Green laver
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Green laver (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".), known as aonori (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "Lang".) in Japan, sea cabbage (Script error: No such module "Lang".) or hutai (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in China, and parae (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and kim (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in Korean, is a type of edible green seaweed, including species from the genera Monostroma and Ulva (Ulva prolifera, Ulva pertusa, Ulva intestinalis). It is commercially cultivated in some bay areas in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, such as Ise Bay. It is rich in minerals such as calcium, magnesium, lithium, vitamins, and amino acids such as methionine. It is also called aosa (アオサ, Ulva pertusa) in some places in Japan.[1]
Culinary use
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Japan
It is used in its dried form for Japanese soups, tempura, and material for manufacturing dried nori and tsukudani and rice. It is also used in a powdered form, often blended with Ulva species of Ulvaceae as its production is limited.
It is used commonly for flavouring of some Japanese foods, usually by sprinkling the powder on the hot food, for its aroma:
- Fried noodles (yakisoba or yakiudon)
- Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake)
- Takoyaki (octopus dumpling ball)
- Isobe age
- Isobe mochi
- Shichimi (seven-spice seasoning)
- Japanese potato chips
- Misoshiru
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Raw aonori from Lake Hamana
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Miso soup with raw aonori
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Okonomiyaki with aonori powder
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Yakisoba with aonori powder
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Korea
In Korea, parae is eaten as a namul vegetable. It is also used to make gim (dried laver sheets).
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Parae-gamja-jeon (green laver potato pancake)
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Parae-muchim (seasoned green laver)
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Dried green laver sheets
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Similar species
Green laver shares the name "laver" with Porphyra umbilicalis, a red seaweed, which is harvested from the coasts of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland and used to prepare laverbread.[2] Like "green laver", similar edible seaweeds with indigenous names translated as "laver", are found in many other countries around the world. In Hawaii, "the species Porphyra atropurpurea is considered a great delicacy, called Script error: No such module "Lang".".[2]
See also
References
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