Japanese
Kyuri no Asazuke (Quick Pickled Cucumber)
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Kyuri no Asazuke (Quick Pickled Cucumber) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch, dinner, and breakfast. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the cucumbers into thick sticks.
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Toss with the salt, ginger, kombu (snipped into small pieces), and crumbled chili in a bag or bowl.
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Press with a light weight and let sit at room temperature at least 15 minutes, or chill up to a day.
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Drain briefly before serving.
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Serve it with
A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kyuri no Asazuke (Quick Pickled Cucumber), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Kyuri no Asazuke (Quick Pickled Cucumber) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 20 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 240 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kyuri no Asazuke (Quick Pickled Cucumber) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch, dinner, and breakfast. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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