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Nori Recipes

6 recipes with nori for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

6 recipes

Udon Noodle Soup (Kake Udon) with udon noodles, dashi and soy sauce — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Udon Noodle Soup (Kake Udon)

Kake udon (かけうどん) is the plainest bowl of Japanese udon noodle soup: thick, chewy wheat noodles in a clear golden dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin, topped with scallion and little else. The broth is pale gold but deep in umami, lightly sweet from the mirin. Udon is a specialty of the Kagawa region (Sanuki udon) and is eaten everywhere in Japan; the Kansai version uses a lighter broth, the Kanto version a darker, more assertive soy, and this recipe follows Kansai. The 20 minutes is hands-on time with dashi packets or powder; homemade dashi adds 20 to 30 minutes of passive kombu soaking. Make the broth right and the noodles take care of themselves.

20 min380 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls) with japanese short grain rice, nori and salted salmon — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls)

Onigiri, also called omusubi, are Japanese rice balls: warm short-grain rice, lightly salted, pressed by hand around a small filling and wrapped in nori. The rice gets no vinegar, which is what separates onigiri from sushi. The name comes from nigiru, to grasp, and that is the method too: no mould, just wet salted hands and three or four firm turns. This recipe makes three classic fillings from one pot of rice: salted salmon, umeboshi plum and tuna with mayonnaise. Onigiri are made to be carried and eaten at room temperature.

60 min390 kcal5 serves

Kimbap with short grain rice, nori and pickled radish — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Kimbap

The Korean seaweed rice roll built for lunchboxes and picnics: short-grain rice seasoned with sesame oil, rolled in a sheet of gim with strips of yellow pickled radish, carrot, spinach, egg, and crab, then sliced into rounds. It looks like sushi, but the sesame-oil rice makes it nutty and savoury, and the fillings are cooked, pickled or crisp fresh vegetables, so the roll packs neatly into a lunchbox.

50 min320 kcal4 serves

Salmon Poke Bowl with salmon, short grain rice and avocado — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Salmon Poke Bowl

Poke is Hawaii's dish of cubed raw fish dressed with soy sauce and sesame oil; the classic there is shoyu poke made from ahi tuna, without rice. This salmon version is a poke bowl, the form popular on the US mainland: sushi-grade salmon marinated briefly with spring onion and served cold over rice with avocado, edamame, cucumber and sesame. Everything comes down to the fish, cut clean and marinated only long enough to stay silky. The salmon marinates in the fridge for 15–20 minutes while the rice cools.

40 min780 kcal2 serves

💪High protein

Salmon Rice Bowl with salmon, short grain rice and Kewpie mayonnaise — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Salmon Rice Bowl

The viral salmon rice bowl: flaked cooked salmon over warm short-grain rice, revived with an ice cube steamed under nori, then dressed with Kewpie mayo, soy, and sriracha and topped with avocado. It started as a way to turn leftover salmon into something better than the original, and it's become a lunch in its own right — savoury, creamy, and ready in minutes.

20 min520 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Kimchi Fried Rice with kimchi, short grain rice and gochujang — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Kimchi Fried Rice

The definitive Korean way to use up sour kimchi and day-old rice: the kimchi is fried until it caramelises, seasoned with gochujang, tossed with cold rice, and topped with a runny fried egg. It's a five-minute weeknight plate built entirely from fridge and pantry staples, and it lives or dies on how fermented the kimchi is.

20 min480 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy🌿Vegetarian

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short-grain rice salmon avocado dashi soy sauce mirin japanese short-grain rice pickled radish carrot Kewpie mayonnaise gochujang egg