Simple Way to Make Homemade Spicy Cucumber Banchan

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, spicy cucumber banchan. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Spicy Cucumber Banchan is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Spicy Cucumber Banchan is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook spicy cucumber banchan using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve 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. Prepare 1 Tablespoon kosher salt
3. Make ready 2 small cloves garlic, very finely minced or grated
4. Take 1.5 green onions, finely chopped, including the whites
5. Get 1.5 Tablespoons sugar
6. Prepare 3.5 Tablespoons distilled white vinegar
7. Get 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)

Steps 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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