Recipe: Yummy Time-Saving Cucumber, Wakame Seaweed and Shirasu Vinegar Toss

Time-Saving Cucumber, Wakame Seaweed and Shirasu Vinegar Toss. Great recipe for Time-Saving Cucumber, Wakame Seaweed and Shirasu Vinegar Toss. Since I have little time but want to serve up enough variety at the table, I tend to stick to quick dishes. Since shirasu is also good as a first food for babies, I can kill two birds with one stone!!

Place the cucumber sunomono into a bowl. Add the wakame to the cucumber bowl along with the sesame seeds. Mix all the ingredients for the dressing and pour over the cucumber and wakame. You can have Time-Saving Cucumber, Wakame Seaweed and Shirasu Vinegar Toss using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Time-Saving Cucumber, Wakame Seaweed and Shirasu Vinegar Toss

1. It's 1 of Cucumber.
2. You need 20 grams of Salted wakame seaweed.
3. Prepare 20 grams of Shirasu (boiled).
4. You need 2 tbsp of ※ Vinegar.
5. Prepare 2 tsp of ※ Sugar.
6. It's 1 dash of ※ Salt.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of ※ Soy sauce.
8. You need 1 tbsp of ※ Dashi stock.

Toss using chopsticks and serve, or top with shirasu and serve. Other kinds of vinegar can be replaced - white vinegar, apple cider vinegar, balsamic vinegar, wine vinegar but each different vinegar will taste differently. Vietnamese cucumbers or continental cucumbers are recommended to use for this recipe. For this salad recipe, s alting the cucumber is an important step.

Time-Saving Cucumber, Wakame Seaweed and Shirasu Vinegar Toss instructions

1. Thinly slice the cucumber. Sprinkle with salt and mix. Once they become wilted, squeeze out the moisture..
2. Rehydrate the wakame seaweed. Squeeze out the excess water, then cut into bite-sized pieces..
3. Combine the ※ ingredients, then toss with the wakame seaweed, cucumbers, and shirasu..

I often add in wakame seaweed to cucumber salad for another layer of texture and for its beneficial nutrients. Wakame seaweed is often used as an ingredient in Japanese cucumber salad. They are available in dried form from any asian grocery stores or online. Squeeze the water out and cut them if necessary. For Japanese people, wakame is the king of seaweed.