cucumber & tomato sunomono

Sunomono with Tomato & Cucumber (sweet & sour salad)

Published on 20/02/2017 | In By
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Sunomono with Tomato & Cucumber (sweet & sour salad)

“Sunomono” is a traditional Japanese style salad. Salad was not an ordinary dish for us in Japan, my mother never made it during my childhood. Instead, we have a wide variety of vegetable dishes. “Sunomono” is one of them. This one is vegetables with sweet and sour sauce (“Amazu”). It is a refreshing complement to other dishes at the dinner table.

Cucumber is a common ingredient for “Sunomono”, and so is “Wakame (seaweed)”. I often use tomatoes too. Tomato contains glutamic acid which gives the famous “Umami” flavour. “Umami” is said to be 5th flavour after the other four main flavours: sweet, salt, bitter, sour.

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Ingredients

  • 2 large tomatos
  • 15cm cucumber
  • 2tbsp vinegar
  • 1tbsp sugar
  • 2 pinches of salt or 1/2 soy sauce
  • 1tsp sesame

Instructions

  1. Slice the cucumber thinly, sprinkle with a touch of salt , rub it in, set aside.
  2. Then, make the "Amazu" sauce . Put vinegar, salt, and sugar in a pan, bring to the boil. Make sure the salt and sugar melt, then set a side to cool down.
  3. Cut the tomato into pieces. Rinse the cucumber with water, then squeeze out the water gently. Mix it with the tomato, then mix with the "Amazu" sauce . Sprinkle some sesame on top.