Recipe: Yummy Hijiki- Japanese seaweed dish

Hijiki- Japanese seaweed dish.

You can cook Hijiki- Japanese seaweed dish using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hijiki- Japanese seaweed dish

1. You need 1 cup of dry hijiki seaweed (available at Asian market or online).
2. It's 1/2 of konnyaku (can use the whole piece).
3. You need 1/2 of medium size carrot.
4. You need 1/2-1 of lotus roots.
5. Prepare 2-3 of sataumaage (fried Japanese fish cake) or age(fried tofu).
6. You need 4 tablespoons of soy sauce.

Hijiki- Japanese seaweed dish step by step

1. Soak hijiki in 2-3 times water. After 15 minutes, pick them by hand or a tong or a strainer to a strainer with paper towel. (there may be some sand or small rocks mixed in so don’t dump in another ball). Keep the soaking water to use it for cooking water. This water has a lot of hijiki umami..
2. Chop carrot, lotus roots, kinnyaku, satsumaage in the same small size..
3. Put a spoonful of vegetable oil and start frying chopped carrots and lotus roots. After 5 minutes, add konnyaku and sataumaage and cook another 5 minutes. Then add hijiki and cook for 5 minutes. See age(fried tofu) picture- found at Asian market..
4. Add the saves hijiki soaking water 3 cups and add soy sauce and cook for 15-20 minutes at low heat Taste it and add more soy sauce if preferred..