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Welcome to food hacks.

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I'm Claire Lower.

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And today I'm going to show you
how to recreate one of my favorite salad

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dressings in the comfort of your own home.

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I am lowkey obsessed with the side salads
you get a Japanese restaurant's

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not because I feel the need
to keep my body healthy with leafy greens,

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but because I love that salad dressing.

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The key,
as it turns out, to making a dupe at home

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is to use not fresh ginger,
but pickled stuff.

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In addition
to providing that spicy ginger flavor.

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Pickled ginger also has sugar and acid,
which gives your dressing the tang

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and sweetness that it needs.

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You can find pickled ginger
at pretty much any Asian grocery store

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and at a lot of conventional American
grocery stores to make this dressing.

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You will need three ingredients

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a quarter cup of toasted sesame oil

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a tablespoon of soy sauce,

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and 50 grams of pickled sushi ginger.

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All you have to do

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dump everything into a tall

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jar or glass or whatever

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this thing is to

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and then just hit it
with an immersion blender.

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If you don't have an immersion blender,
you can also use a regular blender.

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Just tuck it in there and blend it right
or stick that right down in there.

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And although

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it is not plugged in.

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This is a different one
than I used to have so Zari,

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it was two buttons at the same time.

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Male oh.

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If there's some chunks

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stuck there, try to knock them out.

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Good.

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Out of their area.

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Hit it one more time. Oh,

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all right.

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That's it.

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That is delicious.

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Once you've blended your dressing
nice and smooth, you can pour it

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over a pile of greens or use it
as a dipping sauce for dumplings.

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Thanks for joining me
on this culinary adventure

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and don't forget to keep

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following Lifehacker for more tips
and tricks on how to do everything better.