Japanese Sesame Spinach

 

Ingredients:

1 bunch of Spinach (approx 220g)

3 tbsp White Roasted Sesame

1 tbsp Sugar (or Stevia or Monk Sugar)

1.5 tbsp Soy Sauce (choose a less salty type)

1/2 tsp Mirin

1/2 tsp Sake

Method:

Sesame Sauce:

1. Use a wooden grinder and grind the sesame in a grinder bowl until sesame all broken down. You can smell the nice aroma during grinding too.

2. Add the sugar, soy sauce, mirin and sake and mix well. and put aside.

Spinach:

1. Clean and rinse well the spinach.

2. Boil a pot of pot with a pinch of salt. Then put all spinach in the pot and cook for 45 seconds, then remove to a big bowl filled with ice water.

3. Once spinach are cool enough to handle, squeeze out all water using your hands.

4. Then cut up the spinach to say 2 inches long.

5. Mix with the sesame paste. Put in fridge for a while before serving.

Enjoy!