Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae)
Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae)

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Goma (胡麻) in Japanese means sesame seed and goma-ae (胡麻和え) is a dish that's dressed with the sesame sauce. The word ae (pronounced as [ah EH]. 和え) comes from the verb aeru ([ah EH loo]. 和える) which is to dress (the food with sauce). Spinach Gomaae as Easy Side Dish.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook japanese spinach with sesame sauce(goma ae) using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae):
  1. Prepare 1 bundle Spinach
  2. Make ready 2 Tbsp Sesame seeds
  3. Make ready 1 Tbsp soy source or Miso(fermented soybean paste)
  4. Take 1/2 Tbsp sugar

With only a handful of other ingredients, it's a quick Japanese salad that's served as a side for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This is a spinach salad with a flavorful sesame sauce (hourensou no goma-ae) that is very similar to our Green Beans with Sesame Sauce, and is a great little side dish. It is super quick to make, but very nutritious and tasty. It's best to make your own ground sesame using Suribachi (mortar) and Surikogi.

Instructions to make Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae):
  1. Prepare a deep pot with plenty of water and bring to boil. Meanwhile, wash the spinach well.
  2. Grab spinach leaves and dip stem part in boiling water for a minute and put whole spinach in the pot. Cook until it gets soft.
  3. Get spinach out from the pot and cool it in cold water. Squeeze the spinach and put in on a chopping board. Cut spinach into bite-size.
  4. Pour sesame seeds in a mortar. Food processor also works. Grind it until you smell strong sesame flavours, and mix in soy sauce and sugar.
  5. Combine spinach and sesame sauce and mix well.

Goma means sesame and Ae means sauce in Japanese. It's made with vegetables and sesame dressing. The most common version in the west is in the form of This chilled Japanese Spinach Goma takes merely minutes to cook. The only time you need is probably waiting for the water to boil! Spinach is tossed with a nutty sesame sauce.

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