Recipe of Award-winning Soy Sauce Pickled Cucumber

Soy Sauce Pickled Cucumber.

Hey everyone, it's Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, soy sauce pickled cucumber. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have soy sauce pickled cucumber using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Soy Sauce Pickled Cucumber:

1. {Make ready 1 of Continental Cucumber *Today it weighed 300g.
2. {Take of *Note: Choose a thinner and firm one with no seeds and no watery parts.
3. {Make ready 1/2 teaspoon of Salt *optional.
4. {Prepare of Marinade.
5. {Prepare 2 tablespoons of Soy Sauce.
6. {Prepare 1 tablespoon of Sake (Rice Wine).
7. {Prepare 1 tablespoon of Rice Vinegar.
8. {Make ready 2 teaspoons of Sugar.
9. {Prepare 1 of small piece Ginger *cut into fine strips.
10. {Prepare of Chilli Flakes as required.

Instructions to make Soy Sauce Pickled Cucumber:

1. Cut Cucumber about 15mm thick and you need to dehydrate them. The salt-free option is drying. Place them on a tea towel and leave them under hot sun for a day..
2. Alternatively, you can use Salt to remove water from the Cucumber. Place them in a bowl, add Salt and toss to combine well, then set aside for 1-2 hours..
3. If you used Salt, drain Cucumber, discard the salty water. If you concern the salt-intake, quickly rinse with boiling water, then drain well..
4. Place the marinade ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 1 minute. Remove form the heat, add Cucumber pieces to the hot marinade, combine well, and set aside to cool..
5. As the amount of this marinade is very small, using a ziplock bag is the easiest option to marinate. Transfer the cooled Cucumber and the marinade into the bag, and remove the air, so that the Cucumber pieces can stay in this minimal amount of marinade..
6. Otherwise, you need a right size jar or container to keep the Cucumber pieces in the marinade. Double the amount of marinade if necessary..
7. *Optional Extra Process: After marinating for a few hours, you would see more liquid in the bag as water has come out from Cucumber. Place the liquid in a saucepan, simmer for 1 minute again. Add Cucumber pieces to the hot marinade, combine well, and set aside to cool..
8. Place them back in the bag, and marinate in the fridge for 1-2 days before you enjoy..

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