Spinach Gomae - Japanese Spinach Salad
Goma-ae, sometimes also spelled Gomaae or Gomae is a Japanese side dish. It is made with vegetables and sesame dressing. One of the most common versions, often found at Japanese restaurants in the West, is served in the form of a spinach salad, mixed with sesame sake sauce or miso paste and topped with sesame.
Servings: 4 Servings
Ingredients
Spinach Gomae:
- 10 cups organic spinach or baby spinach
- ½ tbsp shoyu soy sauce
The Sauce:
- 4 tbsp sesame seeds grounded
- 1 tbsp shoyu soy sauce
- 4 tbsp dashi
- 1 tsp sesame oil
Instructions
- Blanch the spinach in boiling water 30-45 secs for mature spinach and 15-30 secs for baby spinach
- Strain and squeeze excess water out of spinach
- Add ½ tbsp of soy sauce and squeeze that out as well
- Cut the spinach to size
- Toast the sesame seeds in a pan
- Grind the seeds using a mortar and pestle or processor
- Prep the sauce – add all ingredients in a bowl, mix,
- Mix into the spinach, and then enjoy.