Japanese Carrot Ginger Dressing | AAPI + Mental Health Month

[@ellarussell8769]

I was looking for ginger sesame dressing recipe but found this one and I'm enjoying a bowl of salad with it right now. It's delicious

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Hi Ella, Thanks so much for watching and making your own dressing. Glad you found it delish. It's definitely my go to recipe for that dressing. JOC did a great job. I tried 3 others and hers came out the best, had to share it with y'all!!!

[@isabel95]

I’ve tried many recipe for this dressing, but Nami's is phenomenally delicious. It’s absolutely. the best I would encourage people who are going to try this to be very accurate with their use of a scale and follow the amounts scrupulously. It’s so easy to use too much of any ingredient. I added black sesame seed which I've had served to me with it as Japanese restaurants.

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Hi Isabel, Thanks for watching! I'm so glad you agree 🙂 You bring up a very good point, "It's so easy to use too much of any ingredient". Oooh I like that extra visual touch with the black sesame seeds.

[@isabel95]

@@kalahealthandwellness Glad you liked the comment. Although my black sesame seeds have been in the freezer for several YEARS they still add a lot of flavor, .

[@kalahealthandwellness]

@@isabel95 Way to go refrigeration!

[@astroknotty]

FINALLLLYYY IVE successfully made this dressing. thank you!!! it was pretty tedious measuring everything out. i always go by eye. but this is perfect

[@kalahealthandwellness]

@@astroknotty Yessss! I see you know the struggle. I had to share this MOC recipe as a big thank you b/c I could never get it just right. Thanks for watching!

[@makeuplily]

Thank you so much I can't wait to make this!❤ just hot home from the gym and making a simple seasoned air fryer salmon with a huge romaine salad with radish and cucumber topped with your dressing recipe😊 I beyond excited to try this. Thank you!

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks so much for watching and being inspired to make it. Hope you had a great workout. It's a great recipe thanks to Just One Cookbook. It's sooo good! What a great paring!!! 🙌🙏💛

[@nccrchurchunusual]

Looks great

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks so much for watching! I hope you do try it. It's so worth getting a food scale not just for this recipe, but for other things like making a healthy plate of charcuterie for one, you can weigh the cheese and meats. Have a wonderful weekend!

[@silverlydz50]

Can’t wait to try!

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks for watching and being excited!

[@mikelugo8983]

Love this need to watch thanks

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks so much for watching and your good words!

[@jnova3328]

Great video, your recipe looks like it is delicious. Weighing everything is a great tip to ensure the consistency of the flavor. The only problem I would have with this recipe is that I don't cook with or eat sugar. I don't use any sugar substitutes, I only use honey occasionally, and on a rare occasion, I use maple syrup. Can I substitute either honey or maple syrup for the sugar?

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks so much for watching and your kind words! Like @isabel95 said in one of the comments of this video, "It’s so easy to use too much of any ingredient." That scale is so key for this dressing. Yes, I would say that would be a challenge if you don't use sugar. I think honey and maple syrup would change the flavor profile. I have not tried it, but I think it would taste different and delicious 🙂 Considering this recipe calls for 1.5 tbsp of sugar, that translates to 4.5 tsp of sugar. 1 tsp of sugar is 4 g of added sugar. So 1 tsp of table sugar has 18 g of added sugar. Interesting calculation that I just made... 1 tbsp of honey is 17 g of added sugar. There 3 tsp in 1 tbsp. So 1 tsp of honey is 5.7g of added sugar per teaspoon. Honey has definitely less added sugar per teaspoon than table sugar. That said for this recipe, you may need to use more than a tbsp of honey. I would maybe say, maybe a little over than 3 tbsp to get the sugar content close to the table sugar. Sorry, I had to geek out on this long reply, because you got me curious. Thank you for asking!!!

[@gelgit4605]

Very nice..

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Hope you try making it yourself, it’s so delicious!!!

[@Pinksalt8]

Just an fyi - you can use a dish or bowl on your scale to hold your vegetables- just tare it out to zero.

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks for watching 🙂Absolutely! For me, I like to save on using dishes, less to wash.

[@nildaacevedo2919]

What can I substitute miso with?

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Hi Nilda, Thanks for watching, after much thought, I don't believe there is a perfect substitute. Miso is salty, pasty and fermented. The best I could come up with is roasted garlic, fish sauce and kombucha. If you're plant-based, I would substitute fish sauce with a concentrated kombu broth. Thanks so much for asking, I may experiment with this myself.

[@Hyper12488]

I’ve seen some people use soya sauce instead of miso. I’ve used coconut aminos instead of the soya sauce. It tastes great.

[@dorothymarleau1087]

I like with more ginger

[@norysmelendez6175]

For your face is sabor?

[@huttonfly]

I don't understand why the recipe calls for 1 carrot or 135 grams but you have used 4 carrots? Even on the original recipe with the link you have provided, there is only 1 carrot shown. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this. They look like average sized carrots not the mini ones. Thank you otherwise!! Looks great.

[@kalahealthandwellness]

Thanks for watching and catching that! I think Nami wanted to help people who did not want to use the scale, but with the way carrots are being produced nowadays, there are inconsistencies in size.