Water-based Seaweed Paste for Making Seaweed Dips.

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The seaweed paste recipes are for the 'gourmet' in you. Every kind of food can be made into a delicious dip or spread. If your family dislikes the texture of peas or broccoli, just try it as a spread or a dip, and watch their attitudes change. Remember to add seaweed paste to cakes, cookies, and bread, to enhance taste and change the texture into a rich consistency that is hard to resist.

The water-based seaweed paste is a convenient consistency to add to water-based recipes requiring thickening and binding properties normally obtained by reduction or by adding cornstarch, arrowroot, or flour paste .

Brown or Green Water-based Paste.

The brown water-based seaweed paste is better for sauces, spreads, dips and puddings, because it has a stronger gelling strength than the green. When used in soups and salad dressings, it is capable of binding and holding textures in hot or cold dishes.

The green water-based paste still binds and gels like the brown seaweed but it is more difficult to hide the color, so is preferred in recipes that normally already have a green tint to them.

Combining the brown and green pastes together in recipes improves and enhances the taste of otherwise bland foods, and alternating between the two seawweed pastes is the best way to discover their individual properties.