Toasted nori crisps – a.k.a. seaweed crack

by | Jul 6, 2010 | Columns, Eat. Heal. Live., Featured | 4 comments


toasted nori crisps This post will be unusually short and sweet. There’s no real story here, no tale of glee or woe or self discovery. Nope, this post is just snack food, pure and simple.

These are light, airy, crispy, salty, and aromatic. They are so quick to prepare that they give almost instant gratification, something that rarely happens when you eat like we have to eat. Oh yeah, and the are completely and totally addictive. Therefore, I am giving them the alternative name of Seaweed Crack. One bite and you’re hooked. If you have any hesitancy about eating seaweed, these tempting little things will turn you right around and get you on track to being a serious seaweed-eater. It is like a gateway drug to the world of sea vegetables.

After making and promptly devouring the first batch, you’ll want to make another batch. And if you’re like me, you probably will. And then you’ll devour that one too.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.


ingredients

nori seaweed sheets
toasted sesame oil
sea salt


directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400º F.
  2. Using a basting brush (or your fingers if you don’t have one) lightly coat both sides of a sheet of nori with sesame oil, then sprinkle with sea salt.
  3. Place oiled nori directly on oven rack and bake for 10 minutes, until crispy and just starting to brown.
  4. Remove from the oven, let cool, then break into pieces or slice with a pizza cutter (my preferred method).
  5. Eat.

Notes: You can mess around with this a million ways. Try other seasonings – garlic powder is awfully tasty. If you are allergic to sesame, you could use any other oil and it will work just as well. Get creative, and go crazy.

no measurements – make as much or as little as you want

recipe courtesy affairsofliving.com

Author

  • Earthwalker

    Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.

    Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.

    A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.

    She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.

    In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.

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4 Comments

  1. jeny

    God I love this stuff! I get it pre-packaged from Whole Foods. I was just eating some yesterday and saying I could eat 20 packages at once, no problem.

  2. earthwalker

    I am already an addict – they sell them at my health food store. I eat 2 packs every day. Each pack has about 6 seaweed crisps in them. Sometimes I eat 3 packs! I have to be careful and only eat them on a full stomach, or else it might make my thyroid do strange things. When I first started eating them, I would get high. Not anymore. But I am still an addict!

  3. Liberty

    I love nori and have gotten a ‘high’ from it… I worried that it could be due to high levels (natural) of glutamic acid. I’m sensitive to msg so I have been concerned that seaweed is not a safe food.

  4. Amy JVetere

    YUMMY! I am going to have to make these-should take up stock in Nori, my girls eat it all the time, straight out of the package, so if I need some for a recipe…..GONE! ha Thank you for sharing!

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