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Cochayuyo Alga recipes (2)

Cochayuyo Alga recipes (2)
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Published: 01/11/2006 - Updated: 10/30/2018

Author: Nayeli Reyes2 Comments

Cochayuyo Alga, Cochayuyu or Colloi is a large alga that can reach 15 meters in length. Its scientific name is Durvillaea antarctica and belongs to the botanical family of the Phaeophyta or brown algae.

This alga has been one of the food resources of Native American communities for centuries and today is part of the traditional Chilean cuisine. Generally used Cooked. It has to be cooked for 15 or 20 minutes, drain and reserve.
You can enjoy its taste and value as an ingredient in salads, paella, soups and stews…

Contents

  • Cochayuyo crust
  • Vegetable and Cochayuyo soup
  • Cochayuyo casserole with the tempeh
  • Seitan with Cochayuyo

Cochayuyo crust

Ingredients:

  • 100 gr of Cochayuyo
  • 1 bottle of dry shiitake mushroom canned
  • 3 fat cloves of garlic (+ 2 for the mash)
  • 2 eggs
  • Olive oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper

Preparation:

  1. Dip Cochayuyo algae with two cloves of chopped garlic for a few hours to rehydrate for good.
  2. Heat oil in a saucepan and add the minced garlic cloves too. When garlic starts to release its aroma to the cooking, add the drained mushrooms and cut into pieces the size of Cochayuyo, there are some twists and algae are added to the to be removed excess water from the soaking.
  3. Let it all cook together for a while. Separately beat egg yolks and the whites (in the snow). The buds were cast on slowly and carefully prepared, stirring to mix evenly. Miss salt and pepper. When the bud begins to curdle, throw the snow whites on top. Cover the pan and leave until they have completely curdled.

Vegetable and Cochayuyo soup

Ingredients:

  • 50 grams of dried seaweed Cochayuyo
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 leek
  • 1 turnip
  • 1 celery branch
  • olive oil
  • 2 liters of salt water

Preparation:

  1. Soak the algae in order to hydrate.
  2. Put all the vegetables clean and cut often together with algae to sauté with a few spoonfuls of oil, for about 15 minutes on low heat.
  3. Add water, and let boil about 25 minutes.

Cochayuyo casserole with the tempeh

Ingredients:

  • 100 g of dry Cochayuyo
  • 200 gr of tempeh
  • 2 medium red peppers
  • 1 large eggplant
  • 2 medium tomatoes
  • 1 large onion
  • Tamari
  • 2 tablespoons of minced garlic
  • parsley
  • toasted almonds

Preparation:

  1. Soak seaweed in water until tender. Drain, reserving water. Gently fry the onion, pepper, tomato and eggplant cut into cubes.
  2. Then add the tempeh to algae. Cook about 5 min everything.
  3. Add the soaking water and Tamari. After 20 minutes add the chopped and cook 5 minutes more to heat.

Seitan with Cochayuyo

Ingredients:

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  • 2 onions
  • 100 gr of Cochayuyo
  • 500 g of seitan
  • 2 tablespoons of flour
  • a cup of broth to cook the seaweed
  • 1 cup of red wine thyme
  • pepper
  • parsley

Preparation:

  1. Soak the cochayuyo until tender, boil for 10 min. then drain, reserving the cooking water. The cut seitan into large dice and skip in oil. Book. Skip the onion until transparent, add 2 tablespoons of flour and sauté, add the drained Cochayuyo and cook for a while.
  2. Add the seitan, cook and algae species, cook a few minutes all together and sprinkle with wine. Giving a boil in a sauce so that it is linked, not too thick (if necessary add more broth), correct salt if necessary and add the chopped parsley over too.

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About the author

By Nayeli Reyes

Nayeli is an expert cook, with the title of Chef by the International Culinary School of Guadalajara (Mexico), where she obtained the honorable mention for her great talent and dedication. In Biomanantial.com she presents her best recipes so that we can prepare them easily.

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Comments
  1. Sabrina

    4 de March de 2014 at 14:34

    The algae is perfect for a good diet, I still have not found this ingredient but I am looking forward it, since I have read many articules related to it in this webpage, thanks for sharing the many recipes with the whole world and once I found the alga and prepare something, I will let you know

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  2. Stacy

    22 de November de 2014 at 09:22

    Thanks so much for these recipes! I just wanted to let you know that I tried the seaweed recipe for the casserole with tempeh, and it turned out fantastic!! I had quite a bit of difficulty finding all the ingreadients – we live in alaska and have very little selection in oddities – but I finally found everything and have labelled this as a “keeper”

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