きゅうりと油揚げの酢の物・Sweet and Sour Cucumber Salad
WONDERfull Nippon Cuisine Sweet and Sour Cucumber Salad We are making vinegared cucumber salad now. It’s my husband’s favorite, so I often make it when we need one more dish. Today’s menu is Sweet and Sour Cucumber and Fried Tofu Salad It’s an easy recipe. First, peel off the dark green part of the cucumber skin. You don’t have to be so precise. Make a striped cucumber. Vinegared dishes taste especially tasty during warm seasons. I agree. Now slice them normally Normally you’ll start cutting from the head. Cut off the tips. Leave a sample slice. That’s good. When I am cutting, the slices come flying towards me. That happens a lot. To avoid slices being in your way, Lay the blade a bit Cut at an angle instead of slicing vertically. Try it. The slices are getting bigger.
That’s right (laughs). That’s good. I’m not sure about now, bun in the old days, One of the exams at the culinary school was “cucumber slicing” to see how many perfectly round slices you can make out of a cucumber. So you’ll lose points for weird-looking slices like this. Scary! It’s actually not as easy as it seems. Keep the angle of the knife to the cucumber constant at all times. Otherwise, the slices become bigger and bigger. They are already bigger (laughs). Well that’s okay. Now the salt… Take 2 pinches of salt with 3 fingers. Mix well with your hands. Then leave it for a while. until it’s a little softer. Cut the fried tofu in half lengthwise. This much? Something like that. It’s about 6-7mm wide. Well done. We’re having some “Kayanoya dashi” bonito soup. Seasoning the fried tofu Take just a bit of soup Yes, please put it in. It’s a really just a little bit. Put fried tofu in a pot with a little soup then add sugar soy sauce and white soy sauce. Now set it on fire. We’ll season just a bit- boil it now. It’s boiling. Okay, stir up a little bit. The taste just needs to seep in. Seems good. Now turn off the heat. The fried tofu is still hot but these cucumbers are cold. So let’s wait for the fried tofu to cool down. Squeeze the cucumbers to remove water. You can squeeze by hand, but it requires strength let’s see how much muscle you’ve got. No water is coming out! Wait a second. Try and take a bite. See if there is enough salt… It’s quite salty. It’s enough? Where do you buy these things? In the DIY stores. Put it in the bag and try squeezing again. See, there comes more water.
Surely! We all need good tools. These are “Before” and “After”. It’s so easy to squeeze. That seems good. There’s not much water left in the cucumber. We used to grind sesame seeds in a mortar… do you know? Like this?
Have you ever ground sesame before? “Grinding sesame”? Yes, grinding sesame (Japanese euphemism for “flattering”) Sometimes in restaurants, they serve cutlets with sesame in a small mortar. Yes, but you’ve never seen anything this big? Not at home. When I was younger, that’s all we had So it took two people to grind sesame It was a two-people job. One to hold down the mortar, another to grind with a stick There are many different kinds of sesame seeds in store nowadays. This is what I usually use. Ground sesame seeds. White sesame? Yes white, for this salad it has to be white sesame. When the seasoned fried tofu is cool enough, mix it with cucumber. Squeeze it lightly . You can throw the soup away. Just a little squeeze. Yes, not wasting too much soup. After mixing cucumber with fried tofu, Add sugar vinegar soy sauce And a generous amount of white sesame. Ok let’s take a taste The seasoning must have settled in. Delicious. It’s quite good. We now have sweet and sour cucumber salad. A simple yet delicious dish all ready. Itadakimasu (offering gratitude for food) It’s so delicious.
Well done. It’s a taste that takes away your fatigue. The sesame seeds go well with the salad.
They are very savory. Yummy yummy I can finish a full bowl of salad. My husband would eat just as much. He always eats up the entire dish. Today’s recipe is available on the Nippon Ichi website! Please follow the link in the video description. The opening menus of the WONDERfull Nippon Cuisine were all spring dishes Rice with Bamboo Shoot Steamed Egg Custard and Sweet and Sour Cucumber Salad. Please give this combination a try! I hope you have enjoyed WONDERfull Nippon Cuisine. Stay tuned for the next one!
=Japanese Traditional Home Cooking=
Japanese often enjoy “sunomono” or pickled dishes.
Enjoy the sweet and sour cucumber and fried tofu “sunomono” salad.
もう一品！の簡単レシピ
きゅうりと油揚げの酢の物です
さわやかなきゅうり
甘く味つけた油揚げに
胡麻がいいアクセントです
レシピは以下から/Recipe available from the following link
http://www.nipponichi.co/shokudo.html