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Creamy Sesame-Ginger Salad Dressing

This is one wonderful salad dressing. A real keeper.
This Creamy Sesame-Ginger Dressing is a Samin Nosrat recipe from The New York Times. You can find the original recipe here. Nosrat is the gifted author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an exceptional cookbook that should be in everyone’s collection. 
This recipe caught my attention because of its carefully-crafted blend of interesting ingredients. You’ve got quite a bit of white miso, rice vinegar, honey, a good pop of sesame oil and quite a bit of fresh ginger in this dressing. How interesting is that?
I enjoyed this dressing on a simple salad of romaine, beautiful heirloom tomatoes from my farmer’s market haul,  and purple cabbage (and a few beautiful wax beans) but it would be wonderful on a cabbage coleslaw.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time5 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Servings: 1 ½ cups
Author: Samin Nosrat

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice
  • ¼ cup seasoned rice vinegar
  • 5 Tbsp white miso
  • 2 Tbsp honey
  • 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
  • 6 cloves garlic thinly-sliced
  • 1 3-inch piece fresh ginger peeled and thinly-sliced
  • 1 fresh jalapeno stemmed and seeded
  • ½ cup avocado oil
  • Kosher salt to taste

Instructions

  • Combine all the ingredients, except the oil, in a deep jar. Using an immersion blender, blend the ingredients until smooth.
  • With the immersion blender running, drizzle the oil into the mixture and blend until the mixture is emulsified.
  • Adjust seasonings (salt and lemon juice and vinegar) to your taste.