Japanese Sesame Salad Dressing

This salad dressing posted by Jessie got me very excited.  I love Japanese style salad dressing and this recipe is a God send. Jessie's Sesame Salad Dressing, a recipe shared by her Japanese friend, is truly fantabulous and I love it a lot and a lot and a lot!

The ingredients used in this dressing are sesame seeds, carrot, brown onion, garlic, sugar, oil, brown rice vinegar and light soya sauce.

The sesame seeds are lightly toasted until fragrant and all there is to do next is to put all the ingredients into a blender and whizz away. Easy isn't it?

Everything goes into the blender.

The first thing that hit me when I removed the lid of the blender was the beautiful aroma of the toasted sesame seeds. One taste and I instantly feel in love with this dressing! The carrot and onion contributed to the flavor of the dressing and at the same time acted as a natural thickener. What you get is a smooth creamy dressing that will encourage you to eat more salad. 

You can use any vegetable that you like to make the salad and as you know, what makes or breaks a salad is the dressing. I used the ready washed salad greens available at the supermarket and this saves me from having to wash and drain my greens. To that I added Japanese cucumbers, onions and cherry tomatoes. For the protein, I used my favorite oinks - siew yoke. If you have read my earlier post Siew Yoke Kerabu, you will know that I like my siew yoke with some fats. Yes, Ivy, I hear you screaming. But don't worry. I don't eat siew yoke all the time.

I must say that the dressing went very well the siew yoke and of course with the fresh tasty greens. I think anyone who does not like salads will be instantly converted when they taste this gorgeous dressing.

Jessie, a very big thank you for sharing this recipe. And to the rest of you, please try this salad dressing. I promise you that you will fall in love with it too!

I am reproducing Jessie's recipe below with slight modifications. The only changes that I made was that I omitted the sugar and I increased the amount of vinegar slightly. I have reduced my sugar intake by quite a lot (I take my coffee without sugar) and my tastebuds have become more sensitive. I reckon the natural sweetness from the carrots and onions would be just nice for me and I was right.

Japanese Sesame Salad Dressing

Recipe source : Jessie Cooking Moments

(My modifications in red)

Ingredients :

- 30g white sesame seeds, dry fried/toasted until fragrant
- 1/2 carrot, roughly chopped

- 1/2 brown onion (Bombay onion), roughly chopped

- 1 clove garlic, roughly chopped

- 50g castor sugar (I omitted)

- 350ml sunflower oil (I used grapeseed oil)

- 100ml brown rice vinegar (I used 125ml)

- 130 ml light soya sauce

Method :

- put all the ingredients into a blender and blend until everything is fine and emulsified.

- store in a glass jar and keep refrigerated.

Note : The dressing will separate after standing for sometime, so shake the bottle before using.