オクラのゴマ和え (Okra dressed in sesame sauce)

It's too hot to go out in the day time now in Philippines...
At times like this, eat okra and recover!
It's said eating okra helps to releive summer lethargy.

This is very popular dish in Japan.
People uaually eat this in summer:)



[Recipe]

Ingredients for 2 people:

6 pieces of okra
3 big spoons of white sesame
1 big spoon of めんつゆ(Mentsuyu: noodle sauce)
1/2 small spoon of sugar

1. Boil okra until cooked through. Drain off hot water and cool them down.
2. Roast sesame in a pan and bray them in a mortar (If you don't have a mortar, you can use mill. If you use mill, only 1 second is enough to mill sesame).
You want to bray sesame like the picture below.



3. Remove caps from okra and cut them into one-bite size and mix them with sesame, Mentsuyu and sugar. Then it's ready to eat!



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