Spinach with Peanut Sauce

Name: Spinach with Peanut Sauce (Horenso Peanuts Aé)
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 50 g/2 oz/⅓ cup unsalted shelled peanuts; 25 ml/1½ tbsp second dashi stock, or the same amount of warm water with a pinch of dashi-no-moto; 30 ml/2 tbsp shoyu; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp caster (superfine) sugar; 450 g/1 lb spinach

Horenso Peanuts Aé

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

Traditional Japanese cooking rarely uses fat or oil, and nuts have long been an important source of essential nutritional oils in the Japanese diet. In this recipe, called Horenso Peanuts Aé, peanuts are transformed into a creamy sauce and mixed with spinach.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb spinach

Asia
Japan
Fish course
Side dish
Pescatarian

Method

First, make the peanut sauce. Grind the shelled peanuts in a suribachi or a mortar and pestle. Alternatively, use an electric grinder.
Transfer the crushed nuts to a small mixing bowl and stir in the shoyu, sugar and dashi stock. When thoroug