Japanese Salad Junior

There have been a few Japanese salads... I think this is the fourth generation.  If you like Asian flavours, i.e. sushi, you will dig this.  But no rice! So nice.

Ingredients: 
1 large tin tuna
1 Tbs toasted sesame oil,
1/2-1 cup cider vinegar
2-4/ Tbs shoyu (reduced salt soy sacue)
6-8 sheets of nori (seaweed paper, can be obtained from Asian vegetable shop)
4-5 little tomatoes
1 Tbs mayo (either good quality eggy stuff, no sugar, or make your own, recipe to come)
Truck loads of Greens (1 large bunch of parsley, you know i'm crazy about it, or baby spinach, mesculin, coriander, yup any greens)
Roasted sunflower seeds

Method Man: 
Put it all in a bowl.
Okay no. Yes actually, put it all in the bowl.
Drain and biff in your tuna, splash on the cider vinegar - do this to taste, start with 1/4 cup and increase, splash on the shoyu, you don't need much, drizzle on your sesame oil - to taste.  Chop up and throw in the greens. Diced toms, in they go.  Whack in a big ole spoon of mayo.  Rip the nori sheets in half again and again til they are little squares, throw these in. Add your roasted sunflower seeds.  Stir it all.
Dude that's it!
Taste it... it's good.

Optionals:
Of course other salady things can be added to this, but that's your basics.
If you want to get fancy with your dressing, and like the taste of wasabi, put your sesame oil, shoyu, cider vinegar in a jar, and add in some wasabi, how much is up to you.  Put the lid on and shake shake shake, then pour over your salad.  Wasabi!

How high maintenance is it? 1.5/10
If you consider tearing up nori a difficult task, I feel for you son.

Is it worth it?
Definitely.  You won't look back.





Nutritional Benefits?

Nori

Nori, or seaweed sheets, are sheets of pressed, roasted seaweed.  Seaweed, being from the sea, has a really high and diverse mineral content.  In fact did you know that all 84 minerals found in the body (about 84) are also found in the sea.  Evolved from fish much?
Nori is high in iodine, a mineral that is not found in our volcanic soils in NZ, that is required for healthy thyroid function.  It is also contains quite good levels of iron, vitamins A and C, and chlorophyll, which is cleansing.
Nori, all seaweed, is also really really high in fibre.  This is important for your bowel health.  Bowel health becomes important when you don't have any.  Be nice to your bowel.
Go Nori!