Japanese Restaurant-Style Salad #recipe by @LeslieKarst

 

I have no idea if they serve the dish in Japan, but this delicious salad is commonly found in Japanese restaurants here in the States. It’s a simple green salad tossed with an Asian-inspired mayonnaise dressing, and is something I happen to love. So some years back, I decided to reverse-engineer the recipe, and here’s what I came up with.

 

The amounts in this recipe make enough dressing for a very large salad—I made one for a party, big enough to feed 10 people. But whatever you don’t use can be stored in the fridge for later use. Simply thin it again with a bit more milk, if you find that it’s thickened after several days.

Japanese Restaurant-Style Salad

Ingredients for Salad

(these are merely a suggestion—use whatever and how many ingredients you like)

romaine or other green-leaf lettuce, ripped into bite-size pieces

sliced tomatoes

cucumber chunks

sliced avocado

green onions or chives

crumbled pretzels, nuts, croutons, or whatever crunchy addition strikes your fancy

Ingredients for Dressing

(makes a little over ½ cup)

½ cup mayonnaise

1 tablespoon roasted sesame oil

2 teaspoons soy sauce

1-2 teaspoons sugar (to taste)

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

2 teaspoons milk (not pictured)

Directions

Mix all the dressing ingredients together, except the milk. 

 

 

mayonnaise and sesame oil

 

 

soy sauce

 

pepper

 

sugar

Then add the milk and mix it in well, to thin the dressing.

 

Place all the salad ingredients into a large bowl,

 

 

 

 

then toss with the dressing. Don’t overdress the salad; if it’s a salad for 4 people, a third of the dressing should suffice.

 

Enjoy!

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The daughter of a law professor and a potter, Leslie Karst learned early, during family dinner conversations, the value of both careful analysis and the arts—ideal ingredients for a mystery story. Putting this early education to good use, she now writes the Lefty Award-nominated Sally Solari Mysteries, a culinary series set in Santa Cruz, California.

An ex-lawyer like her sleuth, Leslie also has degrees in English literature and the culinary arts. She and her wife and their Jack Russell mix split their time between Santa Cruz and Hilo, Hawai‘i.

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