sesame ginger dressing

By foodiva

Ingredients

• 1 pound fresh spinach
• 1 teaspoon wolfberry or carrots
• 1/2 tablespoon sesame seeds
• 1 tablespoon chopped spring onion
• 1 inch root ginger minced
• 2 tablespoons boiled water or stock
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 2 teaspoons vinegar

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 15mins
Adapted from chinasichuanfood.com

Preparation

Step 1

Stir fry

Spinach is also called Parrot food in one of the traditional Chinese medicine book since it has green body and red mouth. The name is really lovely.Spinach is used in stir-fried dishes and soup dishes such as tofu soup with spinach. Besides, I love to use spinach to make cold dishes due to its green color and good absorption of marinades. It is quite a pleasure no matter from taste or vision. This dish introduced today is named as Spinach in ginger sesame sauce(姜汁菠菜), which is a quite common and popular dish in China.

Ginger sauce is a common Chinese salad dressing, using boiling water to disperse the minced ginger, and then add soy sauce, salt, vinegar, chicken essence to make the sauce. The spicy taste comes from the ginger. Comparing with the straight spicy of pepper, the spicy of ginger is more reserved. Ginger sauce is mainly used in cold dishes such as long green beans in ginger sauce(姜汁豇豆)，and lotus root in ginger sauce(姜汁莲藕).

The time for rinsing spinach in boiling water should be short to keep the original green color. And sesame oil should be added into rinsing water to keep the green color.

Usually it calls for wolfberry. But my husband hates it, so I replace wolfberry with carrots. The spinach sold on the market is mainly with large root; however spinach with small root is more fitful for this dish.

Serve:

2 tablespoons boiled water or stock

Mince the ginger carefully and pour 2 tablespoons boiled water to soak the ginger for around 20 minutes. And then add other ingredients for dressing sauce. Mix well and set aside.

Add some drops of sesame oil in water within a pot. And bring the water to a boiling.

Wash the spinach and rinse in boiling water for 30 seconds along with the wolfberry or carrots. Transfer out and squeeze the water out.

In a large bowl, mix the blended spinach and carrots with the salad dressing, sesame seeds and chopped spring onion.

Serve or place all the content to a small bowl. back off the small bowl on the plate to shape the tower.

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