Benihana Ginger Salad Dressing @ Bake It With Love (2024)

This popular Benihana Ginger Salad Dressing featured at Benihana and other Japanese steakhouses is super easy to make at home! It's a delightfully light, creamy, refreshing salad dressing with a robust fresh ginger taste!

If you love Benihana, you'll love my Hibachi Mustard Sauce and Ginger Dipping Sauce!

Asian Ginger Salad Dressing Recipe

Being from the West Coast originally, my husband and I have always been fans of Benihana hibachi grill restaurants and their tantalizing flavors.

One of our favorite things to enjoy on a more regular basis than, say, surf n' turf every night is a salad served up with the tangy signature, house ginger salad dressing recipe that Benihana is known for ( and that's available for purchase at their restaurant locations ).

Honestly, I think my husband enjoys eating dinner at Benihana's just so he can have the salad dressing and dipping sauces! It's good that he noticed the days when the Benihana website had their recipes shared.

I ended up making this creamy ginger salad dressing frequently, which is a great thing! Otherwise, I would have spent a fortune buying the dressing whenever I passed by a Benihana location!! Seriously, for a time, I wondered how long until we would have this orange dressing running in our veins!

If you have never had this dressing, do yourself a favor and make it as soon as possible. You need this dressing! You also need to find a great Japanese steakhouse just to watch their chefs put on a show of flying knives exploding volcano onion towers, and one of our recent treats was to have our daughters eggs (for the hibachi fried rice) shaped as a rooster!!

🥘 Ingredients

The ingredients needed for this easy dressing recipe include peanut oil, onion, rice wine vinegar, water, ginger, celery, soy sauce, ketchup ( or tomato paste ), sugar, lemon juice, and salt & pepper to taste.

Be sure to use a good Asian rice wine vinegar that is clear in appearance. Substituting white vinegar is not suggested. You'll need the new bottle of rice wine vinegar anyway, so you can make this at home all the time 🙂

🔪 How To Make Ginger Salad Dressing

Add all of the ingredients to a blender or food processor and blend until smooth, this only takes 45 seconds to about a minute. Transfer to an air-tight storage container or jar and refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.

*The flavors combine better after refrigerating, and the dressing is best on the second and third day after being mixed.

**Keep refrigerated and stored in an airtight container. The dressing will keep refrigerated for up to one week.

(Original Note) Here, I share a very close approximation to the recipe that was available on the Benihana website at one point in time. I am making it from memory, and it very well may be the correct version as shared by Benihana webmasters themselves. If I can ever find the saved recipe in all of my old files, I can verify the version later.

(Updated Note below 1/2020).

*Note that the original recipe calls for tomato paste, but in such a small quantity, it is much easier to use ketchup rather than open a can of tomato paste. The difference is negligible, but this officially notes my modification to the original recipe from Benihana.

Either way, this salad dressing is addictive and delicious!

Enjoy!

If you love Benihana, Kyoto, or Kobe's Japanese steakhouse hibachi ( teppanyaki ) grilled foods, you'll love my hibachi steak and shrimp dinner, hibachi vegetables, hibachi noodles, hibachi fried rice, and yum yum sauce!

Check out my Hibachi Recipe index page for a complete list of these fabulous grilled foods that are wonderful recipes to make with your Blackstone grill, too!

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