Name: Japanese Carrot Ginger Dressing
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Carrot (peeled and diced); ¼ cup Onion (sweet); 2 tbsp Ginger (peeled); 2 tbsp Miso paste; 1 tbsp Sugar; ¾ cup Vegetable oil; 1 clove Garlic (optional)

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Hi, readers! If you have been searching for the ginger dressing recipe that Japanese hibachi restaurants serve, you are in luck! This is that amazingly delicious ginger dressing that you love. When served with crisp iceberg lettuce, this ginger dressing turns a plain salad into the star of the show!

As you have guessed, this ginger dressing have ginger in it, but actually the main ingredient for this recipe is carrots. Carrots add body to the ginger dressing, as well as the slight sweetness and the beautiful orange color. The carrots are pureed together with other ingredients, which yields thick, gritty texture.

The only equipment you need to make this carrot ginger dressing is a blender or a food processor. This carrot ginger dressing is super easy and quick to make, but will bring the hibachi restaurant experience right to your dinner table!

Ingredients

1 cup Carrot, peeled and diced
1/4 cup Onion, sweet
2 tbsp Ginger, peeled
2 tbsp Miso paste or soy sauce
1 tbsp Sugar
1/4 cup Vinegar
3/4 cup Oil, vegetable
1 clove Garlic (optional)

Instructions

First, prepare the ingredients. Carrot, giner, onion and garlic need to be peeled and diced small enough that the blender can puree them easily.

Peel the carrot with a peeler and dice it into 1 inch cubes. You can also use 1 cup of shredded carrots that you can buy at the grocery store instead. For the ginger, I used 2 thumb-sized ginger roots and peeled them with a peeler. Peel and cut the onion into about 1 inch squares, then soak them in a bowl filled with ice water to remove the spiciness. The raw onion can be quite spicy, but if you soak them in ice water for 30 minutes, the flavor will become more mild.

This recipe calls for 1 clove of garlic to make this Japanese ginger dressing. While the garlic adds lots of flavor and tastes really good, the raw garlic does tend to make your breath stinky for a while afterwards. So, if that will be an issue for you, please omit it.

Add all the prepped ingredients to the blender or the food processor.

The next ingredient that you need to add to the blender is 2 tbsp of miso paste. Miso paste is a fermented soy bean paste that is widely used in Japanese cuisine. As you’ve probably guessed, it is mostly used to make miso soup. I bought this white miso paste at an Asian grocery store, since I could not find it at my local grocery store. If you cannot find the miso paste at the stores near you, you can substitute it with 2 tbsp of soy sauce instead.

Then, add 3/4 cup of oil, 1/4 cup of vinegar and 1 tbsp of sugar to the blender. For the oil used in this ginger dressing, it is best to use vegetable or canola oil that does not have much flavor of its own. You could use olive oil, but it will add some extra flavor to the dressing.

Once all the ingredients are in the blender, puree them until smooth. It took less than a minute for my blender to create this delicious Japanese carrot ginger dressing.

This carrot ginger dressing will add tons of sweet gingery flavor to any leafy salad. Refrigerate any leftover dressing and it will be safe to enjoy it for a week.

If you like salads, you might also enjoy this sweet cranberry apple coleslaw. Check out my Pinterest page and follow on Instagram for more delicious recipes!

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