Wednesday, July 31, 2013

WWDH - Spinach with sesame dressing

 
 
This week's Wednesday with Donna Hay recipe was chosen by Kayte from Modern Classic Book I - spinach with sesame dressing.
 
I used baby spinach instead of spinach, halved the recipe and used Shao Xing Rice Wine rather than mirin (because that is what I had).  My sauce ended up being rather chunky with the ground sesame seeds - hmmm, the photo in the book shows the sauce as being quite liquid.
 
In any event, I liked it - not enough to make it again (I found the rice wine had a slightly peculiar flavour to my palate), but enough to eat it.
 
To see what Kayte, Margaret, Chaya and Sarah thought, visit their sites.
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6 comments:

  1. ChayaJuly 24, 2013 at 11:06 AM

    I plan to make this for lunch tomorrow. Yours is tempting me now. I am ready to go to the kitchen and make it but I will wait.

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  2. MargaretJuly 31, 2013 at 1:20 PM

    Makes we wish I liked COOKED spinach.

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  3. KariJuly 31, 2013 at 7:05 PM

    Salads with baby spinach are amongst my favourites so this looks and sounds good to me :)

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  4. Lorraine @ Not Quite NigellaJuly 31, 2013 at 10:59 PM

    I wonder if it would be better with the mirin-rice wine is so strongly flavoured isn't it?

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  5. SarahAugust 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM

    I didn't have any mirin either so I used balsamic vinegar. And no way of grinding up the sesame seeds, so I just mixed them in. And it tasted great.

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  6. KayteSeptember 18, 2013 at 12:21 AM

    Your dressing looks really good, I think I needed mine thicker and you said yours needed to be thinner...between the two of us we would have a perfect version! We did like this one quite a lot regardless.

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