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Japanese Green Beans with Sesame Dressing

While sauteeing or stir frying vegetables may seem like the easiest and fastest ways to make a delicious side dish, there are times when boiling vegetables can be just as quick and the result can be just as wonderful.

Japanese Green Beans with Sesame Dressing

In this recipe, toasted sesame seeds are ground and mixed with rice vinegar, dashi, mirin, soy sauce and sugar to make the dressing. Briefly boiled green beans and thinly sliced red onion are tossed in to complete this lovely side dish.

We use a suribachi (traditional Japanese mortar and pestle) to grind toasted sesame seeds. If you don’t own one, you may use a regular mortar and pestle but the process of turning toasted sesame seeds into a coarse paste may take longer.

Will a mini processor work? Well, it will grind the seeds but unless you can pour liquid ingredients into the processor, you will need to scrape the paste into a bowl to stir in the liquid ingredients. So much flavor (think of the oil from the sesame seeds) will get lost in the transfer.

In the end, it is your decision what to use to grind the sesame seeds. If you go with a food processor, you might want to add a drizzle of sesame seed oil to the dressing to make up for whatever flavor is lost along the way.

Japanese Green Beans with Sesame Dressing

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
A side dish that can go with chicken, meat or fish. The savory tangy-sweet dressing coats the green beans beautifully while the thin slices of onion give the dish more crunch and a bold bite.
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 8 mins
Total Time 18 mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 3 people
Japanese Green Beans with Sesame Vinegar Sauce
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Ingredients
  

  • 250 grams green beans
  • 1 red onion

Sesame dressing

  • ¼ cup toasted sesame seeds
  • 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons dashi
  • 1 tablespoon mirin
  • 1 tablespoons Japanese soy sauce
  • 1 ½ teaspoons sugar

Video

Instructions
 

Prepare the vegetables

  • String the green beans and cut into two-inch lengths.
  • Boil water in a pot, add the green beans and cook just until the color deepens.
    Boiling green beans and dumping them in iced water
  • Scoop out the green beans and dump into a bowl of iced water. Leave to cool.
  • Peel the onion, cut into halves and thinly slice.

Make the sesame dressing

  • Place the sesame seeds in a suribachi and grind to a coarse paste.
    Grinding toasted sesame seeds in a suribachi
  • Pour in the rice vinegar, dashi, mirin and soy sauce.
    Adding liquid ingredients to ground sesame seeds in suribachi
  • Stir in the sugar and mix until dissolved.

Toss in the vegetables

  • Drain the green beans well and add to the dressing.
    Adding cooled green beans and thinly sliced red onion to sesame vingear dressing
  • Add the sliced onion to the beans and dressing.
  • Toss to coat the beans and onion slices with the sesame dressing.
    Tossing green beans and onion in sesame vingear dressing
  • Transfer the contents of the suribachi to a shallow bowl and serve.

Notes

Adapted from a recipe in NHK World.
Keyword Green Beans
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