Sea Vegetable
Salted Ogonori
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Salted ogonori is the grocery form: packed in salt, rinsed and soaked until it plumps for sunomono. It keeps. Fresh is rarer outside Japan. Rinse well or it is inedibly salty. Fresh ogonori needs the same day.
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Characteristics
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Rinse WellSunomono
Traits
DefaultKeepsNot Fresh DayPlumpsRinse SoakSalt PackSalty Until RinsedYear Round
History
JP
Salt-packed ogonori made the salad seaweed a year-round grocery item.
Salted ogonori reached overseas Japanese shops.
Salted stayed the default; fresh was a market special.