Japanese rice/gohan
No Japanese meal is complete without gohan – fluffy, slightly sticky rice. Top this versatile food with pickles, spring onions, nori or katsuobushi flakes
Goma-ae Japanese greens
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 4
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- 200g fine green beanstrimmed
- 250g spinach
For the sauce
- 4 tbsp sesame seedstoasted
- 1 tbsp soy
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 tbsp white miso
- 1 tbsp mirin
- gomashio(salted sesame seeds), to serve (optional, available from amazon.co.uk)
Nutrition: Per serving
- kcal120
- fat5g
- saturates1g
- carbs10g
- sugars8g
- fibre4g
- protein5g
- salt0.9g
Method
step 1
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.
step 2
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.
