouts, or 1 cup of either bean or sunflower sprouts
4 eggs
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Have 4 cups of brown or white rice ready before preparing this dish. In a 300º F oven, toast walnuts, wakame, and sesame seeds for 5-8 minutes, until they begin to brown. Remove walnuts, wakame, and sesame seeds from oven and set aside. Preheat a large wok, then add sesame oil, ginger and garlic, heating until just fragrant, no more than 2 minutes. Then add carrot and onion slice and cook for 5 minutes. Add greens and heat just until color changes. Add sprouts, toss, and heat. Add rice and toss. Make 4 wells in the mixture and add egg (whole or scrambled). Turn off heat and allow the mixture to stand until the eggs have set. Top with walnuts, wakame, and sesame seeds.