Japanese Cucumber side dish - tsukudani きゅうりの佃煮

ayako yamamoto
ayako yamamoto @ayakoyamamoto
United Kingdom

This is a small side dish to go very well with rice dishes.
It can be stored for few days to 1wk in a fridge, nice to make bulk and have them as when you dish needs something extra to go with.

Japanese Cucumber side dish - tsukudani きゅうりの佃煮

This is a small side dish to go very well with rice dishes.
It can be stored for few days to 1wk in a fridge, nice to make bulk and have them as when you dish needs something extra to go with.

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Ingredients

  1. 1cucumber
  2. Little bit of salt to drain cucumber
  3. 1thumb sized ginger
  4. 1dried chilli
  5. 2 tablespoonssoy sauce
  6. Shredded kombu if available
  7. 2 tablespoonsrice vinegar (i am sure any CV vinegar will do but something mild fragranced one)
  8. 1 tablespoon of mirin
  9. 0.5 tablespoonssugar

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Slice cucumber with slicer, i am setting 2 on ikea’s slicer

  2. 2

    Put cucumber and little bit of salt in bowl and leave them for 10min or so to drain water

  3. 3

    Cut ginger into very thin shredded size

  4. 4

    Once water is coming out from cucumber, wash lightly if you are conscious of your salt intake otherwise just squeeze water out and put cucumber in a pan

  5. 5

    Put everything in a pan

  6. 6

    Cook them in high to medium heat, initially water comes out from cucumber but will gone fairly quickly, stay near the hob and reduce heat as water vapoured.

  7. 7

    Serve cold to accompany your rice dishes. Today I had it with my rice and fried egg!

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