Korean Nori Alga salad served with fish

Before we start

Today I decided to cook something slightly different. I had in my kitchen some dried Nori Algas - an ingredient I've never tried before but heard a lot of good things about it. I decided to make it the star of today's lunch.

Algas is great on so many levels - it's very healthy food, easy to produce and... farming Algas don't have any negative impact on the environment! I doubt it could be said about any other kind of food.

In fact, if you have any access to the fresh Algas, you could easily create a mini farm at your home and produce it enough for your own needs. I am considering doing it, but until now I couldn't find any fresh Algas in Argentina to start doing it.

Okay, enough talking - let's start with the cooking.
Just one thing more to clarify - I have never been to South Korea so it's safer to say it's a "Korea-inspired meal", not something traditional.

Nori Algas salad served with fish and rice

Ingredients (3 plates):
🇰🇷 50g of dried Nori Algas
🇰🇷 2 tbsp of soya sauce
🇰🇷 3-4 tbsp of sesame
🇰🇷 1/2 of onion
🇰🇷 3 garlic cloves
🇰🇷 2 tbsp of honey
🇰🇷 2 cups of rice
🇰🇷 6 filets of fish
🇰🇷 1 lemon
🇰🇷 olive oil, herbes de provence, chilli, salt 🇰🇷 Optional: umami

Directions

1️⃣
Prepare the bowl with the alga.
Mix in the mug 125 ml of water and 2 spoons of soya sauce. Add it to the alga and mix everything very well.

2️⃣

Squeeze three cloves of garlic into the bowl with the salad

3️⃣

Chop half of the onion into small cubes and add it to the other ingredients in the bowl. Instead of onion, you can also use a green parts from chive.

4️⃣

Now roast sesame on the dry pan. Watch out to not burn it. Add it to the salad

5️⃣

Add two spoons of honey and a bit of chili (depends on how spicy food you like, I added 1/2 of tsp). If you don't like chili, you can skip that step. If you want, you can add 1/4 tsp of Umami as well. Mix everything very well. Salad is ready.

6️⃣

Boil the water with salt and cook the rice. In the meantime prepare the fish. Squeeze the lemon over your fish filets.

7️⃣

Add herbes de provence. If you don't have it, you can use oregano or thyme instead of herbes.

8️⃣

Prepare aluminium foil. Add a bit of fat on aluminium. I use olive oil, but if you want, you can use butter instead. Put the fish inside and cover it well with aluminium.

9️⃣
Bake fish in the oven for 25 minutes at 190°C. Use that time to discover how interesting K-pop (Korean pop) can be. You can check i.e. that song

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It's ready, serve all together on one plate.
If you will not eat all the salad, you can keep it in the fridge for up to one week.

Bon appetite!
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