Crab Wrapped in Wakame Seaweed

Name: Crab Wrapped in Wakame Seaweed
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 5 Tbsp. niban-dashi (see Niban-Dashi recipe); 1 ⁄ 4 cup unseasoned rice vinegar; 1 Tbsp. mirin; 1 Tbsp. soy sauce; 2 Tbsp. fresh ginger; 6-8 large pieces of fresh salted wakame seaweed; 1 1 ⁄ 2 cups cooked crabmeat; Peeled daikon; Fresh mitsuba (trefoil); Salmon roe

Serves
serves 4

SAVEUR

These tiny ''vinegared bites'', like a salad course, sometimes appear early in the meal.

Ingredients

5 Tbsp. niban-dashi (see Niban-Dashi recipe)
¹⁄₄ cup unseasoned rice vinegar
1 Tbsp. mirin
1 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. fresh ginger
6-8 large pieces of fresh salted wakame seaweed
1 ¹⁄₂ cups cooked crabmeat
Peeled daikon
Fresh mitsuba (trefoil)
Salmon roe

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Instructions

Step 1

For sauce, combine niban-dashi, rice vinegar, mirin, and soy sauce in a bowl. Grate ginger, then place it in a clean dish towel and squeeze to yield about 1 tsp. ginger juice. Stir juice into dashi mixture.

Step 2

Blanch seaweed in a pot of boiling water over high heat for 30 seconds, then plunge it into a bowl of ice water. Drain and pat dry. Cut tough vein at top and all loose, long fronds away from each piece of wakame, leaving 1 rectangle. Overlap 3-4 of these pieces on a bamboo sushi rolling mat, making a 6 1⁄2'' x 4'' sheet of wakame.

Step 3

Pick bits of shell from crab meat, then spread half of the crabmeat along long edge of wakame nearest you. Pressing firmly, roll mat, shaping wakame and crab into one long roll. Trim edges, then cut roll into 6 pieces. Repeat process with remaining wakame and crab.

Step 4

Place 3 pieces of wakame-wrapped crab on each plate; spoon sauce on top. Finely grate enough peeled daikon to make about 1⁄2 cup. Squeeze excess juice from daikon; mound about 1 tbsp. daikon on each plate. Garnish with fresh mitsuba (trefoil) and 1 tsp. salmon roe.

For sauce, combine niban-dashi, rice vinegar, mirin, and soy sauce in a bowl. Grate ginger, then place it in a clean dish towel and squeeze to yield about 1 tsp. ginger juice. Stir juice into dashi mixture.
Blanch seaweed in a pot of boiling water over high heat for 30 seconds, then plunge it into a bowl of ice water. Drain and pat dry. Cut tough vein at top and all loose, long fronds away from each piece of wakame, leaving 1 rectangle. Overlap 3-4 of these pieces on a bamboo sushi rolling mat, making a 6 1⁄2'' x 4'' sheet of wakame.
Pick bits of shell from crab meat, then spread half of the crabmeat along long edge of wakame nearest you. Pressing firmly, roll mat, shaping wakame and crab into one long roll. Trim edges, then cut roll into 6 pieces. Repeat process with remaining wakame and crab.
Place 3 pieces of wakame-wrapped crab on each plate; spoon sauce on top. Finely grate enough peeled daikon to make about 1⁄2 cup. Squeeze excess juice from daikon; mound about 1 tbsp. daikon on each plate. Garnish with fresh mitsuba (trefoil) and 1 tsp. salmon roe.