Salads Today

Author: Nitthyanathan Saravanan
Source: ezinearticles.com

I don’t know about you, but for me Japan resembles hardwork, commitment and technology but I just realized that their food is equally good. As the primary source of food is from the sea, Japanese cuisine is rich with protein. Try the recipe below, I bet you would love it.

Ingredients:

- 450g (1 lb) daikon, peeled and sliced into thin lengths (about 3 cups), soaked in cold water for 10 mins and drained
- Small Japanese cucumbers or pickling cucumbers (gherkins cut into long, thin strips. Stop before reach the seeds (about 2/3 cups)
- 1 small carrot
- 1 small onion
- Sheets of nori lightly toasted, halved and drained
- 3 tea spoons of black sesame seeds

Ingredients for Dressing:

- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 table spoons mirin
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 2 table spoons rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon dashi powder dissolved in 1 table spoon water

Method of preparation:

- To make the dressing, combine all dressing ingredients in a big bowl and set aside.
- To assemble salad, toss the daikons onion slices in a medium bowl, pile the tossed vegetables high on a medium serving plate, pour over the prepared dressing immediately before serving and top with roasted nori and sesame seeds

Remarks:
Nori

A type of seaweed pressed into thin sheets and baked (yaki nori) or seasoned with soy sauce (ajitsuke nori). It is sold in 23 x 17 cm (9 x 7 in) sheets and usually packed in bundles of 10. Ajisuke nori is served as appetizers while yaki nori is served with rice.

Dashi powder

Its the equivalent of the western soup stock powder. It is normally used to make dashi fish stock and as a basic seasoning in many Japanese recipes.

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