JAPANESE CABBAGE SALAD

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Not many raw vegetable are eaten in Japan. This is a lightly cooked salad, which is considered far more digestible. From "Japanese Vegetarian Cooking", by Lesley Downer.

Provided by zeldaz51

Categories     Vegetable

Time 25m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

1/4 lb cabbage
1/4 lb carrot
1/4 lb green beans
salt
2 tablespoons white sesame seeds (or 1 tbsp. sesame paste)
1/2 lb tofu, drained
2 teaspoons mirin (or 1 tsp. sugar or honey)
1/2 teaspoon salt
toasted sesame seeds

Steps:

  • Wash and trim the vegetables. Shred the cabbage and cut the carrots into fine julienne strips. Cut the green beans diagonally into thin strips. Parboil the cabbage for a few seconds in a large pot of lightly salted, rapidly boiling water; remove from the water, rinse immediately in cold water, drain, and pat dry. Parboil the carrots and the green beans separately in the same way, then rinse and pat dry.
  • Lightly toast the sesame seeds for the dressing and grind to a paste, or use ready-made sesame paste. Cream in the tofu and mirin and season to taste with a little salt.
  • Just before serving, fold the vegetables into the dressing. Serve small mounds of the salad in deep pottery bowls of a contrasting color and sprinkle with a few sesame seeds to garnish.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 90, Fat 4.5, SaturatedFat 0.7, Sodium 337.6, Carbohydrate 8.6, Fiber 2.9, Sugar 3.6, Protein 5.8

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