Japanese Spinach Salad with Sesame Dressing (Horenso Gomaae)

Ingredients

• Spinach

  Raw

  1 bunch or 340g

• Salt

  Table

  ¹⁄₁₆ dash or 0.03g

• Sesame seeds

  Seeds, whole, dried

  3 tbsp or 27g

• Soy sauce

  Made from soy (tamari)

  1 ½ tbsp or 27g

• Sake

  Alcoholic beverage, made from rice

  ½ tsp or 3g

• Rice wine vinegar

  ½ tsp or 3g

Directions

1. Gather all the ingredients.
2. [Optional] For the sesame sauce, put sesame seeds in a frying pan and toast them on low heat. When 2-3 sesame seeds start to pop from the pan, remove from the heat.
3. Grind the toasted sesame seeds with a mortar and pestle. Leave some sesame seeds unground for some texture.
4. Add 1 1/2 Tbsp. soy sauce, 1 Tbsp. sugar, 1/2 tsp. sake, 1/2 tsp. mirin to the ground sesame seeds and mix all together.
5. Put lightly salted water in a large pot and bring to boil. Once boiling, add the spinach from stem side (takes longer to cook) and cook for 30-45 seconds.
6. Remove the spinach from the water and soak in iced water to stop cooking with remaining heat. Alternatively, drain and run the spinach under cold running water until cool. Collect the spinach and squeeze water out.
7. Cut the spinach into 1-2" (2.5-5 cm) lengths and put in a medium bowl.
8. Add the sesame sauce and toss all together. Serve at room temperature or chilled. You can keep in the refrigerator for 2-3 days or freezer for 2-4 weeks.
9. Recipe by: Nami (source: https://www.justonecookbook.com/spinach-with-sesame-sauce/)

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