Wakame Salad

Recipe by Libby, as taken to the 2009 Picnic in the Park

This is a seaweed salad with a light fresh taste. You can mix in vegetables of your choice, but make your salad look interesting by using contrasting colours to the shredded wakame.

Salad
½ cup dried fueru wakame* seaweed soaked 5–10 minutes then drained and spun-dried immediately
1 small carrot, julienned
A 50mm section of white radish, julienned
1 cup of fresh enoki mushrooms cut in half
½ a red onion, finely sliced
1 cup of bean shoots with daggy tails removed

Dressing
½ cup of tamari
¼ cup of light sesame oil (not roasted)
1 tablespoon of grated ginger

Mix all dressing ingredients in a screw-top jar.

 Arrange salad on a flat plate. Mix some of the vegetables through the wakame and place the rest on top.

Before serving, drizzle just enough dressing over the top to work its way through the stack.

 *dried fueru wakame can be purchased at some Asian supermarkets or online at Living Appartments http://www.livingapartment.com.au/Products/Food-Supplements-Health-Care

At Food on the Move wholesale shop, Hornsby http://www.foodonthemove.com.au/html/contact_us.html

This is a link to a Google search that contains other Australian supplers
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&cr=countryAU&client=safari&rls=en&q=fueru+wakame&start=0&sa=N