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How to Make Sunomono: Japanese Cucumber Salad. Sunomono is a quick and easy japanese cucumber salad dressed with minimal ingredients. This recipe is a sweet and tangy side dish can go alongside any asian meal. | Tiny Kitchen Cuisine | http://tiny.kitchen

Sunomono: Japanese Cucumber Salad

Sunomono is a quick Japanese cucumber salad dressed with minimal ingredients. This sweet and tangy side dish goes well with any Asian meal.
INGREDIENTS AT A GLANCE
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds
  • salt
Total Time:
15 minutes
Serves:
2
How to Make Sunomono: Japanese Cucumber Salad. Sunomono is a quick and easy japanese cucumber salad dressed with minimal ingredients. This recipe is a sweet and tangy side dish can go alongside any asian meal. | Tiny Kitchen Cuisine | http://tiny.kitchen

Sunomono

Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Serves 2

Ingredients  

  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds
  • salt

Instructions

  • Peel and cut cucumbers in half lengthwise then slice cucumbers crosswise into moderately thick slices.
  • Sprinkle slices with salt and let stand for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, blot the cucumbers dry with a towel to remove excess moisture. Move cucumber into a small mixing bowl.
  • Add soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar to the cucumbers. Mix well.
  • Top with a light sprinkle of sesame seeds and enjoy!

Notes

For best results, make this dish one hour before serving.
Course: Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: appetizer, cucumber, japanese salad
Tried this recipe?Let me know how it was!

Sunomono is a quick and easy Japanese cucumber salad. There are many varieties of sunomono in Japanese cuisine, but I like this particular version because of its simplicity. This slightly sweet and tangy dish can go alongside nearly any Asian meal without overpowering its culinary mate. It’s light, refreshing, and 100% vegetarian.

Mix It Up!

Feeling experimental? You can make a ton of different variations of this recipe. You can make this recipe more traditional by adding some rehydrated dried seaweed (wakame). If you want to make a larger meal out of this appetizer, you can also add some chopped up seafood like shrimp, imitation crab, or octopus.

If you’ve ever tried to make Asian cuisine in your tiny kitchen, you’ve probably already learned that some recipes take a really long time to prepare. The good news is that when you’re just trying to fill out a meal, Sunomono literally takes 5 minutes to make. I also love this side dish because it’s basically just a sliced cucumber and a bunch of condiments. Couldn’t be easier!

Preparing Sunomono In A Tiny Kitchen

This recipe takes about 10 minutes to prepare. Ideally, you want to wait at least an hour after preparation before you eat it. In this tiny kitchen, however, that almost never happens! From my own experience, even if you don’t wait, it’s still really tasty. When you let it rest for that extra hour, the flavors become bolder and stronger as the cucumbers begin to pickle in the vinegar.

This sunomono recipe is perfect to prepare in a small space and doesn’t require much in the way of clean up. Preparation uses only a few dishes and doesn’t require any cooking. You can prepare it in advance and keep it in the refrigerator for up to two days. Pop it into an airtight container and you’re set. Now you’ll have a quick side dish any time you want!

That’s it!

Give this recipe for Sunomono: Japanese Cucumber Salad a shot and let me know what you think. Don’t forget to come back and give me your rating. If you have any questions or find other substitutions that are yummy, feel free to add those in your comments! As always, if you like this recipe, please share on social media so other people know about it too.
Nutrition Facts
Sunomono
Amount Per Serving (131 g)
Calories 42 Calories from Fat 9
% Daily Value*
Fat 0.99g2%
Saturated Fat 0.136g1%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.35g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.326g
Sodium 375mg16%
Potassium 150mg4%
Carbohydrates 6.66g2%
Fiber 0.9g4%
Sugar 5.61g6%
Protein 1.07g2%
Vitamin A 150IU3%
Vitamin C 3.3mg4%
Calcium 20mg2%
Iron 0.4mg2%
* Percent Daily Values based on a 2000 calorie diet.
First Published On: February 27, 2017
Last Modified On: November 30, 2023
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3 Responses

  1. If buy seasoned rice vinegar like I do, you can omit the other seasonings. This is a refreshing addition to any meal.. I particularly like the larger chunks in this recipe as apposed to the thinner slices.

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