Have you ever had a simple side salad at a casual, Japanese restaurant in America? If you answered yes, then you’ve probably had a version of the dressing that I am making here. I’ve never worked in such a restaurant, so I don’t know if this is how the real deal is made, but it tastes delicious, only has a handful of ingredients, requires no cooking and is very easy to make.

This dressing is best friends with a grilled salmon salad, but some other uses are raw cucumber, rice, any kind of salad greens, shaved carrots, grilled salmon, raw or cooked tuna, really any fish or thinly sliced/shaved vegetables now that I think about it, be creative.

*The use of miso paste in this dressing is totally optional, so if you have some lying around, through it in for a little more complexity.

*Whenever you are dealing with ginger and will be blending it for the recipe, be sure to slice it in thin rounds. The fibers of ginger run lengthwise and can be quite strong, resulting in little “hairs” of ginger throughout whatever it is your making. By making thin slices across the fibers you can easily avoid that.