A Favorite Lunch

I love this recipe from La Dolce Vegan for Seaweed Soup. I never would have tried it but I was doing a year-long challenge to cook through the cookbook. This is one of those that I have to eat on my own; my hubby would never eat seaweed AND tofu! The package of roasted seaweed has about ten sheets in it and the recipe only uses one so it was time to make this soup again as the package has been in my pantry awhile. (Still working on clearing it out.)

Ingredients for Seaweed Gomasio from La Dolce Vegan. 

I buy roasted sesame seeds so I can skip the step of browning the seeds. This is a great garnish for the Seaweed Soup.

I use an old sesame seed jar to hold my Seaweed Gomasio.

One of my favorite noodles. I really like buckwheat soba noodles but I was out of them. I order them from Eden Organic. The only soba noodles I can find in the stores have eggs in them.

Seaweed Soup 

I add cubed tofu to mine. It is garnished with a splash of lime juice, green onions and gomasio. This recipe makes 2 servings but I seem to eat it all!

Seaweed Soup~pg. 104

Vegan Culinary Institute La Dolce Vegan! Challenge:

I would always pass by this recipe when browsing through my cookbook but it pays to try new things! This is absolutely delicious. I don't like the smell of the dried seaweed but after you simmer it in the broth it is wonderful. The lime juice really brings out the flavor of everything; I even added extra lime juice on my serving (well, I ate 3/4 of the pot!)

I had to take a picture of the dried seaweed strips; they looked so pretty.

After I took a photo I used scissors to snip the noodles into pieces to make it easier to eat. Now I know what to do with the remaining sheets of nori seaweed I have; make more soup! It's great with some cubed tofu added to it also.