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How To Make Sesame Dressing

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this amazingly simple and basic guide to making a sesame dressing Japanese style. Atsuko, Japanese cooking expert, shows you how to make a Japanese traditional salad called Guam Ae, a salad recipe of green beans or any vegetable with sesame dressing. Enlarge

How To Make Sesame Dressing

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this amazingly simple and basic guide to making a sesame dressing Japanese style. Atsuko, Japanese cooking expert, shows you how to make a Japanese traditional salad called Guam Ae, a salad recipe of green beans or any vegetable with sesame dressing.

Prep:
5m
Cook:
3m
Total:
8m
Serves:
2

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp salt
  • 10 Japanese green beans
  • 3 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp mirin
  • 1/2 tsp brown sugar

Step 1: Prepare The Ingredients

Bring some water in a saucepan and bring to heat. Add a pinch of salt to the water and boil the green beans for about three minutes.

Step 2: Grind The Sesame Seeds

Using your Japanese grinder and bowl, grind the sesame seeds.

Step 3: Let The Green Beans Rest

Take the beans out of the water now and place them in cold water.

Step 4: Prepare The Dressing

To the ground sesame seeds, add the dark soy sauce, the mirin, the brown sugar, and then give this compound a stir.

Step 5: Slice Green Beans

Slice the green beans into pieces. Place these into a salad serving bowl, and then drizzle the dressing on top, and serve.