Vinegary salad of cucumber and wakame

Vegetable recipes

Vinegary salad of cucumber and wakame(1 serving)

It is Sunomono (vinegar dishes) using seaweed and cucumbers.In Japan, it is eaten as hors d’oeuvres and snacks to go with sake.It is a very healthy dish.There’s nothing like a glass of cold beer and Vinegary salad of cucumber and wakame on a hot summer’s day.It is one of the Japanese food recipes to eat in summer.

Ingredients

　　　　
• 1 cucumber
• 2g cut wakame seaweed(dried)
• 5 crab stick
• 1 tbsp (15ml) vinegar
• 1 tbsp (15ml) soup stock
• 1/2 tbsp (7.5ml) mirin
• 1/4 tsp (1.25ml) soy sauce
• Salt, to your taste

Directions

1. Cut the cucumber into small chunks.Place it in a bowl and mix with salt.Set aside for a short while.



2. When sufficiently flavored, work the cucumber with your hands until pliable, rinse and squeeze out water.



3. Soak the wakame in water to reconstitute it and wring.



4. Tear the crab stick by your hand.



5. Combine the vinegar, soup stock, mirin, soy sauce, salt and add the cumcumber, wakame, crab stick.

Please cook it without wakame if you dislike wakame.