One of my favourite salad is the Horenso Salad at Gyu Kaku, raw spinach leaves with sesame dressing. Eager to make the dressing at home, we went online to search for the ingredients and found out its pretty simple to make!

It’s really trial and error to suit your taste and desired consistency. But it’s really made out of just 3 ingredients.

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp roasted white sesame seeds
• 2 tbsp Shoyu (soy sauce)
• 1 tbsp sugar, to suite your palate
• 1tbsp water, to suit your desired consistency

Optional

• 1 tbsp mirin (sweet sake)
• tsp mayonnaise

Preparation

1. If you bought raw sesame seeds, toast them on a skillet until brown and stir frequently so it won’t burn
2. Crush sesame seeds in a mortar, or just use a food processor.
3. Mix the shoyu, sugar and water with the ground sesame seeds to form the dressing for the salad.
4. Optional to add mirin or mayonnaise. The latter just gives a creamier texture.

Horenso Salad

Toss baby spinach and some sliced button mushrooms with the sesame dressing

Fry up small amount of bacon bits and thin garlic chips and sprinkle on top