Egg is such an amazing ingredient. No matter how you cook it, it still tastes nice (unless you really screwed up). Egg drop soup, quiche, hard boiled egg, scrambled egg, the list is just never end. Among all the egg dishes, chawanmushi is the first come to my mind, if you ask me what my favourite egg dish is. It is silky smooth like tofu. It has plenty of variations. It goes perfectly with shiitake mushroom, enoki mushroom, crab sticks, ginko etc. A good chawanmushi will just melt when you put a spoonful in your mouth. Just by thinking of it makes me feel like to cook some tonight...
What is your favourite egg dish?
I love Korean food especially their side dish. Whenever I go for a Korean barbecue, I keep asking the staff to refill the side dish, be it the potato salad, the seaweed salad and the wombok kimchi. I just can't stop eating them. Among all kimchi I have ever tried, the cucumber kimchi is my next favourite after wombok Kimchi. :D
Do you want a little bit of spice tonight? I absolutely do!
Cucumber Kimchi
make 12 | prep 1 hour | cooking 10 mins | Korean
[ Ingredients ]
6 Lebanese cucumbers *
4 cups water
4 tbsp sea salt
1/2 small bunch of Asian chive, chopped
1/2 onion, chopped
2 cups carrots sliced into thin matchsticks *
For the filling
1 tbsp salted shrimp
2 tbsp cooked white rice
1/4 cup water
3 garlic cloves
1 piece of ginger, size of a garlic clove
1 tbsp sugar
1/3 cup Korean chili flakes
4 tbsp fish sauce *
* where I used different ingredients from the original recipe
[ Method ]
The below is for reference only, for a proper full version of the recipe, please click here and click photo to enlarge the image.
[ Kitchen Notes ]
¶ To avoid irritation from the chili, it is recommended to use gloves when stuffing the cucumber :)
♥ bon appétit :)
