Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, japanese cucumber salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Japanese cucumber salad is supposed to be sweet!!! Marinated in vinegar, sugar, salt, and soy sauce, this sweet & sour cucumber salad makes a perfect side dish. Japanese Cucumber Salad (Sunomono). this link is to an external site that may or may not meet.
Japanese Cucumber Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Japanese Cucumber Salad is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have japanese cucumber salad using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese Cucumber Salad:
- Prepare 2 large cucumbers
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 4 tsp granulated sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp grated or minced ginger.
- Get 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 5 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- Take sesame seeds
Japanese cucumbers are much skinnier than American ones. They have much less seeds (or at least much smaller seeds) and thinner skin. What I didn't realize at the time is how universal this style of salad is. Years later, I visited my half-Japanese best friend at her house, and she, just like my mom.
Steps to make Japanese Cucumber Salad:
- Using a vegetable peeler strip your cucumber in 4 strips and slice off the ends and then cut in half.
1. Slice the cucumbers into very thin strips. Then place in a bowl and sprinkle with salt, and stir well. Set aside until needed. - In a small bowl combine the sugar, ginger, soy sauce and vinegar. Whisk together until well all combined.
- After about 5 minutes of the cucumbers marinating in the salt, squeeze the excess liquid out of them using your hands or a clean tea towel.
- Toss the cucumbers with the sauce and stir well. Place in the fridge to chill for 1 hour before serving.
- Just before serving sprinkle with some sesame seeds.
This Japanese cucumber salad, called sunomono, is one of the simplest summer salads. All it takes is cucumbers, vinegar, oil, ginger, and lemongrass to start the conversation. If using English or regular cucumbers, they need to be peeled, cut lengthwise, seeded and sliced into thin half moons. Do you like eating asian food? Today I have the cucumber salad for you.
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