Lightly Boiled Spinach with Toasted Sesame Seeds

Name: Lightly Boiled Spinach with Toasted Sesame Seeds (O-hitashi)
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: salt; 15 ml/1 tbsp sesame seeds; 30 ml/2 tbsp water; 30 ml/2 tbsp shoyu; 450 g/1 lb fresh spinach

O-hitashi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

O-hitashi has been served as a side dish on Japanese dining tables for centuries. Seasonal green vegetables are simply blanched and cooled and formed into little towers. With a little help from soy sauce and sesame seeds, they reveal their true flavour.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb fresh spinach
30 ml/2

Asia
Japan
Side dish
Vegan

Method

Blanch young spinach leaves in lightly salted boiling water for 15 seconds. For Japanese-type spinach, hold the leafy part and slip the stems into the pan. After 15 seconds, drop in the leaves and cook for 20 seconds.
Drain immediately and pl