Recipe: Tasty Korean Style Cucumber Salad

Korean Style Cucumber Salad. An easy Korean cucumber side dish that's spicy, slightly sweet and tangy! It'll be an excellent complement to any of your main dishes. Among them are locally grown Korean cucumbers that are bountiful in Korean markets here in Northern Virginia.

Ingredients for Korean Cucumber Salad This salad is spicier than average Kimchi, in my opinion. Particularly, you will taste the spice kick in just Korean Style Sausage Stir Fry. When I lived in Korea, I was shown this Korean Cucumber salad, made with cucumbers, green onions, and sesame seeds. You can cook Korean Style Cucumber Salad using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Korean Style Cucumber Salad

1. You need 1 of cucumber, mild like English.
2. You need 1 of carrot.
3. You need 3 of green onions (scallions).
4. You need 1/8 cup of rice wine vinegar.
5. Prepare 1/8 cup of water.
6. Prepare 1/2 of Tbl. Salt.
7. Prepare 1/2 of Tbl. Sugar.
8. You need 1 tsp. of Red pepper powder (optional).
9. You need 1 Tbs. of Lime/Lemon juice (optional).

Korean-Style Cucumber Salad recipe: Try this Korean-Style Cucumber Salad recipe, or contribute your own. Cut the cucumbers and onion into very fine slices (a food processor may be used for this). Sprinkle with salt, mix well, and set aside in a bowl for an hour. This Korean cucumber salad is just that… the remarkable product of what happens when you mix cucumbers, gochugaru, garlic and vinegar.

Korean Style Cucumber Salad step by step

1. Thinly slice carrot and cucumber, put in a bowl. I used a mandolin and sliced them about 1/16 inch thick, which was perfect in my opinion..
2. Chop your green onions, add to bowl.
3. Added vinegar and water to bowl.
4. Add rest of the ingredients.
5. Mix well. I put it in a plastic container and refrigerate about an hour or two before dinner.

We might just call it delicious alchemy at its best - because the outcome is an explosion of spicy, tart, savory, slightly sweet and crunchy. Spicy Korean Cucumber Salad is the perfect beginner's recipe to Korean cooking. The cucumbers have a slightly spicy yet tangy kick, which helps refresh the palate after eating something greasy or meaty. In Seoul, we see this often in restaurants (often BBQ joints) as a complementary side-dish. And this Korean Cucumber Salad recipe is the first recipe I created in the new place!