Sea Vegetables, Wakame, Pacific
$3.00 / oz (~$6/cup)
Soak 5 minutes for a quick seaweed salad
COMMON NAME: wakame
BOTANICAL NAME: Undaria pinnatifida
Pacific wakame is the tender, subtly sweet seaweed in classic seaweed salad and miso soup. Toss it straight into simmering soup, or soak it in water for a few minutes, drain, squeeze and add it to salads. It swells to many times its dried size, so a little goes a long way.
For a simple seaweed salad, dress soaked wakame with toasted sesame oil, rice vinegar, tamari and sesame seeds.
Keep it sealed in a cool, dark place.




