Is wakame seafood? How to make delicious wakame soup

In recent issues, we have been sharing a delicacy with you, which is about wakame. It is an edible algae plant in the sea. It has a fresh taste and can be well combined with most ingredients. It can be cooked into delicious food such as ribs, fish, eggs, etc., which makes people very appetizing.

Contents of this article

1. Is wakame seafood?

2. How to make delicious wakame soup

3. How long to cook wakame

Is wakame seafood?

In theory, wakame is seafood, but it needs to be analyzed from two aspects. In a broad sense, seafood refers to edible plants and animals produced in the sea. Wakame is edible algae in the sea and is seafood. In a narrow sense, seafood refers to fresh seafood, which is mainly divided into live seafood and frozen seafood. In this sense, wakame does not meet the definition of seafood.

Wakame is a type of algae in the ocean, belonging to the brown algae, about 1 to 2 meters tall. Its leaves have feather-like cracks and are thinner than kelp. Its overall appearance resembles the leaf fans of banana trees and also like a skirt, hence the name Wakame.

Kelp has a high tolerance to water temperatures and is mostly distributed in temperate marine areas. In China, it is mostly produced in coastal areas of Shandong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Liaoning and other places.

How to make delicious wakame soup

Wakame soup is usually better when cooked with spare ribs, fish, eggs, etc. Wakame itself has a fresh taste, and it can be well integrated with most ingredients. Spare ribs, fish, and eggs are all "all-purpose" ingredients. Proper cooking can better preserve the freshness of wakame while not easily losing the characteristics of the ingredients themselves.

When cooking kelp to make soup, it is recommended to control the heat well. If the kelp is cooked for too long, it may become overcooked and lose its original flavor.

It is recommended to soak the kelp in water before making soup. This can effectively filter out impurities such as sand and stones, and at the same time, the kelp can be soaked to make it easier to cook.

How long to cook wakame

2~3 minutes. The leaf margins of wakame are pinnate, and the leaves are thinner than kelp. The shape is like a banana leaf fan, and also like a skirt, hence the name. Wakame is brown, soft and leathery, with a lanceolate outline, a prominent central rib, and a fibrous root-like holdfast.

Kelp grows on rocks 1 to 4 meters below the low tide line. It can be eaten fresh in summer and autumn or dried for later use.

Kelp mainly relies on its leaves to absorb nutrients needed for growth, such as nitrogen, calcium and phosphate, from seawater, and then synthesize and utilize them in the body.

Wakame is a natural treasure trove of trace elements and minerals, containing amino acids, calcium, iodine, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, etc.