Cucumber with umeboshi. Cucumber Pork Belly Salad with Umeboshi Dressing It wasn't until a year ago that I first tasted umeboshi. I have to admit, on first taste, I was not a fan. Salad for President is a collection of recipes from the blog of the same name, by food writer and artist Julia Sherman.

I love to use umeboshi in sushi as they have a very sour taste that works well with other ingredients, such as cucumber and aromatic. Kyuri Bainikuae is cucumber with Umeboshi sour plum sauce. In Bainikuae, Umeboshi is chopped to form a paste and mixed in with other seasonings like Soy Sauce and sometimes a sweetener. You can have Cucumber with umeboshi using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cucumber with umeboshi

You need 3 of Japanese cucumbers.
Prepare 3 of umeboshi (pickled plum).
Prepare 1 pinch of dried bonito flakes *.
Prepare 1 tbs of sesame oil *.
It's 1 tsp of sesame seed *.

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Cucumber with umeboshi instructions

Peel cucumbers and cut into chunks..
Take pits out of umeboshi and mash them. And mix with other ingredients (*)..
Add cut cucumbers and mix..

Great recipe for Cucumber with umeboshi. This is the type of food that you expect to see at izakakaya restaurants as appetizer. Umeboshi are pickled (brined) ume fruits common in Japan. The word umeboshi is often translated into English as 'salted Japanese plums', 'Japanese plums' or 'preserved plums'. Ume (Prunus mume) is a species of fruit-bearing tree in the genus Prunus, which is often called a "plum".