Recipe: Sesame-Miso Dressing

My version of the luscious salad dressing at a favorite Portland food cart

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Our current Portland food cart obsession is Bing Mi!, home of the jianbing, a spicy, savory, thoroughly satisfying, stuffed crepe-like Chinese street breakfast.

But I’m not here to tell you about the jianbing, even though it’s magnificent. I’m here to tell you about the dressing on Bing Mi’s cucumber salad.

The cucumber salad is tucked away in the Sides menu. It consists of pencil-thin cucumber spears (with the peel on) topped with a DELICIOUS sesame dressing and garnished with cilantro, scallions, and either toasted sesame seeds or sunflower seeds (I’ve had it served both ways). Cool…