These Sea Veggie Tacos with Avocado, Cilantro, Peanuts, & Asian Sesame Dipping Sauce, are a delicious way to experiment with eating seaweed and other nutrient rich sea vegetables!
It’s Recipe ReDux time again, and this months theme, “Sea What You’ve Been Missing” is an ode to the “more obscure” treasures from the sea, such as little fishies {aka sardines, anchovies, and smelts} and super nutritious sea veggies such as nori, wakame, and kombu.
Being that this is a ReDux recipe, my Sea Veggie Tacos full fill two important requirements…
One, they contain a very respectable dose of nutritious ingredients {sea veggies, napa cabbage, carrots, avocado…}, and two, they are absolutely, positively delicious!
Crisp and crunchy Napa Cabbage ready to be stuffed with sea veggies. Yum!
Isn’t this dried Wakame (a sea veggie) gorgeous?!
Sea Veggie Taco Nutrition
- Wakame is a nutritious sea veggie with a delicate flavor. I used Ohsawa brand. To get 1 cup of rehydrated wakame, use approximately 25 grams dried. To learn more about the health benefits of sea veggies, please read this post.
- Napa cabbage, like all cabbages is a cruciferous veggie which may be protective against cancer, particularly breast, colon, and prostate cancers. It is pale green in color has a delicious mild flavor, and adds a nice dose of crunch to your favorite recipes.
How to make these yummy Sea Veggie Tacos
- Make the Asian Sesame Dipping Sauce
- Wash & prep cabbage leaves (or use any favorite leafy greens) to use a taco shells
- Put out all your fillings in small servings dishes
- Have a Sea Veggie Taco party and let everyone make their own!
Sea Veggie Tacos with Asian Sesame Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce or gluten-free Tamari
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes {or to taste}
- 1 head Napa Cabbage, core chopped off, and separated in to individual leaves
- 1 cup cooked brown rice
- 1 cup {re-hydrated} wakame or other sea veggie
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 cup chopped avocado
- 3/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1/2 cup chopped peanuts
Instructions
- For the Dipping Sauce: Combine lime juice, soy/gluten-free tamari,water, sugar, and crushed red peper flakes. Stir well to combine and set aside.
- For the Taco Fillings: Place "toppings" {rice, sea veggies, shredded carrots, chopped avocado, chopped cilantro, and chopped peanuts} in individual serving bowls.
- To assemble tacos: Place 1 leaf of napa cabbage on a plate. Top with ~ 1 teaspoon each rice, sea veggies, carrots, avocado, cilantro, and peanuts. Spoon ~ 1 tablespoon dipping sauce on top. Enjoy taco style!
Nutrition
Asian Seame Dipping Sauce
Sea Veggie Taco
For more little fishy and sea veggie inspiration, please be sure and check out all the other delicious Recipe ReDux creations linked below.
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Do you eat sea veggies? What about "little fishies"? What's the craziest taco combination you've ever eaten???
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