Recipe: Sesame Spinach Salad (Korea)
I love salty foods. I think my love of sodium is a big part of the reason I like to eat sushi.
I want to share with you an easy recipe that I love from Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook. I use this cookbook often! It has recipes from many different countires; even Laos!
Just looking at the ingredients, I already knew that Sesame Spinach Salad cannot possibly taste bad:
I love sesame seeds; when I combined all of the ingredients for the sauce, the sesame oil smelled so good!
I love using sesame oil; it has such a rich flavor. If it doesn’t smell good, please throw it out because that means it has gone bad. I have had the same bottle of sesame oil for over a year now and it isn’t rancid yet.
After I steamed the one pound of spinach, I just cut it up with scissors, because I am a low-key cook. I’m all about the product, not the process.
Combine the deliciousness, then chill.
We ate ours for dinner over rice. I can’t tell you if that is proper or not, since I am not Korean, but it WAS delicious AND both children (ages 1 and 4) ate it without complaint!
The flavor is similar to seaweed salad that I have had before at sushi restaurants. I would love to bring this as a no-fuss cold salad to a potluck.
If you are preparing this for a crowd, I recommend you double or triple the recipe, because the spinach cooks down very small!
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23 October 2008, 1:30 pm
Thank you. This is one of my favorite dishes. I am so excited to have the recipe! I like it with a little peanut sauce (like satay sauce).
23 October 2008, 3:02 pm
Since I do like spinach and salt is one of my weaknesses, I imagine I’d like this.
I had the occasion to try lots of Korean foods and I like those almost as much as Chinese.
I LOVE Kimchee; it’s my favorite Korean dish but no one else here finds it palatable.
Thanks for sharing this one.
23 October 2008, 5:21 pm
This looks delicious! I tagged you.
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23 October 2008, 6:40 pm
That sound and looks so good! I love seaweed salad, and I’d probably love this too. I keep meaning to buy more sesame oil, since I just used up the last drops when making Miso Tofu
http://www.recipezaar.com/173422
I’m such a salt tooth too.
23 October 2008, 6:41 pm
That sound and looks so good! I love seaweed salad, and I’d probably love this too. I keep meaning to buy more sesame oil, since I just used up the last drops when making Miso Tofu last week
http://www.recipezaar.com/173422
I’m such a salt tooth too.
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24 October 2008, 1:59 am
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24 October 2008, 4:24 am
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25 October 2008, 8:48 pm
That looks so good. We found out at the end of last summer that my oldest (10) had outgrown his severe sesame allergy. It still takes a moment when I see a recipe like this before I realize, “Wow, I can feed this to my family.” I just may try it.
04 November 2008, 7:22 pm
I just bought spinach today and I’m really psyched to give this recipe a try!!! Wish me luck…
05 March 2009, 3:42 am
This salad looks great and also very easy to follow.
02 January 2010, 5:08 pm
I was feeling rather dubious about making sushi, but this site has made me feel at ease with the pictures and humor, I will definitely try now!!