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.

Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must 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. Take 1 bundle Spinach
  2. Take 2 Tbsp Sesame seeds
  3. Take 1 Tbsp soy source or Miso(fermented soybean paste)
  4. Make ready 1/2 Tbsp sugar

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. Hourensou no goma-ae (菠薐草の胡麻和え) literally translates to "spinach dressed with sesame seeds". If that sounds simple, that's because it is.

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.

With only a handful of other ingredients, it's a quick Japanese salad that's served as a side for breakfast, lunch or dinner. There are very few sauces which are black-colored. Squid ink is one of the few well known ones. Japanese black sesame sauce (goma-ae) should be another; its shiny black color is mysterious and dramatic. Since the sauce is nutty and slightly sweet, it complements many types of blanched or.

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