Spicy Cucumber Banchan
Spicy Cucumber Banchan

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, spicy cucumber banchan. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Spicy Cucumber Banchan is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Spicy Cucumber Banchan is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have spicy cucumber banchan using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Spicy Cucumber Banchan:
  1. Get 1.5 pounds Persian or Kirby or English/Hothouse Cucumbers, sliced into 1/8-inch thick slices
  2. Make ready 1 Tablespoon kosher salt
  3. Make ready 2 small cloves garlic, very finely minced or grated
  4. Get 1.5 green onions, finely chopped, including the whites
  5. Get 1.5 Tablespoons sugar
  6. Make ready 3.5 Tablespoons distilled white vinegar
  7. Prepare 1.5 Tbsp gochugaru(Korean dried chili flakes) or 2.5 tsp of crushed red chili flakes (like the kind you get with your pizza)
Instructions to make Spicy Cucumber Banchan:
  1. In a large mixing bowl, toss the cucumbers with the salt and let them sit for 20 to 25 minutes while they extrude excess liquid, re-tossing once halfway just to make sure the salt does its job on all the pieces. This process helps the cucumbers retain a pickled crunch.
  2. Squeeze the cucumber in fistfuls to get rid of the excess liquid (discard the liquid).
  3. Toss the cucumbers with the rest of the ingredients.
  4. Enjoy!

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