Vol. 3
Spring/Summer Vegetables with Sesame Dressing
春から夏野菜のごま和え

　Adding dressing to vegetables of any season makes them delicious.　In our family, we like having sesame dressing, so we always have some of it reserved.

　　Even if you eat only one kind of seasonal beans with sesame dressing, it is delicious, but I also recommend using it to dress a lot of seasonal (spring/summer) vegetables as described in the following recipe.　As the topping, add some needle-cut ginger and fine stripes of myoga ginger to the dish.

- Proportion of 3 to 1 to 1 to 1 of sesame seeds, soy sauce, sugar, and vinegar
- Appropriate amount of beans
- Appropriate amount of pepper
- Appropriate amount of okra
- Appropriate amount of snap peas
- A dash of ginger and myoga ginger

* Select your favorite vegetables
* Per 200 gram of vegetables, you will need 2 tablespoons of sesame seeds, 2 teaspoons of soy sauce, 2 teaspoons of sugar, and 2 teaspoons of vinegar

1. Sesame dressing preparation

　After coarsely grinding the sesame seeds in a mortar, add the other ingredients of the dressing in the proportions specified above.　If it's not bothersome for you, in order to extract a sweet aroma from the sesame seeds, slightly fry them in a saucepan prior to grinding.

2. Cutting the ingredients for the topping

　Cut the myoga ginger into two halves, and further slice it into fine stripes.　After slicing, wash the stripes once, and then thoroughly dry them. Needle cut the ginger in a similar manner.　The key point of needle-cutting the ginger is to pile up ginger slices, and cutting them again little by little.　All the time keep in mind that the slicing should be very fine.

3. Dressing the boiled vegetables

　Pay attention to how you boil the vegetables. You cannot dress over-cooked vegetables with a delicious sesame dressing.

* Make your cooking time shorter, by putting all vegetables in one pot, and removing them according to the cooking time of each kind.

　Finally, a difficulty in adding dressing to a dish is removing as much moisture as possible, and adding the dressing itself just before serving. Dishes that are full of water become really messy. Add the sesame dressing little by little to taste, to adjust the proper amount.

（レシピ・写真： 冨田唯介）

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