Contents
Put the frozen seaweed in a saucepan with cold water, bring to a boil and boil for 10-15 minutes. Then rinse again and boil again in fresh water, rinse again and boil again in fresh water. Seaweed cooked in this way is tasty and free from unpleasant odors.
Cook canned seaweed for 5 minutes after boiling. Dried cabbage is soaked in cold water for about 10-12 hours, boiled for 20-30 minutes.
Seaweed soup
Attention! This recipe is especially recommended for use in winter – for vitamin deficiency and to strengthen the immune system!
Soup products
Beef meat – 300 grams
Seaweed – 200 grams dried or 400 grams can canned
Potatoes – 4-5 medium-sized
Carrots – 1 large or 2 small
Onion – 1 head
Sour cream – 1/4 cup
Garlic – 2 cloves
Celery root – 1/2 pc.
Butter – tablespoon
Parsley, dill, black pepper, bay leaf and salt to taste.
How to make seaweed soup
Boil the beef in a 5-liter pot of water, put it out, cool it, cut it and return it back. Saute the onions and carrots, add to the pan to the beef. Peel and finely chop the garlic – add to the soup. Add roots, herbs and seasonings. Cook for another 10 minutes.
If you plan to add dried seaweed to the soup, add it before adding the sautéed onions. If canned, then at the stage of adding seasonings.
Delicious facts
– Seaweed contains a large number of substances useful to the human body – amino acids, vitamins, phosphorus, magnesium and many others.
– Seaweed clears the body from toxins, helps to improve the digestive tract, strengthen immunity, support the functions of the thyroid gland, cleanse the blood.
– Laminaria recommended with atherosclerosis, hypertension, ischemic disease and vitamin deficiency, as well as in oncology.
– The calorie content of natural (without additives and cooking) seaweed is 5,4 kcal / 100 grams. The calorie content of the finished seaweed salad is about 122 kcal / 100 grams.
– Cost dried seaweed: 100 grams of dried seaweed can be purchased for 80 rubles. in Korean food stores (on average in Moscow as of June 2017).
– It is recommended to use dry kelp as salt and sprinkle on ready meals. The taste of the products will change somewhat, but you quickly get used to it.
– With kidney disease, seaweed is not included in the diet. For allergies, furunculosis and acne (acne), the consumption of seaweed should be limited.
– Kelp accumulates substances dissolved in sea water. It is important that seaweed, obtained in areas with good ecology or specially grown on plantations, gets into food.