Quick Pickled Cucumber (Japanese Inspired)

A super easy and quick Japanese inspired cucumber pickle to accompany a main meal or to have as a refreshing salad.

Prep Time: 5

Marinating Time: 15

Total Time: 20

Servings: servings

Ingredients

½ large cucumber (1¼ cups sliced)
1 spring onion scallion, optional
1 tsp grated ginger or 1 tbsp pickled ginger
2 tbsp (30 ml) rice vinegar
1 tsp sugar
¼ tsp salt

Instructions

Cut the cucumber in half lengthsways and slice very thinly.
Dice the spring onion.
In a bowl, combine and stir together the sliced cucumber, diced spring onion, grated ginger, rice vinegar, sugar and salt.
Let the pickle marinate for 15 minutes before serving.
Store leftovers in the fridge for up to 7 days.

Notes

Types of cucumber

For this recipe, you want to choose a seedless or almost seedless variety with a thin skin. We use English cucumbers as they are most commonly available to us. Other smaller varieties such as Persian cucumbers and Japanese cucumbers are a good option and will produce a less watery pickle.

Half an English cucumber weighs around 150-200g and is roughly equivalent to 1 Persian cucumber or 1 ¼ cups sliced.

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