16 August 2008

Ohitashi

For two people

Ingredients
1 bunch English spinach, washed and trimmed. Not silver beet
water
sesame oil
sesame seeds

Method
Toast the sesame seeds in a dry frypan until they start to pop and remove from the pan to cool.
Boil the water in a medium saucepan.
Dunk the spinach - keep it in the water until the leaves have wilted and the bulk of the leaves is reduced. Less than 2 minutes.

Place half the spinach onto a japanese bamboo sushi mat. The final shape you're after is like a little cup about 2cm in diameter, maybe 6 cm tall.
Roll the spinach in the bamboo mat and squeeze out excess moisture.

Arrange the little cup of spinach in a bowl, one per person and dress it with the sesame oil, just a teaspoon or so and the toasted sesame seeds.

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