Japanese Green Beans
½ cup soy or tamari sauce
¼ cup sesame seeds
2 TBL sugar
½ pound green beans
Roast seeds on the stovetop or in oven at 400 degrees (stir often to avoid burning). Smash seeds with spoon or blend in a food processor to make a mortar paste.
Mix sugar, soy sauce and seeds.
Toss with steamed string beans and serve.
Rice Balls
2 Cups Japanese sticky rice
Black sesame seeds
Salt
Water
Cook sticky rice according to directions. Let cool a bit. Dip your hands in water, then dip your hands in salt (lightly), take small handful of rice and roll into small meatball size. Roll in sesame seeds. Let cool on cookie sheet or wax paper.
Note: make sure you wet your hands each time before you roll into ball-rice will be too sticky to form if you don’t.
Note: The Japanese also put dates and other fruits in the center, and then roll the rice around the fruit.
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