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Seaweed is a super healthy addition to your diet, full of vitamins A, B, B12, C, E, K, iodine and iron. Whether vegetariain or special diet, you don’t have to be a chef to incorporate kelp seaweed into your cooking.

Dulse, channelwrack, sea grass, sea lettuce, atlantic kelp and sugar kelp can all be easily used when cooking everyday meals.

Cooking with seaveg seaweed is just like cooking with anything else- boil, steam, bake or fry. The easiest way and the quickest is just to pour boiling water over your seaweed and leave for 1-2 mins. Then, pour away the water and it’s ready to eat. Dried seaweeds need only to be rehydrated in fresh cold water for 15 minutes, rinsed then cooked as normal. Spice it up with seasonings that complement the seaveg as you create your own recipes. Asian seasonings are just the ticket.

Seaweed Recipes

If you have a seaweed recipe you would like to share, please email it and it will be posted here with your name attached.

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Slow Roasted Pork Belly with bute seaweed salad
by Master Chef George McIvor

Try this method to cook roasted Gloucestershire old spot pork belly with smoked Paprika, Bute seaweed salad and bramley apple sauce

Ingredients

1kg Pork belly

1 tbsp Salt

1 tbsp Smoked paprika

1 tbsp Demerera sugar

100g Bute Sea lettuce blanched 1 minute and refreshed

4tbsp Hazelnut oil

2 tbsp White wine vinegar

1 tsp Dijon mustard

1 tsp Toasted sesame seeds

Drizzle honey

Black pepper

2 Bramley apples (peeled cored and chopped)

2 tbsp Sugar

1 Lemon juiced

75 mls Hazelnut oil

Method

1. Lay the pork belly flat fat side up, gently score the fat rub with the salt, sugar and paprika

2. Lay on a cooling wire and place in a medium hot oven and roast for approx 1.5 hours till tender.

3. Stew the apples with the sugar and lemon juice till cooked through, pass through fine sieve and whisk in the oil.

4. Whisk oil, vinegar, honey, mustard together, season with lots of pepper and toss the seaweed and sesame seeds together.

To serve

Place a pile of the seaweed salad on plate, carve 2 slices of pork and place against the salad, spoon apple sauce around and drizzle with pan juices. Enjoy!…………………….George.

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Dulse and Veggie Soup

Ingredients

50g Dulse seaweed

1kg vegetables (potato, onion,)

50g channelwrack kelp seaweed/seaveg

1.5 litres water

Salt and pepper

Method

1. Prepare vegetables, and cut into fine dice

2. Add vegetables and seasoning to water, bring to boiling point

3. Simmer until vegetables are tender, about 1 hour. Allow to cool slightly

4. Chop the Dulse and Channelwrack then add to broth, reheat, check for seasoning, add seasoning if necessary

Note: Vegetables may be cut roughly and soup sieved or liquidised .

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Egg and Seaweed Flan

Ingredients

200g plain flour

half level teaspoonful salt

Cold water (75-100ml approx)

100g margarine

2 level teaspoonfuls cornflour

1 egg beaten

125ml milk

50-60g cheese

50g sea lettuce

Seasoning

Method

1. Rub margarine into flour until breadcrumbs. Add salt

2. Add cold water and mix to a very stiff consistency. Work till smooth

3. Rest. Roll out and use as required

4. Line flan ring or deep pie plate with pastry. Bake for 10 minutes at 200 degrees C gas mark 6

5. Shred sea lettuce finely

6. Mix cornflour and beaten egg

7. Add milk, sea lettuce and cheese. Season

8. Pour into baked flan case, sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 20 minutes.

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Vegetable Stew

Ingredients

Carrot, potato, onion, turnip, broad kelp or sugar kelp seaveg, butter, stock (vegetable), Seasoning, chopped parsley, tomato

Method

1. Prepare vegetables and kelp seaweed, 100g of kelp, soak the kelp for 10 min befor using, slice place in a pan or casserole in layers with butter and seasoning

2. Add water or stock to come about halfway up vegetables. Cook gently till almost tender, about 1 hour

3. Add sliced tomato and cook for another 5-10 minutes

4. Sprinkle with chopped channelwrack

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