How to Make Boiled Spinach with Soy Sauce Dressing

How to Make Boiled Spinach with Soy Sauce Dressing

Welcome to Itadakimasu Recipe, a Japanese cooking channel! Today, I’ll show you how to make Japanese spinach ohitashi. I’ll walk you through how to make the flavorful sauce, prepare the spinach, and properly cook and chill it. Enjoy a taste of Japanese cuisine! Please share it if you make it!

[Related video]
How to make Japanese soup stock (Dashi).

[Timecode]
0:00 I’ll show you how to make the dashi broth for the ohitashi.
1:56 When preparing the spinach, make a cross-cut at the base of the stems where they meet the roots.
2:52 To cook the spinach, bring a pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the roots for 10 seconds, then add the rest and cook for 1 minute.
3:55 Once the spinach is cooked, cool it down in ice water.
4:54 Squeeze out the excess water from the spinach.
5:41 Cut the spinach into 3cm lengths.
6:01 Next, soak the spinach in the soup stock sauce and chill in the refrigerator.
6:52 Finally, plate the spinach and say “Itadakimasu” to give thanks to everyone involved in bringing the food to your table.

[Ingredients]
300ml dashi broth (Japanese soup stock)
3 tbsp sake
1 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp soy sauce
A pinch of salt
300g spinach

[Preparation]
1. To make the soup stock sauce, combine the dashi broth, sake, mirin, soy sauce, and salt in a pan and heat it up. Once it comes to a boil, turn off the heat and let it cool down in the fridge.
2. Make a cross-cut at the base of the spinach stems where they meet the roots.
3. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the roots for 10 seconds. Add the rest of the spinach and cook for 1 minute.
4. Once cooked, cool the spinach in ice water.
5. Squeeze out the excess water from the spinach.
6. Cut the spinach into 3cm lengths.
7. Soak the spinach in the soup stock sauce and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

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