Chuka salad with nut sauce

Do you like exotic? Then this vitamin bomb from Japan is for you! Look. Chuka seaweed (or wakame) is quite a popular ingredient in many dishes of traditional Japanese cuisine. The Japanese are famous for their careful approach to food selection, in their daily diet only useful and necessary products, including chuka seaweed. Wakame can be bought frozen or pickled, they are a self-sufficient product by themselves, it is enough just to pour the dressing. I like chuka salad in combination with nut sauce, but since it's quite problematic to find it, we'll cook it ourselves
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 16 % 5 g
Fats 44 % 14 g
Carbohydrates 41 % 13 g
168 kcal
GI: 92 / 0 / 8

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 15 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Here are the necessary ingredients for chuka salad. If the algae is frozen, they need to be thawed beforehand, I took pickled ones. Chuka salad is essentially seaweed, sprinkled with dressing and sprinkled with sesame seeds. But we'll do it in order!

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Sesame fry a little

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    That's how beautiful it turned out

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    And now add all the other ingredients to the wakama: sesame oil, soy sauce, lemon juice, water, starch, sprinkle with sesame seeds and mix everything. That's it - our chuka salad is ready! I repeat, it is already possible to eat it in this form. But it will be even tastier in combination with nut sauce.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    And for it we will need: peanuts, sesame, sesame oil, sugar, a little mustard, water, lemon juice and soy sauce (for some reason I forgot to take a picture of it). If desired, you can add vegetable oil - I added it, but it turned out to be too fat for my taste, next time I will do without it

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Peanuts with sesame fry

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Grind in a blender for 2-3 minutes

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Here's what happened

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    And now add all the other ingredients. Wipe for a few more minutes until a homogeneous consistency

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    I got a pretty thick sauce, I like it in this version. This is for an amateur - the taste and consistency can be varied, if you want a more liquid one - add some water, try and add the ingredients to your taste!

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    That's how beautiful he is!

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    And now we put our chuka in a plate and serve it with nut sauce and lemon!

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Fortified! Enjoy your meal!

And now some information from the Internet for reference. The composition of wakame algae speaks for itself: vitamins C and E, a large amount of iodine and calcium. The main benefit for the human body is the unique vitamin and mineral composition of chuka algae of natural origin. They are part of some traditional Japanese medicine. Doctors also recommend eating chuka algae to people who suffer from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Their caloric content is quite low and nutritionists believe that seaweed should definitely be included in the daily diet of people who follow the principles of a healthy and balanced diet. The useful composition and low caloric content of chuka algae allow us to attribute this product to dietary nutrition.
Try it - it's very tasty and healthy! The truth is true!

The caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Raw peanuts with shells - 564   kcal/100g
  • Raw peanuts without shells - 568   kcal/100g
  • Boiled peanuts - 376   kcal/100g
  • Roasted peanuts with shell - 582   kcal/100g
  • Roasted and salted peanuts - 585   kcal/100g
  • Peanuts nuts - 568   kcal/100g
  • Mustard canteen - 417   kcal/100g
  • Mustard - 417   kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Starch - 320   kcal/100g
  • Algae - 25   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Dried whole sesame seeds - 563   kcal/100g
  • Shelled sesame seed - 582   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Sesame oil - 899   kcal/100g

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