Le Grand Buffet Chinese Salad Dressing

An online recipe with instructions for making mayonnaise style Chinese salad dressing that includes sherry, mustard, soy sauce and both sesame oil and peanut oil.

Ingredients

- 1 (1/2 inch) piece of fresh ginger root, peeled
- 1/4 cup of dry sherry
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons of prepared mustard (not dry mustard)
- 2 teaspoons of sugar
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1/2 cup of peanut oil
- 1/2 cup of sesame oil
- 2 to 4 tablespoons of soy sauce

Instructions

Marinate the peeled ginger root ij the sherry for several hours or overnight.

Beat the egg yolks with the mustard. Add the sugar and lemon juice and mix until the sugar is dissolved.

Mix the two oils together

Add the oils in a thin stream to the egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly until thick and sooth.

remove the ginger root from the sheerry and add the sherry to the egg yolk mixture alonng with the soy sauce.