# I have a box of nori sheets. Now what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446 "2016-06-04T00:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/1 "2016-06-04T00:40:01Z")
Yes, I could make rice and roll homemade sushi. But that’s the only use for nori I’m familiar with. I have a vague sense that I had crispy sesame-flavored snack things made from them once … Did I dream that or is it possible to make something like that at home? What else can I do with them? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/2 "2016-06-04T00:44:53Z")
You can probably just snack on them. I use them as a low-calorie snack (mine are actually marketed as snacks – they might be a different thickness or something). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/3 "2016-06-04T02:20:16Z")
My wife and daughter just eat them plain, or crumbled up on rice with a dash of shoyu. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/4 "2016-06-04T10:59:33Z")
I love to just snack on them like everyone else. I also crumble them up and put them in seafood ramen. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/5 "2016-06-04T13:42:59Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > You can probably just snack on them. > [@kunilou](#): > > My wife and daughter just eat them plain > [@Kyrie\_Eleison](#): > > I love to just snack on them like everyone else. Yep. Seaweed is a nice snack. Or you can make [SPAM[sup]®[/sup] musubi](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/spam-musubi-recipe.html), which is very good. (Note: I cut the SPAM[sup]®[/sup] into eight slices, not ten.) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/6 "2016-06-04T14:43:44Z")
I’ve seen them chopped up and added to snack mixes with nuts and little pretzels and the like. Some Korean girls showed me their sushi like rolls, just smear a thin layer of topping over the nori and roll it up tightly, not just a single turn like maki, then slice it into thin pinwheels. You can cut it up and add it to miso or other soups just before serving. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/7 "2016-06-04T15:16:26Z")
You can hold it with tongs over an open flame (very very briefly!) and it’ll crisp up very nicely. You could also make a wonderful Japanese comfort food snack if you happen to like raw eggs: tamago-kake gohan. Take a bowl of piping hot steamed rice, crack open a raw egg into another bowl and whisk it, then pour it over the rice, add a nice splash of soy sauce, then eat, wrapping each tasty mouthful in nori before popping it down the hatch! I think what you had before was flavored seaweed, likely from Korea. That is flavored with salt, spices, sesame seeds and likely sesame oil. Wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/8 "2016-06-05T12:32:06Z")
If you also have some soba noodles on hand you can cut up the nori as a garnish. If making sushi rolls is too much hassle, just make _onigiri_. A little tuna and mayo or pickled plumb stuffed into a rice ball and wrapped in nori. Or (god have mercy on your soul) do this. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Or you can make [SPAM[sup]®[/sup] musubi](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/spam-musubi-recipe.html), which is very good. (Actually, I don’t mind Spam musubi so much, but I’m not crazy about it either.) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/9 "2016-06-05T12:52:51Z")
I like to make those triangular rice balls like they do Japan. Here’s the “cooking with dog” lady making them in [various shapes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACOmKiJDkA4). I do the triangular shape as it’s easiest. Stick some tasty filling inside, like a bit of smoked salmon, and then wrap the rice ball in a half-sheet of nori. They’re good take-along food to a picnic or the beach. ETA: Hey, spam musubi is yummy. I make them occasionally for breakfast, and serve them with sliced mango or pineapple chunks. It reminds us of being in Hawaii! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-box-of-nori-sheets-now-what/756446/10 "2016-06-05T16:46:52Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > … > > I think what you had before was flavored seaweed, likely from Korea. That is flavored with salt, spices, sesame seeds and likely sesame oil. Wonderful! ^^ that’s what I want to make. Ideas? Recipe links?