Spinach With Sesame Dressing Recipe - Cooking Index
Spinach With Sesame Dressing Recipe - Cooking Index
A mixed green salad you toss. My spinach salad, made Chinese style with cooked spinach, you squeeze. After eliminating the water from the spinach bunches, I cut them into logs and arrange them on a serving plate. Depending on my mood, I stack them like cordwood or stand the bundles on end.
Courses: Salads| 1 1/2 lbs | 681g / 24oz | Spinach or watercress |
| Dressing | ||
| 3 tablespoons | 45ml | Sesame seeds - toasted |
| 2 | Cubes white fermented bean curd (fu yu) - abt 1 1/2 tbspns | |
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Dry sherry or Chinese rice wine |
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Sugar |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Instant bonito soup stock base (hon-dashi) - mixed with |
| 1/4 cup | 59ml | Hot water |
| 1/4 teaspoon | 1.3ml | Crushed red pepper |
| 1/8 teaspoon | 0.6ml | Freshly-ground white pepper |
Place 2 1/2 tablespoons of the sesame seeds in a blender with the rest of the dressing ingredients and blend until smooth. Without trimming the roots and stems, wash the spinach in a large bowl of water; discard any wilted leaves.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the spinach and cook 1 minute. Drain, rinse under cold running water, and drain again. Lay 2 or 3 bunches of spinach together on a work surface so they form a bundle about 1-inch in diameter; squeeze to remove as much water as possible. Trim and discard the root ends and cut each bundle into 2-inch lengths. Repeat with the remaining spinach. Arrange the cut bundles on a serving platter and pour the dressing on top. Sprinkle with the remaining sesame seeds.
This recipe yields 4 to 6 servings.
Tip: Fermented bean curd is packed in jars in a thin liquid flavored with wine. It may have chiles added for color and flavor. Don't be put off by its very pungent odor; it is delicious in this dressing. Covered and refrigerated, a jar of "fu yu" will keep for a long time.
Microwave Method: In step 2, spin the spinach dry in a plastic salad spinner. Cover the spinner with plastic wrap, place it right in the microwave, and cook on high for 4 minutes. Divide the spinach into 3 bundles; lay them on paper towels and squeeze them dry, forming 1-inch logs as above. Trim, cut, and dress as above.
Source:
Everybody's Wokking by Martin Yan, (Harlow & Ratner, 1991)
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