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Cucumbers

Cucumbers - rolling in salt

あさりは海水よりも少し薄めの塩水2%くらいにつけ砂出しをする

Place a washed cucumber onto a cutting board, sprinkle on some salt and roll the cucumber in the salt. Doing so will remove the stipples (bumps) and refresh both the color and flavor. This preparation method is called “itazuri” in Japanese. The recommended amount of salt for 1 cucumber is about 1/2 to 1 tsp. After performing itazuri, quickly rinse off the cucumber and then cut up.

Cucumbers - thinly sliced

 
 
 

Cut the cucumber vertically in half, and then thinly slice cut-side down at an angle from end to end.

Cucumbers - rounds

 
 

Cut the cucumber at consistent widths from end to end. This is also called an edge cut when used for cucumbers or Japanese long onions.

Cucumbers - half-circle slices

 
 
 

Cut the cucumber in half vertically, and slice cut-side down at consistent widths from end to end.

Cucumbers - matchstick juliennes

 
 
 

Thinly slice the cucumber at an angle, gradually slide and stack the slices, then finely cut into thin sticks from end to end.

Cucumbers - random cut

 
 

Cut off both ends, and rotate the cucumber as you chop from end to end.

Cucumbers - thin rounds

 
 

Cut off both ends, and then slice from end to end at consistent widths.