Japanese cucumber salad

Japanese cucumber salad

12 min
4 servings

This Japanese cucumber salad is the right bit of tangy and sweet goodness. So simple and quick to make once you start eating this you won't be able to stop.

Ingredients

  • 2 cucumbers sliced thin
  • 2 TBSP sesame seeds (regular or black or both)
  • 1/2 cups rice vinegar
  • 1 TSP soy sauce
  • 2 TSP sugar
  • 1/4 TSP salt

Directions

  1. 1

    Slice cucumbers with a mandoline slicer or in food processor or by hand in thin slices

  2. 2

    Mix together rice vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, salt, and sesame seeds and stir until sugar and salt is dissolved.

  3. 3

    Lay cucumbers flat in a shallow pan and pour mixture over top

  4. 4

    Stir around the cucumbers in the mixture and cover and refrigerate

  5. 5

    Refrigerate for 2 hours stirring every 30 minutes