It's best to pair freshly cooked, hot noodles with a side of cold dishes to balance the flavors.

Talking about cold dishes, this article shares a delicious cold spinach salad.

The presentation looks pretty good, it looks appetizing, but the taste is still important becauseThis recipe was learned from a chef at a restaurant.

As for the preparation, it's a simple side dish, so the process is very easy.

From a nutritional perspective, spinach is rich in folic acid, vitamin A, potassium and manganese, and also contains a lot of vitamin C, iron, vitamin B2, niacin, vitamin B2, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, copper.

It also has the effects of dehumidifying, promoting intestinal movement, cleansing and anti-aging.

Cold Spinach

Cold Ingredients

Two bunches of spinach, a little salt (when blanching), 1 tablespoon of Korean chili sauce (I bought this online), 1/2 tablespoon of chili powder, 1/2 tablespoon of minced garlic, a few chopped green onions, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 0.3 sugar, 1/2 tablespoon of sesame oil, 1/2 tablespoon of flower pepper oil, sesame seeds, salt, a few drops of mustard oil.

Cooking Process

First step: Remove the roots and stems of the spinach, and wash it thoroughly.

Here we don't cut it into pieces, so when removing it, keep the roots.

Cut it into something like this. Then wash it twice, and drain the water.

Second step: Boil water in a pot, add a little salt.

Adding salt can help the spinach taste better and maintain its green color for a longer time.

When the water boils, put the spinach in, blanch it for 30 seconds.

You can just take the spinach out when it's cooked, the blanching time of 10 seconds or 1 minute depends on your preference.

Immediately after blanching, pour cold water over it to completely cool the spinach.

Third step: Squeeze out the water from the spinach, cut it into smaller pieces, and put it in a bowl to spread it out.

Here we emphasize that when squeezing out the water from the spinach, don't squeeze it into a ball, just squeeze the water along the long stems of the spinach, this will make the dish look better.

Next, let's add the seasonings according to the cold ingredients, add the appropriate amount of Korean chili sauce, chili powder, minced garlic, sesame oil, vinegar, mustard oil, a little white sugar, and appropriate salt, and a few drops of mustard oil.

Then add some chopped green onions and sesame seeds, adding some chopped peanuts is also very fragrant.

A reminder: when adding seasonings, first make a space in the bowl to concentrate all the seasonings and stir them evenly.

Fourth step: Finished, mix everything together.

It can basically be done in 10 minutes, it's sour and spicy, and very refreshing.

If you can't eat spicy food, you can omit it.

Of course, besides spinach, we can also add vermicelli, shredded carrots, wheat gluten strips, colorful and beautiful, to make it a very beautiful dish.

Also, if you don't use chili sauce and chili powder, you can use Lao Gan Ma and oil splashed chili, which also tastes great.

Okay, that's the end of this dish today. If you think this dish is made well, please like it if you like it!