Goma-ae

Ingredients

• 14 ozspinach, washed, stalks kept on
• 1/4 cuptoasted sesame seeds
• 1 1/2 tbsptamari
• 2 tspcaster sugar
• 1 tspmirin

Method

1. 1

   Drop the spinach into a large pan of boiling water, stalks first, and count to thirty. Lift it straight into iced water.

2. 2

   Gather the cooled spinach into a bundle, line the stalks up, and squeeze hard from one end to the other. Cut the bundle into short lengths.

3. 3

   Grind three quarters of the sesame seeds in a mortar until about half of them have broken down and the mixture smells strongly nutty and starts to clump.

4. 4

   Stir the tamari, sugar and mirin into the ground sesame, fold the spinach through, and scatter the reserved whole seeds over the top.