🇯🇵 Japanese Vegetarian

Cucumber Sunomono

Name: Cucumber Sunomono
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 1/2, thinly sliced Garlic; 3 tbsp Olive Oil; 3 Cucumber; 1, juiced Rice Vinegar; handful, torn Shiso Leaves; 1 tbsp Toasted Sesame Seeds

🇯🇵 Japanese

A bright, herb-packed japanese salad where cucumber meets a punchy dressing — fresh, loud and addictive. 15 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 15 min Cook 0 min Serves 2 Easy

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Garlic1/2, thinly sliced
Olive Oil3 tbsp
Cucumber3
Rice Vinegar1, juiced
Shiso Leaveshandful, torn
Toasted Sesame Seeds1 tbsp

Instructions

1
Whisk the rice vinegar juice with the olive oil, salt and pepper for a bright, simple dressing.
2
Prepare the cucumber — slice, shred or cube it so every forkful gets some.
3
Toss the cucumber with the garlic, shiso leaves and the dressing just before serving.
4
Let it sit 5 minutes so the flavours marry, then taste and add another squeeze of rice vinegar if it needs lift.

Chef's tip

For deeper flavour, toast the white pepper in the oil before adding anything wet.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Addictive Japanese Pickled Cucumbers with Ginger! · on YouTube