Recipe: Delicious Goma Ae (Vegetable with sesame sauce)

Goma Ae (Vegetable with sesame sauce). We call this dish "Goma-ae (胡麻和え)". Sweet and savory sesame sauce made with freshly ground sesame seeds adds rich and nutty flavors to refreshing blanched green vegetables. Goma-ae (胡麻和え), sometimes also spelled Gomaae or Gomae is a Japanese side dish.

This is a spinach salad with a flavorful sesame sauce (hourensou no goma-ae) that is very similar to our Green Beans with Sesame Sauce, and is a great little side dish. It is super quick to make, but very nutritious and tasty. It's best to make your own ground sesame using Suribachi (mortar) and Surikogi. You can have Goma Ae (Vegetable with sesame sauce) using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Goma Ae (Vegetable with sesame sauce)

1. You need 1/2 lb of Vegetables (Kale, Spinach, Green beans, Bell Pepper, Okura, Cabbage, Broccoli, Potato, Carrot, etc).
2. Prepare 2 tbsps of Roasted sesame (White or Black, as you like).
3. You need 1 tbsp of Sugar.
4. Prepare 1 tbsp of Soy sauce.

Ae translated implies a mix of seasonings that is then mixed with vegetables or other food to add flavoring. Other vegetables can be made with goma-ae sauce including spinach, okra, and tomato for example. It's a multipurpose sauce, so if you can't find mung. Spinach with sesame and miso dressing served with vegetable brown rice sushi rolls.

Goma Ae (Vegetable with sesame sauce) instructions

1. Boil or steam vegetables. For the leafy vegetables, please drain using a strainer after boiling, and cool them rapidly with cold water. Then gently squeeze to cut off extra liquid. Cut into a small pieces..
2. Roast sesame on the pan on low heat, until colored brown. (10-15min) If you're doing with black sesame, be careful not to burn!.
3. Grind sesame with grinder or processor. In Japan, traditionally use "Suri-Bachi", a bowl having rough inner surface to crush the foods and "Suri-Kogi", a rounded stick like a rolling pin..
4. Mix the vegetables with sesame, sugar and soy sauce..

I first had goma-ae, a traditional Japanese side dish of vegetables and sesame dressing, in a restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico that has since closed. Easy and very tasty Japanese vegetable dish. Serve as a side dish or if you are like me, eat a bowl of it with freshly cooked short grain rice! This dressing can be used for other veggies, such as broccolies and asparagus. In Japanese, "goma" means sesame seed and "ae" means sauce.

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