Japanese Roasted Sesame Seed Sauce

Name: Japanese Roasted Sesame Seed Sauce
Yield: Makes 200 ml
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine); 1 tablespoon brown sugar; 150 ml shoyu (Japanese soy sauce); 2 tablespoons mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine); ½ teaspoon dashi mixed with 100 ml warm water; ½ teaspoon dashi mixed with 100 ml warm water; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 120 g Japanese white sesame seeds (see tip); 150 ml shoyu (Japanese soy sauce); 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Preparation info

Makes
200 ml

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Paul Gayler's Sauce Book

By Paul Gayler

Published 2015

About

An extremely versatile sauce, but I love it best with fried rice; it adds an instant flavour burst. It also makes an excellent dipping sauce and goes very with most vegetables, especially green beans or broccoli.

Ingredients

120 g Japanese white sesame seeds (see tip)
1 tablespoon sesame oil

Asia
Japan
Sauce
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Heat a dry frying pan or wok over a high heat and, when it is almost smoking, add the sesame seeds and fry until golden, keeping the seeds moving to prevent them burning. Transfer to a mortar.
Add both oils and crush the seeds to a paste with a pestle.
Stir in the shoyu, mirin, sugar and dashi and water mixture, transfer to a bowl and refrigerate unti