If you’ve never eaten seaweed your head may well be full of all kinds of peculiar notions, based on something horrid you saw at the seaside as a child. But nori – a crisp, salty, malleable sheet of roasted seaweed – allows the Japanese to roll up those little rice rolls (maki). Special rice is spread over a sheet of nori, the filling is put on top, and the nori is twisted into a long, Swiss roll-shaped log and sliced into lots of mini rolls.
Recipes with nori
Nori-maki
Tuna and avocado inside-out maki