Lee’s Seaweed & Sesame Salad

Seaweed and Sesame Salad

Considered one of the healthiest foods on the planet, seaweed, a fibre-rich sea vegetable, is a member of the algae family and comes in a trio of autumnal colour: red, brown and green. Sea vegetables may not usually rank high on your Grocery-shopping list, but they’re a fantastic source of vitamins and also help to alkalise the body. Pick up some seaweed from your local healthfood store or Asian grocer and serve this beautiful salad on its own or alongside fish.

Serves: 4

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Seaweed and Sesame Salad

By: Lee Holmes

Pick up some seaweed from your local healthfood store or Asian grocer and serve this beautiful salad on its own or alongside fish.


Servings

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 25g dried wakame seaweed
  • 60mL apple-cider vinegar
  • 60mL tamari
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil

  • 6 drops stevia liquid
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 2 tbsp coriander, leaves only, chopped
  • 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds, to serve

Method


  • Place seaweed in small bowl and cover with water. Soak for 5 mins, then drain and rinse under running water, squeezing out excess water.
  • In medium bowl, mix remaining ingredients except sesame seeds, and toss to combine well. Add seaweed.
  • Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and serve.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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