I demonstrated
how to cook Japanese green beans with sesame dressing (Ingen no Gomaae) for Nikkei
Concern (http://www.nikkeiconcerns.org/seattlekeiro.html)
Health fair other day.
I decided to
make two types of sesame dressings. During
the process of creating recipes,
I looked up
my Japanese recipe books. My all cookbooks
of Japanese basic home cooking include a recipe of green beans and sesame
dressing or some sort of sesame dressing. I cook spinach with sweet soy sesame dressing
#1 often at home. I made green beans
with sweet and sour sesame dressing #2 at my party and it was popular that several guests
asked me about the dressing.
The
organizer of the Health fair asked me not to use sugar in the recipe because many
old attendants of the health fair have diabetes. I usually use sugar to make the both dressing.
I researched sugar substitutes and all have some problem. (Checkout: http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/are-artificial-sweeteners-a-healthy-substitute-for-sugar-201112304047)
I decided to use honey which is natural although the honey contains sugar and
have unique flavor.
I conducted
some test making sesame dressing. Honey is sweeter than sugar. I found the amount of honey which works for
the sesame dressing after several trials.
Also to keep
beans nice green after boiling, there are two way to parboil them. One way is
to cook beans in salted water. Others salt beans before parboiling. The first
way is commonly people use. So I decided to use the second method. But if your
doctor told you not eat salt much, you can eliminate salt when you boil the beans.
Here is the recipe which I made for the
health fair.
Green beans with sesame
seeds honey dressings
By FumikoB
8 ounces Green beans (About 32 medium size beans)
Water for boiling
½ teaspoon sea salt
½ teaspoon soy sauce
Dressing 1 ( Goma Ae)
6 Tablespoons Black sesame
seeds
2 Tablespoon Soy sauce
4 teaspoons honey *
2 Tablespoon Dashi or water
*If using sugar, 2
Tablespoon sugar in place of honey.
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Dressing2 (Goma yogoshi)
6 Tablespoons white sesame
seeds
1 Tablespoons honey*
2 Tablespoons rice vinegar
2 Tablespoon soy sauce
1 Tablespoon Dashi or water
*If using sugar, 1 and 1/2
Tablespoons sugar in place of honey.
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Cooking instructions for green beans
1.
Wash green beans and cut into pieces 1 ½ inches
long.
2.
Sprinkle sea salt on the green beans and mix so
beans are coated with salt.
3.
Boil water, then add beans, boil for 5 minutes.
(If you like tender beans, cook longer.)
4.
Strain the beans using a colander, and the place
in bowl.
5.
Add soy
sauce on the hot beans and mix.
6.
Cool the beans.
7.
Mix the sesame dressing with the beans.
8.
Plate the sesame marinated beans and serve at
room temperature.
Making Sesame Dressing
1.
Roast sesame seeds in a frying pan over medium
heat until nice aroma comes out.
2.
Grind sesame seeds in a Japanese mortar with a wooden pestle.
3.
Mix the rest of the ingredients
for dressing in another bowl with the ground sesame seeds.
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