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Pickled Cucumbers With Sichuan Peppers

Pickled Cucumbers With Sichuan Peppers

Pickled cucumbers (Japanese tsukemono style) but with a zing.
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Prep Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: Cucumbers, Sichuan Peppers

Ingredients

  • 3 lbs cucumbers About 6 cucumbers.
  • 3 tbsp salt

Pickling sauce

  • 4 cloves garlic
  • Ginger About the same amount as garlic.
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp sichuan peppers
  • 2 anise
  • 1 c shoyu Soy sauce.
  • ½ c vinegar
  • ½ c sugar
  • Chili pepper flakes Or your favorite hot sauce.

Instructions

Cucumber preparation

  • Slice cucumbers to ½ inch thickness. Add salt, mix, and let it sit at room temperature for one hour. Move cucumbers to colander to drain as you work on the pickling sauce.

Pickling sauce

  • Add olive oil to the pan and adjust the temperature to high heat. Slice the garlic and ginger and add to the pan when it begins to get warm. Right before the garlic and ginger begin to fry in the oil, add sichuan peppers, anise, shoyu, and vinegar. Stir until it begins to get warm again, then adjust the temperature to low (Mom put it at 3 on the dial).
  • Add sugar to the pan. Stir until it dissolves (about 30 seconds). Adjust the temperature to high and bring to a boil, then turn the stove off. Optional: Add chili pepper flakes or your favorite hot sauce at this time. Let the sauce cool on the stove for about 15 minutes.
    Turn the stove off as soon as the pickling sauce begins to boil.

Add pickling sauce to the cucumbers

  • Squeeze the excess water out of the cucumbers with your hands. The more water you can get out, the better crunch and taste you'll get. Transfer cucumbers to a large bowl.
  • Pour pickling sauce directly onto cucumbers. Allow pickling sauce to soak into cucumbers for at least 2 hours at room temperature before eating. Store in the fridge. Best eaten when cold.
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