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Green beans with sesame dressing
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.
Course
Side Dish
Cuisine
Japanese
Prep Time
10
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
8
minutes
minutes
Total Time
18
minutes
minutes
Servings
3
people
Author
Connie Veneracion
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
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.
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.
Pour in the rice vinegar, dashi, mirin and soy sauce.
Stir in the sugar and mix until dissolved.
Toss in the vegetables
Drain the green beans well and add to the dressing.
Add the sliced onion to the beans and dressing.
Toss to coat the beans and onion slices with the sesame dressing.
Transfer the contents of the suribachi to a shallow bowl and serve.
Notes
Adapted from a
recipe
in NHK World.