Mochi the dog is the poster dog for celebrating Variety in the diet. Don’t get me wrong, she can be discriminating…she won’t eat just anything – it at least has to be animate. I say animate rather than ‘considered food’ because she did at some point in her puppyhood enjoy dirt clods and what dog doesn’t like to nibble on some grass every now and then. Plus if she were allowed to label her world – the kitty’s litterbox would have “Snack Jar” written on it.
No, no…this post isn’t about that! Sorry I was just rambling about variety and…well, anyway back on track…Mochi loves vegetables of all sorts. Raw no less. Carrots, broccoli, the cores from cabbage & lettuce, apples (peeled without cores please), cauliflower, asparagus, kale stems…and one big surprise – sheets of nori! It’s a hoot to watch her eat the sheet, ripping off pieces as she stands on a corner.
Now, I’ve always had a fondness for salty crispy snacks – my biggest vice was potato chips, oh and kettle corn which is more the salty sweet krispy thing but anyway. A number of holistic practitioners out there (Bernard Jensen, Colleen Huber among many others) link food cravings to specific nutritional deficiences. So crispy/salty/oily = minerals. Rather than taking Mochi’s lead with the dirt clods I thought mineral rich seaweed might be the ticket. My SIL’s mother came to visit and gave us some packs of Korean seaweed sheets – fried and salted! Yum! These were great but I was drinking gallons of water with all the salt. I figured I could make my own less salty less oily version.
Here’s what I did to make a quick healthy crispy snack…
Take 1 piece of nori and dribble 1/8-1/4 teaspoon sesame oil on it. Spread the sesame oil with your hand to cover the whole sheet. Sprinkle a pinch of good quality fine sea salt on the nori. Now put in a toaster oven for 30 seconds to a minute to crisp it up. You can cut up or tear the sheet into bite size pieces. With this, the coolest toaster oven on earth, I found 1 minute on 250 was perfect.
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I wrote about that toaster oven as well!
This snack sounds soo good. and much better for us than its packaged cousin.
are you getting your nori anyplace special?
Hi Shuna,
Don’t you just love that toaster oven! Makes the best toast – I never knew what toast was…
I usually buy the big economy packs of nori at Koreana the big Korean grocery and housewares store – 2370 Telegraph Ave, Oakland. Koreana also has my next favorite snack – little fried anchovies. Otherwise Berkeley Bowl has a nice selection of nori but only small packs.
hello~! just found your blog. have you had the korean roasted seaweed? it’s basically what your recipe is of except it come cut up in a cute package and you don’t have to get your hands dirty. 🙂