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Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, takuan (yellow pickled daikon), cucumber & shiso leaves pasta. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have takuan (yellow pickled daikon), cucumber & shiso leaves pasta using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta:

1. Get 300 grams Pasta
2. Take 7 cm Takuan (5 mm cubes)
3. Get 1 Cucumber (thinly sliced)
4. Take 5 leaves Shiso leaves (julienned)
5. Take 1 clove Garlic (thinly sliced)
6. Prepare 3 tbsp Olive oil
7. Take For the sauce:
8. Get 3 tbsp Sake
9. Get 2 1/2 tbsp each Soy sauce, mirin
10. Make ready 100 ml Pasta water
11. Prepare Toppings:
12. Prepare 1 Sesame oil, sesame seeds, lemon juice

Instructions to make Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta:

1. Bring water to a boil to cook the pasta. Meanwhile, thinly slice the cucumber with a mandoline, and sprinkle with a little salt. When the sliced cucumber has wilted, squeeze out the water. Cut the takuan and shiso leaves as well.
2. Add 2 tablespoons of salt (not listed) in the large pot of boiling water, and cook the pasta until al dente.
3. Put the olive oil and garlic in a frying pan, heat over low heat until fragrant, and add the sauce ingredients.
4. Add the cooked pasta, takuan, cucumber and shiso leaves to the frying pan from Step 3, and mix altogether over low heat.
5. Transfer the pasta and sauce to serving plates. Sprinkle with sesame oil and sesame seeds, and squeeze over some lemon juice to finish. Done.

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