Awww yisss! Japanese Ginger Dressing Recipe!

So, Germany doesn't really have Americanized Hibachi-style Japanese restaurants. This is one of those little things that you forget to consider while you are caught up in moving but you fall to your knees and scream "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" to the heavens when you remember. Cause let me tell you something, neffew...I freaking love me some Japanese Hibachi Restaurant Ginger Dressing. 

 

So, bereft of all things gingery and Japanese and delicious here in the "winter wonderland" of Germany, I set out to find a recipe that would replicate that deliciousness that can only be found at a shrimp-slinging, fire-exploding restaurant in 'Murica.

 

And I found it.

 

This dressing...it cannot be described. To quote Yo Gabba Gabba: It is "a party in my tummy. So yummy! So yummy!"  So yummy, indeed.

 

• 1/2 cup minced onion
• 1/2 cup peanut oil
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
• 2 tablespoons minced celery
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 4 teaspoons soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

Directions:

1. Combine all of that stuff together in a bowl and stir it.
2. Throw that junk in a blender and blend it for about 30 seconds. Make sure the ginger is nice and ground up.
3. Don't be eating it right away! Gah, I know that it is hard to wait but that stuff has to marinate and let the deliciousness ferment or something, so stick it in the fridge in a tupperware bowl for AT LEAST 24 hours! Wait 30 hours if you can.
4. ENJOY! Pour that stuff on some lettuce after the kids and the men go to bed (cause I know that I am not sharing mine with ANYONE!) and thank me later.