Pacific Shrimp, Cucumber and Seaweed Salad

Featured: Pink Shrimp

Jennifer Burns Bright, North Coast Local Food Educator and Travel Writer

Ingredients

Serves 4 as an appetizer

  • 1/2 cup frozen, pre-cooked Pacific pink shrimp
  • 2 tablespoons dried dulse or wakame seaweed, or 1 cup foraged fresh
  • 1/2 English cucumber
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon soy sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 1 teaspoon sesame seeds

Instructions

  • Set aside frozen shrimp in small bowl to thaw on the counter.
  • Rehydrate dried seaweed or soak fresh seaweed in cold tap water for 10 minutes. Drain water and squeeze seaweed to get out as much water as possible, then chop into bite-sized pieces. Add to a medium-sized bowl.
  • As the seaweed is soaking, slice cucumbers as thin as you can with a knife or mandoline. Sprinkle salt over them, and let sit in a small bowl for 5 minutes. Squeeze water out from cucumbers and add to seaweed.
  • In a small bowl, mix rice vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, and sesame oil together until sugar dissolves, then add to the vegetables. Mix well.
  • Add shrimp and sesame seeds to a serving bowl and mix lightly. Refrigerate salad for about 10 minutes to blend the flavors, then serve in individual bowls.

Notes

  • This Japanese-inspired sunomono recipe uses sustainable pink Pacific shrimp caught by Oregon fishermen and seaweed off our shores. Did you know that Oregon produces farmed dulse in several locations? Use this meaty, slightly smoky seaweed if you can find it, or substitute dried wakame. Or forage it yourself from the Pacific!