Kinilaw na Guso is a seaweed type of ingredients famously prepared in salad form by adding vinegar and other spices to taste. This salad recipe is very known in the Visayan part of the Philippines.
Seaweeds have amazing food properties. It has low calories and has substantial minerals suitable to your body like calcium, which helps build strong bones, iron, which helps prevent anemia, iodine for the proper functioning of thyroid hormones, potassium helps works on the human electrolyte level – which contribute to humans energy, magnesium which regulates the absorption of calcium and plays an important role in human body muscle. Seaweed is also a good source of Vitamin A.
So try this refreshing Seaweed Salad (Guso)…
Here’s the ingredients:
- 500 grams guso (seaweed)
- 250 grams cucumber (diced)
- 1 big onion (minced)
- 2 big tomatoes (diced)
- 1 thumb size ginger (minced)
- 2 Tbsp vinegar
- 1 tsp. salt (or according to taste preference)
- Chili powder (according to taste preference)
Procedures:
1. Blanch the seaweed with hot water, then washed it with cold water.
2. Mix all the ingredients and sprinkle chili powder.
3. You can serve it immediately or let it cool inside the fridge.
For more details on how to mix the Seaweed Salad, please see the video below:
