Green beans with sesame dressing
Toasted sesame seeds are ground and mixed with rice vinegar, dashi, mirin, soy sauce and sugar to make the dressing. Briefly boiled green beans and thinly sliced red onion are tossed in to complete this lovely side dish.
Servings 3 people
Ingredients
- 250 grams green beans (8.8 oz)
- 1 red onion
Sesame dressing
- ¼ cup toasted sesame seeds
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons dashi
- 1 tablespoon mirin
- 1 tablespoon Japanese soy sauce
- 1½ teaspoons sugar
Instructions
Prepare the vegetables
- String the green beans and cut into two-inch lengths.
- Boil water in a pot, add the green beans and cook just until the color deepens.
- Scoop out the green beans and dump into a bowl of iced water. Leave to cool.
- Peel the onion, cut into halves and thinly slice.
Make the sesame dressing
- Place the toasted sesame seeds in a suribachi and grind to a coarse paste.
- Pour in the rice vinegar, dashi, mirin and soy sauce.
- Stir in the sugar and mix until dissolved.
Toss in the vegetables
- Drain the green beans well and add to the dressing.
- Add the sliced onion to the beans and dressing.
- Toss to coat the beans and onion slices with the sesame dressing.
- Transfer the contents of the suribachi to a shallow bowl and serve.
