Kyuri No Sunome (Japanese Cucumber Salad)

Recipe Ingredients

5 tablespoons	75ml	Cucumbers - seeded (medium)
2 teaspoons	10ml	Salt
1/2 cup	118ml	Lemon juice
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Sugar
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Msg (optional)
1 tablespoon	15ml	White wine vinegar
2 teaspoons	10ml	Sesame seeds - toasted

Recipe Instructions

Peel cucumbers lengthwise, leaving thin green stripes.

Slice very thinly into a large glass or stainless steel bowl. Add salt and mix with hand until cucumber slices are quite limp. Set aside for 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix lemon juice, sugar, MSG and white wine vinegar. Transfer cucumbers to a strainer and squeeze as much liquid as possible out of the cucumbers.

Discard salt water. Add cucumbers to the lemon juice mixture. Ground the toasted sesame seeds and stir into the salad.

Source:
Mary Davis

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