Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, takuan (yellow pickled daikon), cucumber & shiso leaves pasta. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Take 300 grams Pasta
- Take 7 cm Takuan (5 mm cubes)
- Get 1 Cucumber (thinly sliced)
- Get 5 leaves Shiso leaves (julienned)
- Make ready 1 clove Garlic (thinly sliced)
- Prepare 3 tbsp Olive oil
- Take For the sauce:
- Take 3 tbsp Sake
- Take 2 1/2 tbsp each Soy sauce, mirin
- Make ready 100 ml Pasta water
- Take Toppings:
- Make ready 1 Sesame oil, sesame seeds, lemon juice
Instructions to make Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta:
- 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.
- Add 2 tablespoons of salt (not listed) in the large pot of boiling water, and cook the pasta until al dente.
- Put the olive oil and garlic in a frying pan, heat over low heat until fragrant, and add the sauce ingredients.
- Add the cooked pasta, takuan, cucumber and shiso leaves to the frying pan from Step 3, and mix altogether over low heat.
- 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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