Greetings, my dear readers. Tell me, do you like seaweed? If yes, then the topic of today’s article will be very close to you. I will share with you proven recipes on how to prepare pickled seaweed at home. Believe me, a homemade snack turns out much tastier than a store-bought one. And there are many more benefits.
Benefits and harms
This product is low-calorie, so it is recommended for use by those who are on a weight loss diet. Depending on the cooking method, 100 g of marinated kelp contains a maximum of 122 kcal , 10 g of fat, 1 g of protein and 7 g of carbohydrates.
Benefit
This is a product with a high content of iodine, it is often prescribed for a lack of this substance in the body. Sea kale also contains a lot of calcium, magnesium, iron, sodium, phosphorus, bromine, vitamins A, B9, C, E, D and PP.
If you often introduce kelp into your diet, you can strengthen your immune system and remove waste and toxins . It also stimulates mental activity, has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, and removes harmful cholesterol. Constant consumption of these algae is an excellent prevention of oncology and thyroid diseases. Laminaria will help you lose weight and rejuvenate your body.
Harm
You should avoid eating pickled seaweed if you have kidney disease or serious liver pathologies, since the high salt content can retain fluid in the body. It is also contraindicated in case of iodine intolerance and hyperfunction of the thyroid gland.
Classic recipe for marinated kelp at home
Let's look at how to pickle kelp. You will need :
- fresh or frozen kelp – 1 kg;
- sugar – 5 tbsp. l.;
- salt – 4 tbsp. l.;
- bay leaf – 3 pcs.;
- allspice black – 10 peas;
- cloves - 5 buds;
- coriander – 1 tsp;
- vinegar – 1 tsp.
How to cook in a marinade at home:
- If the kelp was frozen, then it must be thawed.
- Thawed or fresh, rinse well to remove mucus.
- It is recommended to cut large kelp into thin slices.
- Place it in boiling water, and after boiling, cook for 10 minutes.
- After draining the water, rinse with cold water.
- Tie all the spices into a gauze bag.
- Throw it into 1 liter of boiling water along with sugar and salt, cook for 10 minutes (over low heat).
- Dip the kelp into the boiling marinade, after 10 minutes add vinegar.
- Without removing the kelp from the marinade, cool it, leaving it at room temperature.
- Pour into a jar or pan and hide in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Reference! The resulting seaweed is a completely independent dish, which is seasoned with sunflower or olive oil before serving. You can also add it to other dishes, salads.
We invite you to watch a video about preparing pickled seaweed:
How to cook frozen seaweed
The best way to prepare cabbage at home is to marinate cabbage; after the marinade, the seaweed becomes hard, elastic and suitable for making salads.
By adding crab sticks, squid, egg to the seaweed in the marinade, you can make the seafood appetizer even tastier.
All Korean salads - salad with carrots, mushrooms and champignons, classic fish - prepared at home, have almost the same technology. Savory snacks are great additions to holiday and everyday meals in your daily diet.
Serving: 5
60 min
44 kcal per 100 g
Cooking in Korean
Fresh, frozen and even dried kelp are suitable for cooking. The taste will be sharp and piquant.
Required Products:
- kelp – 300 g;
- carrot – 1 pc.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- sesame oil – 1 tsp;
- sunflower oil – 50 ml;
- soy sauce – 50 ml;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- table vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.;
- red and black pepper - to taste.
How to cook:
- If the kelp was frozen, first defrost and rinse it.
- Throw it into boiling water and then boil for 20 minutes.
- Rinse with cold water and drain in a colander.
- Grate the carrots using a Korean carrot grater or just a coarse grater.
- Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
- Fry onions and carrots in a frying pan in sunflower oil for 5 minutes.
- Add boiled kelp to the pan.
- Peel and crush 2 cloves of garlic into the pan with a garlic press.
- Pour soy sauce, sesame oil into the pan, add peppers.
- Stir, cover with a lid and turn off the heat.
- Infuse in a covered frying pan with the heat off for 40 minutes.
- After cooling to room temperature, place the dish in the refrigerator.
Important! Korean marinated kelp is served only cold.
We invite you to watch a video about cooking seaweed in Korean:
Not only seaweed is prepared in Korean, but also a white vegetable. You can learn about recipes for making pickled cabbage with turmeric in Korean here, and you can learn more about the best ways to pickle vegetables in Korean from this material.
Salads with crab sticks
To make frozen seaweed salad, you need the following ingredients:
- carrot;
- cabbage – 300 g;
- crab sticks – 6 pcs;
- grapefruit – ½ piece;
- a bunch of green onions;
- a pinch of salt;
- corn oil – 1 tsp.
Prepare the salad like this:
- Thaw the seafood, rinse and cook. Chop into small pieces.
- Peel the carrots and boil. Finely cut into cubes.
- Rinse the onion under running water and cut into small pieces.
- Cut crab sticks into cubes.
- In a bowl, mix carrots, cabbage, onions, crab sticks. Add salt. Mix.
- Drizzle with corn oil and stir.
The salad can be more piquant if you top it with squeezed grapefruit juice. Garnish it with sesame seeds and a slice of grapefruit.
Diet option
This recipe is suitable for those who are on a weight loss diet or a medical diet prescribed by a doctor, since the marinade does not contain vinegar, which is harmful for diseases of the digestive system, and the amount of spices is also reduced.
Products:
- frozen kelp – 1 kg;
- bay leaf – 2 pcs.;
- black pepper – 4 peas;
- salt – 1 tbsp. l.;
- sugar – 2 tsp.
How to cook:
- Thaw the kelp and wash it in cold water until the mucus is completely washed off.
- Place in 1 liter of boiling water, add salt, sugar, and all spices.
- When the marinade boils again, throw in the seaweed, and after boiling, cook for only 5 minutes.
- Cool and remove the bay leaf and pepper from the marinade.
- Seal in an airtight container and place in the refrigerator.
How to cook next?
Once the kelp is cooked, you can prepare various dishes from it. For example, it is an excellent base for salads and casseroles. It is also added to dumplings. Let's look at some interesting recipes.
Egg salad
Preparing this dish will require chicken eggs (3 pcs.), sunflower oil (2 tbsp), green onions (to taste) and seaweed (300 g). This salad is usually prepared by those who set a goal to lose weight. The dish is prepared quickly: boil the eggs, chop the onion, and add everything to the seaweed. After this, season the salad with oil, salt if necessary and serve.
With grapefruit
This dish is also considered a dietary dish. For a tasty and healthy snack, you need to prepare one carrot, a small bunch of onions, 0.3 kg of freshly frozen seaweed, a little olive oil and sesame seeds, as well as half a grapefruit. The seaweed is boiled and squeezed. The carrots are peeled, boiled, cut into small pieces, and added to the container with the seaweed along with the chopped onion. Mix everything and season with oil. After this, the dish is laid out on plates and decorated with grapefruit, sprinkled with sesame seeds on top.
Casserole
This is a simple recipe that takes very little time to prepare. To do this, you should take half a kilogram of frozen product in briquettes, a couple of chicken eggs, salt, lemon and a little butter. After cooking and removing excess moisture, the seaweed is transferred to a frying pan. Take eggs and beat them. The seaweed is poured over the egg mixture, salted on top and placed in the oven for baking for about 15 minutes.
While the pan is in the oven, melt the butter, peel the lemon and cut it into thin slices. When the time is up, take out the casserole, pour in oil, decorate with lemon slices and serve.
Fish dumplings
To enjoy fish dumplings, you should make sure you have half a kilogram of prepared fillet, two medium-sized onions, two chicken eggs, and 0.3 kg of freshly frozen seaweed. In addition, you will need flour, black pepper, vegetable oil and salt. To achieve a piquant taste, minced meat is prepared by twisting the fish together with boiled seaweed. Add pepper and salt to the mixture and mix everything.
After this, knead the dough by pouring the eggs into the flour, adding butter and a little salted water. After kneading the dough, it is rolled out into a thin layer, cut into molds and dumplings are made, supplying them with minced fish and algae. In general, the technology does not differ from the usual one, only the cooking time is about 15 minutes from the moment of boiling. After the dumplings are ready, take them out and pour oil over them.
Among the mass of various recipes, one can highlight an interesting version of a dietary dish with pickles. Adhering to standard technology, prepare a couple of medium-sized cucumbers, 0.4 kg of seaweed, an onion, 1 carrot, a third of a glass of sunflower oil, some white bread and salt (to taste). The beginning of the process does not differ from the usual technology, in which the seaweed is boiled and drained in a colander. After this, it must be cooled.
Carrots and onions are chopped and fried in oil, achieving a ruddy color for the vegetables. Remove the skin and seeds from the cucumbers. The bread is soaked and excess moisture is squeezed out. After this, all the ingredients of the future dish are ground in a meat grinder twice. Then the resulting mass is fried in a frying pan, salted and pepper if desired.
Pie
Frozen kelp can also be used for baking. For example, it can complement ham and potato pie. To do this, you should prepare 4-5 medium-sized potatoes, 0.2 kg of seaweed, 0.2 kg of fresh ham, 4 eggs and mayonnaise. To enjoy a delicious dish, follow the sequence of steps starting with cooking the seaweed.
When the cabbage is cooked and cooled, chop it finely. The potatoes are peeled and boiled. Chicken eggs are also boiled. After peeling the eggs, they are grated along with the potatoes. Then, first a layer of potatoes is placed on the dish, then a layer of cabbage, then potatoes again, then a layer of ham, and after that a layer of grated boiled eggs. To prevent the layers from crumbling, they are lubricated with mayonnaise. The pie is decorated with chopped herbs.
For the winter
Need such products:
- frozen or fresh kelp – 500 g;
- onions - 2 medium heads or 1 large;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- carrot – 1 pc.;
- bay leaf – 2 pcs.;
- cloves – 2 buds;
- coriander – 0.5 tsp;
- black pepper – 4 peas;
- sugar – 2 tbsp. l.;
- salt – 1 tbsp. l.;
- vinegar - 2 tbsp. l. regular table or 3 tbsp. l. apple
How to cook:
- Thaw frozen kelp.
- Rinse under running water until mucus is completely removed.
- Boil 500 ml of water, throw in the kelp and let it cook for about five minutes.
- Rinse the kelp with cold water.
- Boil 500 ml of new clean water and add washed seaweed, boil for 10 minutes.
- Drain the kelp in a colander and let cool.
- Add all spices to the water, except garlic, as well as sugar and salt. Wait until it boils, and then cook for 5 minutes (over low heat). After this, the marinade should cool.
- Grate the carrots, preferably on a fine grater.
- Cut the onion into half rings.
- Transfer the kelp to a jar and throw in the onions and carrots.
- Peel the garlic, cut into thin slices and add to the jar, stir.
- Be sure to remove the bay leaf from the cooled marinade and pour in the vinegar.
- Pour the marinade into a jar with kelp, store under a nylon lid only in the refrigerator.
Attention! You can eat such kelp after 24 hours, but you can store it in this form for a long time.
Pickled seaweed is not a very common dish. Mostly white vegetables are pickled. On our portal you can find the following recipes for pickled white cabbage:
- instant cooking with beets;
- in a hot marinade;
- with bell pepper or chili;
- in Gurian;
- in Georgian;
- in pieces;
- crispy in a jar;
- spicy - with garlic, red and black pepper;
- with carrots and other vegetables.
Detailed cooking technology
Cooking kelp is a preliminary step in the preparation of many dishes. This is a process that takes a lot of time. To begin with, the product is removed from the briquette and defrosted. As a rule, this takes no more than half an hour.
After this, the seaweed is soaked. Firstly, this is necessary in order to reduce cooking time. Secondly, the cabbage itself will become softer, which will affect the taste of the finished dish. Thirdly, soaking will help to get rid of the unpleasant odor to some extent. After the cabbage is soaked, it must be rinsed with clean water to get rid of mucus.
Then the defrosted product is dipped into a container of clean water and brought to a boil. Soak the kelp for the first time for about 15 minutes. Cook for the first time just until it boils. This will allow you to preserve as many useful components as possible. However, the cooking process does not end there: it will have to be repeated twice, observing the time regime (10-20 minutes each). It is important to use clean and cold water for soaking and cooking all three times.
Each time after cooking, the kelp is placed in a colander. You need to cook on low heat. You can add salt to the product during secondary cooking. If you boil the seaweed at least twice, this will allow you to achieve the best taste of the product. In addition, perfectly cooked cabbage differs from undercooked cabbage: it not only becomes softer, but is also easy to tear with your hands.
It is difficult to say unambiguously how long a product should be cooked, because every housewife has her own opinion on this matter. Often the cooking time is reduced by 10 minutes or more, considering that the duration of the heat treatment destroys the benefits of the finished dish. Some even believe that in order to properly prepare kelp, it is enough to simply rinse it in warm water. However, although this will allow you to retain more useful components, you will not eliminate the smell or dirt in this way, and you will not get rid of the hardness of the product. Secondary treatment will eliminate the remaining mucus and sand.
How to serve?
Kelp prepared according to any of the recipes can be a separate dish. A portion of kelp set aside on a plate is seasoned with olive or sunflower oil before use. It also goes well with porridge, pasta, potatoes, meat and fish dishes. This is a versatile snack. In addition, it can be used as one of the ingredients for salads. Pickled seaweed is a very easy-to-prepare dish that is very healthy, but its positive effect on the body will only appear with regular consumption.
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How to prepare kelp for pickling
You can buy seaweed dried or frozen. To make the snack tasty, the kelp needs to be properly prepared. If you purchased a dried product, rinse the cabbage several times. Then fill the kelp with cool water. The recommended ratio is 1:30. Let's say you have 50 g of dry product, then add 1.5 liters of water. And leave for 10-12 hours.
Frozen kelp should be defrosted at a temperature no higher than 20 degrees for half an hour. After this, you need to sort it out, if necessary, cut large pieces into smaller pieces. And then this product needs to be rinsed from sand several times with cold water.
