Korean food is all about side dishes! Here’s a lightly seasoned spinach dish that I’m rather partial to eat!
Sesame Seasoned Spinach! SSS! Like the KKK but fortified with iron?
Ingredients:
1 bunch thingie of spinach
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
1 tablespoon of sesame seed oil
1/2 teaspoon of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of korean red pepper flakes (if using crushed red pepper, just use a dash or 2)
The Korean red pepper flakes are actually kinda sweet. It’s a sweet heat, not a hot hot burninating heat. So if you are only going to use normal crushed red peppers, definitely use less. (: Less is more!
Of course, wash and clip off the dead ends of zee spinach! (:
First, the sauce!
Grab a large mixing bowl.
Add 1 tablespoon of sesame seed oil
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon of brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon of korean red pepper flakes
Throw the spinach into a pot of boiling water. It’s okay to pile it on there. (: You can fold it into the water.
Like so!
It should only take about 2 or 3 minutes for the spinach to be ready. Any longer and they become too mushy.
Once it looks like this, turn off the heat and take the sukka out of the water!
Rinse in cold water!
Drain!
Swish and mix it around in the sauce.
Plate and sprinkle a little sesame seeds on that mofo!
Such a great leetle side dish full of vitamin yum!
2 Comments for Sesame Seasoned Spinach
Gwen | August 18, 2008 at 9:57 am
keebot | August 18, 2008 at 10:26 am
Oooo.. That’s a good idea!
I shall have to try that.
simple! me like!
I usually cook my spinach in a covered skillet and let it steam itself with just a little oil/garlic in the pan. I wonder if you could do the same thing with starting the sauce in the skillet rather then mixing at the end? intriguing…
geez kee, 3 in a row. you’re making us look like slackers here!