Chinese Vegetarian Recipes

Quick Cucumber Recipe

Cucumber Recipe

Introduction:

Is cucumber a fruit or a vegetable? I did a little research. The answer is not definite. But I can summarize all of the answers here, i.e. cucumber is a vegetable because of its vine and it is a fruit because of its seeds.

Whatever the scientists classify it, I like cucumber all the same because of its characteristics of fruit and vegetables. That is because I can both eat it as a fruit and cook it as a vegetable. Due to its double identity, it is really easy to cook a cucumber recipe. The recipe today is one of the examples.

Ingredients:

Cucumbers: 2 fresh medium sized

Garlic clovers: 2

Fresh chili pepper: 1

Seasonings:

Salt: 1/2 teaspoon

Soy Sauce: 1 teaspoon

Vinegar: 1 teaspoon

MSG: 1/4 teaspoon

Vegetable oil: 1 tablespoon

Preparation Work:

1. Peel and slice the garlic cloves;

2. Wash the cucumbers clean and cut them into slices that are 2-3 mm thick;

3. Rinse the chili pepper, remove the stem and seeds, then chop it up into shapes that you like (To go along with the other ingredients, I just chop it along the intersection. )

Cooking Steps:

1. Preheat the oil in the wok on high heat;

2. Drop the sliced garlic cloves and the chopped chili pepper together into the wok and swing the wok by holding the handle until you smell the flavor of them;

3. Drop the cucumber slices into the wok and stir fry for one minute;

4. Add in the salt and MSG and stir until they mix full with each other.

5. Ready for serving.

Cooking Tips:

1. Choose those cucumbers with flowers and thorns, which are the tender ones.

2. Don’t fry too long. Otherwise, the cucumber slices will become softened, which I don’t like. You know what I like. I like the cracking noise when I chew on it. If you under cook it, there is no problem because cucumber is a fruit, too, as we mentioned in the beginning of this post.

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4. Cucumber Soup with Dried Beancurd Sticks
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