About Organic Dried Kombu Seaweed
Porto-Muinos love the sea and seaweed life and their Spanish seaweed from the Galician sea is fabulous. Their products have the best health food conscious gourmets in mind. Seaweeds are marine biological products subjected to uncomplicated treatments, which assures that their unique properties are preserved. These sea vegetables are versatile and have their own personality. They coexist with traditional cuisine, while offering new possibilities to modern quality cuisine, such as new flavours, colours and textures.
Kombu or Laminaria ochroleuca can be used by itself and its broth is great to use for boiling rice or adding to soups. Kombu can also be used to add flavour and to thicken sauces as well as being eaten by itself.
TASTE: Salted and slightly smoked flavour.
TEXTURE: Fleshy and slightly cartilaginous.
PROPERTIES: Kombu is sugar free and has a high content in fibre, vitamin B9 (folic acid), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Iron (Fe) and Iodine (I). It has a low content of fat and it is a source of Phosphorus (P) and Zinc (Zn).
USE IN COOKING
Toasted: Baking and crushing in a mortar as condiment.
Boiling: As garnish or layer in fish or meat dishes. As ingredient in preparation of stews, rice, vegetable soups and soups. It has a thickening capacity, which is very useful for elaboration of sauces. The broth from boiling is excellent in soups, clear soups or with rice.
PREPARATION
To Hydrate: Submerge in water with a little salt for 8 - 10 minutes. When hydrated, it increases 4 times its weight from dried.
Cooking: Cook for 35 - 40 minutes.
Directions for use : PREPARATION
To Hydrate: Submerge in water with a little salt for 8 - 10 minutes. When hydrated, it increases 4 times its weight from dried.
Cooking: Cook for 35 - 40 minutes.
Nutritional Information : Kombu is sugar free and has a high content in fibre, vitamin B9 (folic acid), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Iron (Fe) and Iodine (I). It has a low content of fat and it is a source of Phosphorus (P) and Zinc (Zn).
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