Sesame Sauce

Name: Sesame Sauce
Yield: Makes 1½ cups (375 ml)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup (90 g) white sesame seeds; ¾ cup Dashi; 6 tablespoons tamari (Japanese soy sauce); 2 tablespoons mirin (sweet rice wine); 1 tablespoon sugar

Preparation info

Makes
1½ cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Soup

By Barbara Kafka

Published 1998

About

Ingredients

½ cup (90 g) white sesame seeds
¾ cup Dashi

Americas
United States
Sauce
Vegan

Method

In a small dry frying pan, cook the sesame seeds over medium heat, shaking the pan constantly, until lightly browned, about 2 minutes.

In a mortar and pestle, grind the still-warm seeds until flaky. Transfer to a bowl. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Ladle about ½ cup (