Cucumber Sunomono Revisited
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 people 1x
- Category: side
- Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups japanese cucumbers (sliced thin. i used a mandolin; if you can’t find japanese cucumbers try to use any seedless)
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar ( the brand i used is kikkoman)
- 1 tablespoons white sugar ( if you dont like things to be sweet use half or less)
- 1.5 tablespoons mentsuyu (if using store bought ensure concentrates are diluted to 1:1)
- sesame seeds (toasted as a garnish)
Instructions
- Slice cucumbers using a mandolin or as thin as possible
- Put into a bowl, sprinkle liberally with salt, massage in salt with hands and let sit for at least 10 minutes.
- After it has sat with the salt, squeeze cucumber slices to remove all water, repeat several times until no more water comes out.
- Then rinse the cucumbers with water to get some of the salt out; and squeeze one more time or until no more water pools in the bottom of the bowl.
- Mix vinegar, sugar and mentsuyu with the cucumber and serve.
Find it online: https://www.alldayieat.com/recipe/cucumber-sunomono-revisited/