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    Home » By Category » Salads & Soups » Salads

    Published: Sep 21, 2015 · Modified: Oct 1, 2020 by Usha Rao

    Hourensou No Gomaae ~ Japanese Spinach Salad with Sesame Sauce

    Hourensou no gomaae is Japanese spinach salad flavored with sesame sauce. Preparation of this salad is similar to Korean spinach salad that I prepared last year for Around the World in 30 days. I liked the Korean salad a lot and since the preparation is similar, included this spinach salad to my Japanese breakfast menu that I made for Buffet on Table.

    Japanese Food, Japanese Cuisine, Japanese Salad, Spinach Salad,

    Unlike the sauce for Korean salad, sauce for this salad has a soy sauce based dressing. Also for this sauce, sesame seeds are powdered and mixed into the sauce. This spinach salad makes an excellent side dish and is very nutritious.

    Japanese Food, Japanese Cuisine, Japanese Salad, Spinach Salad

    Adapted: Japanese Cooking 101
    Preparation: 15 minutes
    Serves: 2

    Ingredients:

    • 8 oz / 225 grams Spinach (I used 90z/255gms baby spinach)
    • ½ - 1 tsp. Salt
    • 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
    • 2 tsp. Sugar (I used only ¼ tsp. and skip it if you do not like sweet in your salads)
    • 1 tbsp. Roasted Sesame Seeds, ground (I used 1 tbsp. powdered sesame seeds)
    • ¼ - ½ tsp. Roasted Sesame seeds for garnish

    Preparation:

    • Put water to boil in a 2 - 2 ½ quart sauce pan. Add salt.
    • While the water is boiling, powder roasted sesame seeds and add it to soy sauce. if using sugar, add it to soy sauce. Mix well to combine. Keep aside until spinach is ready.
    • Add spinach to boiling water and cook for 45 - 60 seconds. Do not over cook spinach. My spinach was slightly overcooked.
    • Pour the water & spinach into a colander and run under cold water to cool the spinach.
    • When spinach comes to room temperature, squeeze excess water from the spinach.
    • Take spinach in a serving bowl, pour sauce and toss. Sprinkle sesame seeds to garnish the salad.
    • Serve it as a side dish for breakfast or with any meal.

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    1. Pavani says

      September 29, 2015 at 7:25 pm

      Such a simple, healthy & delicious dish.

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    2. Sandhiya says

      September 26, 2015 at 1:23 am

      Healthy and yummy salad

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    3. cookingwithsapana says

      September 25, 2015 at 11:33 am

      Healthy and interesting salad.

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    4. srividhya says

      September 24, 2015 at 12:58 pm

      healthy and simple salad

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    5. Srivalli says

      September 22, 2015 at 4:12 am

      Very interesting salad and love how green it looks!

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    6. Vaishali Sabnani says

      September 21, 2015 at 2:23 am

      Interesting and healthy salad.the color looks so fresh.

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