Name: Asparagus Shira-Ae
Yield: For 4 As A Small Side Dish
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: 1 tbsp maple syrup/agave syrup/sugar; ½ tsp fish sauce (optional, if not using add extra salt); ½ tsp salt; 250 g/9 oz.silken or medium-firm tofu; 300 ml/10 fl oz/1¼ cups vegetable stock (or water); 1 bunch of asparagus; 1 small carrot, cut in half lengthways; 1 tsp.light soy sauce; 4 tbsp white sesame seeds

Preparation info

For
4
As A Small Side Dish

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

This is another sesame dish, this time using white seeds blended with tofu.

Ingredients

For the Sauce

250 g/9 oz.silken or medium-firm tofu
4 tbsp

Asia
Japan
Side dish

Method

Put the tofu in a sieve and leave for 15–30 minutes to get rid of the excess water.

Next, gently toast the sesame seeds in a frying pan until golden but not burnt. While still warm, grind them in a pestle and mortar until you achieve a smooth and oily paste. Mix in the drained tofu and other sauce ingredients and work the paste until it becomes the consistency of houmous (add some water

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