This is a traditional Japanese side dish which is called “Goma-Ae” in Japanese. The dish dresses boiled fresh green beans with sweet sesame dressing. The sesame dressing contains ground white sesame, soy sauce and sugar. It is a healthy, delicious, easy and very quick to prepare dish.
In Japan we usually use a traditional Japanese mortar and pestle for grinding white sesame. Ground sesame makes the dish very flavorful and it is easy to eat. If you have a spice grinder, you can use it. If you don’t have either a spice grinder or a mortar and pestle you can put sesame seeds in a zipper bag and beat them with a rolling pin until they are ground.
The basic arrangement for many Japanese meals is called “Ichi-juu, San-sai,” which consists of one bowl of cooked rice, one kind of soup and three vegetables or fish small portion dishes. So this dish is a very common dish in the Japanese diet.
When you want to add a vegetable dish to your meal or in your lunch box, this is a great choice. Also, you can use any kind of vegetable with this dressing, such as boiled spinach, boiled carrot, boiled broccoli and so on.
The recipe is very quick. It takes only 10 minutes.
Mix the sauce ingredients, boil fresh green beans and dress.
You can store this dish in the refrigerator for 3 days. If you want to store longer, please dry the boiled green beans very well before dressing in the sauce and transfer them to a clean container. You can then keep it in the refrigerator for 5 days.
Enjoy this new healthy side dish!!
Ingredients (servings 2)
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¾~1 pound Fresh Green Beans
2 Tbsp. Soy Sauce REDUCED SODIUM [Gluten Free] (Organic)
2 Tbsp. Sugar
2 Tbsp. Mirin Sweet Cooking Rice Wine
4 Tbsp. White Roasted Sesame Seeds
Water for boiling green beans
1 Tbsp. Salt for boiling green beans
{Detailed and visual instructions can be found in the recipe PDF}: green-beans-with-sweet-sesame-dressing
{Recipe Video on YouTube}
October 21, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Simple and delicious
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October 21, 2016 at 1:57 pm
Indeed!! The sweet sesame flavor is great for any vegetables I am sure 🙂
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October 21, 2016 at 8:51 pm
Easy is always good in my book! We eat green beans all the time. 🙂
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October 21, 2016 at 9:10 pm
I was surprised that in the US people eat green beans a lot and there are many green beans recipes! This dish has crunchy texture and sweet taste. It is very delicious 🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 12:38 am
I love green beans.This recipe is so simple
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October 22, 2016 at 9:53 am
Yes it is very easy recipe!! So we can cook anytime we want to add green to our meal 🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 10:08 am
True.Thanks for sharing.
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October 22, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Thank you for the comments 🙂
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October 23, 2016 at 10:11 am
Pleasure is all mine.
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October 23, 2016 at 4:20 pm
🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 8:41 pm
I love green beans too and this sounds delicious! Thank you-
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October 22, 2016 at 8:46 pm
Thanks for your comment!! This has sweet-savory taste, great flavor of sesame seeds and crunchy texture. Yes, it is delicious 🙂
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October 23, 2016 at 2:04 am
Love the video demo!
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October 23, 2016 at 9:08 am
Oh Thank you !!! That is a great compliment for me 🙂
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October 25, 2016 at 11:05 am
So simple. I like the added touch of the sesame seeds. Mu husband is soon going to Japan for business… He will for sure enjoy the food!
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October 25, 2016 at 11:48 am
Yes, it is not too much work at all. So I often cook and always store it in the refrigerator.
Wow!! Good for him 🙂 I hope he likes Japanese food!
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October 25, 2016 at 11:53 am
He has been there before a few times now and yes, he loves Japanese food… I need to learn from you!
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October 25, 2016 at 12:43 pm
That’s so nice of you!! If you have questions for cooking Japanese food, I am always here for you 🙂
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October 25, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Thank you dear!
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October 25, 2016 at 12:57 pm
You are very welcome 🙂
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October 25, 2016 at 3:10 pm
So easy to make! Even I could make this 😀
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October 25, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Thank you for visiting my blog! I enjoyed reading your recent post 🙂 Yes, you can cook this I am sure 😀
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November 2, 2016 at 6:04 am
I grow green beans in excess each summer. I want to be sure to have enough to last until the next season begins to produce. Obviously we love green beans but it does get boring. This is a great recipe to add to my collection! Thank you for sharing!
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November 2, 2016 at 9:57 am
Thank you for the comment!! I am glad that this dish becomes one of your green beans recipes 🙂
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November 4, 2016 at 11:17 pm
This looks delicious!
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November 5, 2016 at 9:12 am
Thank you!!! Yes, it is very delicious and super easy to cook!! Busy-people-friendly 😀
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November 6, 2016 at 12:51 pm
I love this recipe!
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November 6, 2016 at 6:17 pm
Thank you! It is delicious 😉
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November 7, 2016 at 11:50 am
Green beans– we love them around here. Great to find a new fresh way to prepare them! thanks.
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November 7, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Thank you for the nice comment!! I hope you like it 🙂
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November 9, 2016 at 12:17 am
Very simple. And looks so healthy and delicious. I want to try it soon! 🙂 thanks for the recipe!
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November 9, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Thank you for the comment!! I try to make my Japanese recipes easy as much as I can so that people, who don’t even know about cooking, can cook. Also I use ingredients that we can get at many grocery shops, Asian markets and on Amazon in the US. There are many traditional processes to cook authentic Japanese food which is sometimes too much work even for Japanese. My recipes are not fancy food but easy, healthy and delicious Japanese dishes! I hope you like it 🙂
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November 10, 2016 at 12:30 am
I like it so much! I like Japanese food and it is my dream to go there someday. Recipes like these make me feel close to that dream. Thank you and I’m looking forward to more of your delicious recipes 🙂 🙂
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November 10, 2016 at 8:21 am
It is great to go to Japan at some point if you like Japanese food!! I hope your dream comes true 🙂 Thank you so much and I will keep trying to make easy-to-follow delicious Japanese recipes more 🙂
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November 15, 2016 at 5:30 pm
A very tasty dish & easy to make too! Thanks!
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November 15, 2016 at 7:28 pm
Yes! Very easy and delish 🙂 Thank you for the comment!!
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September 4, 2017 at 7:00 am
I don’t know how I missed this recipe but I’m glad I found it now! We love green beans and this way of making them looks delicious!
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September 4, 2017 at 10:30 am
This dish is very different from American green beans dishes. But I am sure many people will like it because the dish is sweet and very flavorful, and easy to cook!! Yum 🙂
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September 4, 2017 at 11:05 am
I do lots of different things with green beans because I normally get such a huge harvest. We have them all year from the garden. I love that I now have a new way to serve them!
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September 4, 2017 at 12:12 pm
Oh, that’s wonderful!!! 🙂
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