Sauce-flavored cucumber

Overview

Fresh cucumbers are on the market in large quantities. We can choose some smaller cucumbers to make pickles, which are rich in sauce, mellow in taste, slightly spicy and slightly salty! It’s a great refreshing side dish to have with porridge or rice!

Tags

• hot dishes
• angelica dahurica
• dried chili pepper
• fennel
• garlic
• gherkin
• lilac
• star anise
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• fragrant leaves
• ginger
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 500g fresh cucumbers

   

2. 2 Slice ginger and garlic and set aside

   

3. 3 Wash the cucumbers and set aside

   

4. 4 Cut the cucumber lengthwise

   

5. 5 Then cut the two halves and divide one cucumber into four equal parts

   

6. 6 Cut all the cucumbers into strips and set aside

   

7. 7 Boil a pot of boiling water, add a small amount of salt, and pour in a few drops of cooking oil. This will ensure that the blanched cucumber strips are green in color. When the water is boiling, put the cucumber strips into the boiling water in batches and blanch them

   

8. 8 Blanch all cucumber strips and set aside

   

9. 9 Make the pot again, add oil and reduce heat to low, add peppercorns, star anise, and dried chili peppers and stir-fry until fragrant

   

10. 10 Then add ginger slices and garlic slices and stir-fry until fragrant

    

11. 11 Pour in soy sauce, the amount of soy sauce is based on the amount of soy sauce that has been applied to the cucumber

    

12. 12 Then add bay leaves, angelica dahurica and cloves

    

13. 13 Bring the soy sauce to a boil, simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes, and let cool

    

14. 14 Put the blanched cucumber strips into the pickling box

    

15. 15 Pour in the cooled miso soup

    

16. 16 Let the cucumber strips soak in the miso soup, cover the crisper lid, refrigerate, and marinate for 2 or 3 hours before eating. The taste becomes more intense and fragrant overnight!

    

17. 17 Put it on the plate and start eating