Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, spicy cucumber banchan. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spicy Cucumber Banchan is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Spicy Cucumber Banchan is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
These marinated Korean cucumbers are tart, spicy, and just a touch sweet. You may not want dill pickles again. Oi muchim is a Korean banchan that shows off the best attributes of cukes.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook spicy cucumber banchan using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Spicy Cucumber Banchan:
- Take 1.5 pounds Persian or Kirby or English/Hothouse Cucumbers, sliced into 1/8-inch thick slices
- Get 1 Tablespoon kosher salt
- Make ready 2 small cloves garlic, very finely minced or grated
- Take 1.5 green onions, finely chopped, including the whites
- Take 1.5 Tablespoons sugar
- Make ready 3.5 Tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Get 1.5 Tbsp gochugaru(Korean dried chili flakes) or 2.5 tsp of crushed red chili flakes (like the kind you get with your pizza)
Today, our diet plate revolves around one of my favorite banchans - Spicy Korean Cucumber Salad (Oi Muchim). These cucumbers walk the line between Kimchi and. I probably should have saved my favorite for last, but why not start off with a bang? An easy Korean cucumber side dish that's spicy, slightly sweet and tangy!
Steps to make Spicy Cucumber Banchan:
- In a large mixing bowl, toss the cucumbers with the salt and let them sit for 20 to 25 minutes while they extrude excess liquid, re-tossing once halfway just to make sure the salt does its job on all the pieces. This process helps the cucumbers retain a pickled crunch.
- Squeeze the cucumber in fistfuls to get rid of the excess liquid (discard the liquid).
- Toss the cucumbers with the rest of the ingredients.
- Enjoy!
It'll be an excellent complement to any of your main dishes. I don't remember seeing bokchoy in Korea when I was. Banchan or bansang is a collective name for small side dishes served along with cooked rice in Korean cuisine. As the Korean language does not distinguish between singular and plural grammatically, the word is used for both one such dish or all of them combined. Great recipe for Spicy Cucumber Banchan.
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