Goma Ae Green Beans Japanese Green Beans With Sesame Dressing Recipes

GOMA-AE JAPANESE GREENS

Steps:

• Get a bowl of iced water ready. Bring a pan of salted water to the boil, add the green beans and cook for 2-3 mins until bright green but still crunchy. Use a slotted spoon to remove the beans and plunge them into the ice water. Add the spinach to the boiling water and cook for 20-30 secs, then remove and add to the ice water. Once cool, drain the greens in a sieve over the bowl and set aside for 5 mins so that all the water drips out of them.
• Make the dressing by grinding the sesame seeds with a pestle and mortar or spice grinder, then mix in the other ingredients. Toss the greens in the dressing, top with the gomashio, if using, and serve.

SPINACH KURO GOMA-AE (SWEET BLACK SESAME DRESSING)

Steps:

• Put the sesame seeds in a frying pan without oil and dry roast them over medium heat for 2-3 minutes (note 1).
• Put the sesame seeds in a mortar and grind them until majority of seeds are ground.
• Add the remaining Kuro Goma-ae Dressing ingredients to the sesame and mix well.
• Fill a large pot with water, add a pinch of salt, and bring it to a boil.
• Submerge the bottom part of the spinach into the boiling water and keep the leaves out of the water for about 15 seconds, then push the leaves into the water. Boil for 30 seconds or so, until the stems become soft.
• Drain and rinse the spinach under cold running water, ensuring that dirt near the clusters is cleaned off.
• Take a few stems of spinach at a time, squeezing the water out as much as you can and place them on a cutting board horizontally. Repeat for the rest of the spinach.
• Trim off the roots by cutting just above the pink part. This will remove each leaf from the cluster.
• Cut the spinach into 5cm / 2" long pieces.
• Take each 5cm / 2" bunch, squeeze the residual water out and transfer it to the mortar (note 2).
• Mix well until all the spinach pieces are coated in the dressing. Transfer to serving bowls.

JAPANESE-STYLE SESAME GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Warm a large skillet or wok over medium heat. When the skillet is hot, pour in canola and sesame oils, then place whole green beans into the skillet. Stir the beans to coat with oil. Cook until the beans are bright green and slightly browned in spots, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in soy sauce; cover, and let sit about 5 minutes. Transfer to a serving platter, and sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds.

GOMA-AE GREEN BEANS - JAPANESE GREEN BEANS WITH SESAME DRESSING

Steps:

• For the dressing, dry roast sesame seeds in a frying pan for about a couple of minutes, gently jiggling the pan. Careful not to burn them.
• With a pestle and a mortar, partially grind the sesame seeds.
• In a large bowl, mix together ground sesame seeds, soy sauce, sugar, and a pinch of salt.
• Cut the green beans if they are too long. Cook the green beans by boiling until desired tenderness is reached. Drain and briefly run them under running water so that the beans stay green.
• While the green beans still warm, toss them in the sesame dressing.
• The dressing looks more like a paste than dressing but that's exactly how you want it to be, otherwise when mixed with the green beans, the dressing gets too runny and the green beans won't taste as nice.

GOMA-AE

Steps:

• Clean and blanch the spinach. To do this drop into boiling water and remove immediately.
• Rinse in very cold water. Drain well. You may want to gently squeeze out excess.
• Heat a skillet very hot. Add the seeds and toat a couple minutes until brown. Then put them in a blender or spice grinder and grind.
• Add the remaining ingredients to blender and process into thin paste. Then add to spinach and stir well.
• Note If using add the bonito flakes to the top as garnish right before serving.
• 2-4 [we are big Spinach eaters -- servings depend on how you serve it.].