10 Delicious Nori Recipes That Show off Seaweed at Its Best

By Alison Spiegel
Updated: August 27, 2018
Whether you’re churning out deep-fried crackers for poke, crumbling sheets into granola for an extra salty kick, or wrapping up Spam musubi, there are so many ways to cook with nori. Here are 10 of our favorite recipes that incorporate salty seaweed.
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Tuna Poke on Nori Crackers

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At Liholiho Yacht Club in San Francisco, chef Ravi Kapur serves his superdelicious take on the Hawaiian classic tuna poke on crispy, deep-fried nori crackers. A dollop of seasoned aioli is the perfect finish. Kapur makes his aioli, but he says any good-quality mayonnaise is a fine substitute.

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Nori Hand Rolls with Kale and Green Beans

Brown rice replaces the usual white in these fun-to-eat vegetable hand rolls.

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Spicy Japanese Popcorn

This delicious popcorn is flavored with a mix of Japanese seasonings like togarashi (a chile blend) and crumbled nori (dried seaweed).

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Nori Snack Mix

Rice-flake cereal, seasoned nori (seaweed flavored with sesame oil and salt), miso and wasabi come together in this light, munchable, Asian-inspired riff on Chex Mix.

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Potato Chips With Nori Salt

FRANCES JANISCH

Homemade nori salt gives these chips lots of umami flavor.

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Nori Chips

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F&W’s Kay Chun bakes stacked sheets of nori until they become a supercrunchy, addictive snack.

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Nori-Crusted Sirloin with Shiitake and Wasabi

Josh DeChellis is used to diners' initial skepticism when it comes to what he calls his more "out of control" ingredient combinations. Even the F&W Test Kitchen wondered if nori and wasabi could possibly go with the beef here. They do, and brilliantly. What's more, the recipe's healthy; ounce for ounce, sirloin has less saturated fat than chicken thigh with skin.

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Grilled Tofu with Asparagus and Nori Vinaigrette

Lee Anne Wong plays with an array of Asian ingredients to create a wonderful marinade for extra-firm tofu or high-fiber tempeh (cakes made from fermented whole soy beans). Tempeh's nutty flavor and grainy texture make it an acquired taste, but Wong loves it here.

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Classic Shoyu Musubi


Abby Hocking

This popular Hawaiian snack of soy-and-sugar-glazed Spam and sushi rice wrapped in nori is totally addictive. Cook Allison Robicelli admits that she had hesitations about trying it, but now it’s one of her favorites. “It’s ridiculous how we have a national aversion to Spam. Shoulder is the best part of the pig, in my opinion,” she says.

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Nori Granola

© Kristin Casemore

Blogger and cookbook author Heidi Swanson makes her superaddictive, crispy, savory snacking granola with oats, cashews, fennel seeds and plenty of salty nori.

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