Sea Vegetable
Gracilaria Ogonori
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Gracilaria ogonori is the red seaweed behind Japanese ogonori salads: crunchy, slightly mucilaginous, the species used for that sunomono. This leaf is the plant. Salted and fresh are forms. It is also an agar source in industry, but here it is the salad weed.
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Characteristics
Preparations
Rinse SoakVinegar Salad
Traits
CrunchGracilariaJapaneseLatinMucilageNot Only AgarSalad CrunchSunomono
History
JP
Gracilaria was eaten as ogonori in Japanese sunomono.
Species labels appeared on salted ogonori packs.