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Yagisawa Gomadare Sesame & Dashi Sauce

Yagisawa Gomadare Sesame & Dashi Sauce

Sale price£19.00
Iwate Prefecture, Japan 360ml ☆ Staff Choice ☆

What sets this gomadare apart is who makes it: a soy-sauce house of more than two hundred years, building the sauce on its own soy, its own mirin and a real kombu-and-bonito dashi rather than a simply sweetened paste. That foundation is why it tastes of more than sesame alone — there's salt, depth and a long savoury finish underneath the nuttiness.
Yagisawa Gomadare Sesame & Dashi Sauce
Yagisawa Gomadare Sesame & Dashi Sauce Sale price£19.00

Gomadare is Japan's creamy sesame sauce — goma for sesame, dare for sauce — built around white sesame paste and a proper dashi. This one is nutty and rounded, sweet and savoury at once, with the toasted depth of sesame over a base of soy, mirin and a kombu-and-bonito stock, loosened with rice vinegar and lifted by a little ginger and chilli. Creamy but pourable rather than thick.

Its traditional home is shabu-shabu, the hot pot where thin slices of meat and vegetables are swirled through simmering stock and then dipped — but it's far more versatile than that. Spoon it over steamed or grilled vegetables (asparagus, broccoli, green beans, leeks), toss it through cold udon or soba, use it to dress a salad or marinate chicken, or stir a little into mayonnaise. Keep at room temperature unopened; refrigerate once opened.

Producer Yagisawa (Yagisawa Shoten) has brewed in Rikuzentakata, on the coast of Iwate in northern Japan, since 1807, making soy sauce, miso and dashi. The town was largely destroyed by the tsunami of March 2011 and the brewery's buildings were washed away entirely; the company rebuilt and resumed production, and its soy sauce and sauces are once again the foundation of everything it makes.

Ingredients Soy sauce (soybeans, wheat, salt), mirin (rice, rice koji, rice shochu), sesame paste, rice vinegar, kombu dashi stock, water, sugar, apple purée, sesame oil, salt, sake, ginger paste, red chilli, dried bonito (katsuobushi) powder.

Allergens: Soya, Wheat (Gluten), Sesame, Fish