In the pantry · 18 uses
nori
Sea salinity in dry sheet form. Toasted briefly it crisps and smells sweet; left in liquid it dissolves into a savory background nobody can identify.
6
dishes and drinks that need it
12
more where it is worth adding
100%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Rice is in 83% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 6
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
Worth adding · 12
These work without it. They work better with it.