Ingen no Goma-Ae

Name: Ingen no Goma-Ae
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tbsp mirin (Japanese rice wine), or use a dry sherry; 300 g French beans, topped and tailed; 1 good tsp brown rice miso paste; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp soft light brown sugar; 3 tbsp sesame seeds

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Spring and Summer Cooking with a Veg Box (Riverford Companions)

By Guy Watson

Published 2015

About

A Japanese dressing with sesame seeds – black ones make for dramatic contrast if you can find them. Serve as a side dish with simple grilled fish, or use as the main component of a stir-fry.

Ingredients

3 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tbsp soft light brown sugar
1 good

Garnish
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Method

Put the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan. Heat gently, stirring now and then, until they turn a toasty brown colour (be careful not to burn them; they turn very quickly).

Transfer half the seeds to a mortar, grind then add the sugar, miso paste, soy sauce and mirin and mix together so you have a thick dressing.

Boil the beans in a pan of salted water for 4–5 minutes, until tende