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Preview: Cucumber Sunomono Saladby Dawn T in Rouxbe Videos Thinly sliced cucumbers tossed with rice wine vinegar, mirin and chili flakes. This Asian inspired dish is a nice garnish, or light salad.
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Step 1: Making the Salad
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To make the salad, mix together the rice wine vinegar, mirin, sugar, salt and chili flakes.
To serve strain the cucumbers and serve as a garnish or small salad.
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Notes
This is actually better the next day, so feel free to make this the day before. Also if you want it more spicy, heat the dressing up, this will bring out the heat from the chiles. Just allow the dressing to cool completely before adding the cucumbers.
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Did it now in just 10 min !
I recommend to try it with sesam seeds. Delicious !
barcelona_spain
Great salad. I second the sesame seeds.
This is similar to a classic Midwestern salad (rural Illinois) made with red wine vinegar. In that salad, I love to add onions to the mix. I assume they would be a good choice here too.
seoul
I came across news of Pepsi's latest flavor: Ice Cucumber!
I would definitely give it a try. Cola is refreshing. Cucumbers are refreshing. Combined it has potential. Released yesterday (and only in Japan for a limited time) it's been doing brisk business so other people must have followed the same logic that I have.
Link to their press release AND WITH PHOTO (post Google translation):
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This took me about 2 seconds to put together and my family loved it. Thanks!
This was quite a recipe! Thank you Rouxbe so much for providing it. I made it twice for separate groups of diners last week, and they all liked it.
1) I deviated a bit from the recipe: I substituted distilled white vinegar in place of rice wine vinegar because I had run out of the latter and no time to go get more. I also added 1 Tbl of sesame oil which provided a really nice nuttiness, and added sliced radishes for color. (Although the radishes lost their red after soaking in the liquid overnight.)
2) This recipe taught me a cooking fundamental: Always, always use the safety shield when slicing on a mandolin! See my middle finger? See that flesh wound on the tip of it? While I like to put something of myself in my dishes, I try not to practice that literally. I'm pretty sure my body's now rebuilt that, ohhh, tablespoon or three of blood I lost.
Despite my attack of dumb, or perhaps because of it, this is a recipe I won't forget! I plan on making this many more times. I'll probably add thin-sliced red onion next time.
...and I wonn't blow off the mandolin safety guard.
Can be cucumbers be substituted by courgettes ?
Thank you
You know I am not quite sure about courgettes. Perhaps they would work. They would sure be pretty. Next time I make this I will give it a try. If you try it please let me know if it worked for you.
Tried this salad with courgettes. I do not know how the original salad with cucumbers tastes, so can not tell the difference, but I liked main with courgettes. I kept it for 5 hours in the fridge and courgettes were crunchy and a little bit spicy. Thanks for the great site !
I found the salad to be a wonderful topping for grilled fish and chicken.
I made this but added a little ginger, sliced onion, grated carrot and just before serving added 1 cup of cooked shrimp