Cucumber with Sour Plum (Umeboshi) and Bonito Flakes

Liven up your dinner table with some decorative cucumber bitings.

Recipe By: cookbuzz (https://cookbuzz.com/kitchen/454)
Makes 2 Cook: 5 min

Ingredients

Cucumber 4cm
Sour plum (umeboshi) 1
Bonito flakes 1 tbsp

Method

1
Cut almost all the way through a piece of cucumber with a petit knife, making sure the two halves are exactly the same.
2
Cut the cucumber diagonally with another knife until it hits the petit knife.
3
Turn over and repeat Step 2.
4
Pull apart the two halves.
5
Remove the stone from the sour plum and chop finely. Add the bonito flakes and mix well.
6
Top the cucumber halves with Step 5.
7
You could also try with some Branston pickle topping, 1 tsp on each half.

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Cucumber with Sour Plum (Umeboshi) and Bonito Flakes

Liven up your dinner table with some decorative cucumber bitings.

Recipe By: cookbuzz (https://cookbuzz.com/kitchen/454)

Makes 2

Cook: 5 min

Ingredients

Cucumber 4cm
Sour plum (umeboshi) 1
Bonito flakes 1 tbsp

Cucumber with Sour Plum (Umeboshi) and Bonito Flakes

Recipe ID :2580 Posted on 10 APR 2017

Makes 2

Cook 5min
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Liven up your dinner table with some decorative cucumber bitings.

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Ingredients

Method

Cook
5min
1
Cut almost all the way through a piece of cucumber with a petit knife, making sure the two halves are exactly the same.
2
Cut the cucumber diagonally with another knife until it hits the petit knife.
3
Turn over and repeat Step 2.
4
Pull apart the two halves.
5
Remove the stone from the sour plum and chop finely. Add the bonito flakes and mix well.
6
Top the cucumber halves with Step 5.
7
You could also try with some Branston pickle topping, 1 tsp on each half.
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