Dinner · 10 min · Amounts not specified
Sesame spinach
Blanch, squeeze, dress. Gomae logic. The squeeze is the whole recipe.
The sheet · 4 as a side · 10 min
easyWhy tonight. Blanch, squeeze, dress. Gomae logic. The squeeze is the whole recipe.
What it needs
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- spinach
- sesame oil
- soy sauce
- sesame seeds
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: garlic.
Method
- Blanch the spinach thirty seconds and shock it in cold water, then squeeze it dry in your hands.
- That squeeze is the whole technique. Unsqueezed spinach makes a watery, diluted side.
- Dress it cold with sesame oil, soy and garlic, separating the squeezed clump with your fingers.
- Toasted sesame seeds crushed slightly so they release their oil. Served at room temperature.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepThe Best Way to Mince Garlic | Serious Eats At HomeSerious EatsCompares the knife methods for garlic, including when to take it all the way to paste.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- spinach
- Volume that vanishes. A pan-filling pile cooks down to a few spoonfuls, and the water it gives up will dilute whatever it lands in unless you wring it out first.
- sesame oil
- A seasoning, not a cooking oil.
- soy sauce
- Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
- sesame seeds
- Nothing much until they are toasted, then nutty and fragrant.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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