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The cucumber has been known in India and Egypt for 4000 years.
Traditionally, women cover their faces with thinly sliced
cucumber to moisturize and restore radiance to their skin. The pulp of the
Cucumber is actually deemed to cosmetology.

The cucumber is native to the Himalayas and China, covering sixty percent of world production, is the largest producer.

The smaller and less seeds it contains. It will keep several weeks in the crisper of the refrigerator. Cucumber is an excellent ally for health. It comprises more than 96% water and is therefore among the least-calorie vegetables. Its skin contains a substance that facilitates the urinary elimination and digestion. This is an excellent cleanser. It has many vitamins: A, B, C and vitamin E which helps to delay aging of cells. Cucumber is also rich in fibers that facilitate digestion.

Makizushi – maki – rolled with vegetables and raw fish

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Ingredients :

  • 1 cup of Japanese rice or round rice
  • 1 1/2 cup of water
  • rice vinegar
  • 2 sheets of nori seaweed
  • 100 g of fresh salmon
  • 1 ½ cucumber
  • 2 eggs
  • sugar
  • salt
  • 1 sushi mat

Preparation :

Wash the rice several times until the water is very clear and then drain well.

Place rice in a saucepan and add water, cover and let the rice stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Cook rice always covered for 3 minutes over high heat then 12 minutes over medium heat. When the rice and cooked remove from heat and let stand 10 minutes.

Prepare the seasoning for rice in a bowl put 3 cl rice vinegar, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt and mix and reserve.

Cut the cucumber into 2 then into 4 in lengthwise and remove seeds from cucumber then cut into sticks about 1 cm.

Cut salmon into strips about 1 cm and reserved.

In a bowl break the eggs and then put a pinch of salt, sugar and 1 teaspoon of rice vinegar and mix.

Heat a lightly oiled pan and pour the egg spread out well to make an omelette not too thick, then roll.

Cut the tip of the omelet then cut in two vertically and set aside.

Place rice in a warm bowl and pour rice vinegar and stir gently then cover the rice with a damp cloth and let cool to room temperature.

Place the nori smooth side outward on the sushi mat, (moisten your hands to prevent the rice stick in your hand), then put the rice on the sheet and spread it over three quarters of the sheet pressing gently, then garnish with cucumber, salmon, omelet and then lift the carpet to start rolling the maki by light pressure and continue to gently roll up tightly to prevent the maki does not come off.

Wet the blade of your knife and cut the maki into slices of about 3 cm.

Serve with sweet soy sauce and a hint of wasabi.

 

Tips : You can vary your maki using different ingredients like tuna, shrimp, carrots, radish, and avocado, etc. ….

Anecdotes : The makizushi (literally, “sushi roll”), often called maki in Europe, is a Japanese culinary specialty is in the form of a roll of dried nori seaweed coating the vinegared rice stuffed with different foods, especially fish raw or plants. Like other sushi, it is dipped in sauce mixed with wasabi.
It is very close to his cousin Korea, Kimbap.

Cha gio – nem – pork rolls with crab

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Ingredients :
For 24 nems

  • 1/2 cup of soy vermicelli
  • 1 small onion, finely chopped
  • 6 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 250g of minced pork or sausage
  • 185 g of crab meat
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of fish sauce
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon of ground black pepper
  • 1/2 packet of puff pastry for spring rolls or rice
  • cooking oil
  • salad leaves
  • Fresh mint leaves
  • fresh coriander leaves
  • half cucumber slices

Preparation :

Soak some vermicelli for 10 minutes in hot water, drain and cut into 2.5 cm, with a knife.

Place in bowl with onion, spring onion, pork, crab, salt, the fish sauce and pepper. Mix well.

Place the sheets of rice dough on a damp cloth. When each sheet is softened, cut into 4 pieces. Put amidst 2 teaspoons of farce.

Fold the ends toward the center and roll it so that the farce is completely trapped. Put some water on the edges so that it does not open.

When all the rolls are ready, heat oil in a wok or deep fryer and fry until they become golden. Then drain on paper towels.

Wrap each roll in a lettuce leaf with some mint and cilantro and a slice of cucumber. Serve with rice and the nuoc cham sauce.

Tips: There are many variations of traditional spring rolls, according to farce that can be used with pork, chicken, crab and shrimp. The farce of the Imperial vietnamese recipe is only seasoned with the pepper and salt, without adding soy sauce or fish sauce or spices. It includes bean sprouts and no added herbs or aromatic plant. The farce of nem is exclusively wrapped with the rice cake. Please note that the farce should never contain oyster sauce, or bamboo shoots, or ginger or curry powder or spice or mint leaves chopped or potato, and even less soy sauce. In any case, the farce not should be cooked before rolling in the rice cake! The farce is cooked during the frying of the roll.

Anecdotes : The Nem or Cha Gio is a traditional festive dishes of Vietnam. Very popular in the ancient imperial court of Vietnam, this dish is commonly known as Pâté Imperial, Imperial roll or nem in France or Spring roll and Vietnamese Spring Roll in Anglo-Saxon. Called Nem Ran in northern Vietnam, and Cha Gio in the south, where the name “nem” instead refers to pieces of pork into squares fermented (nem chua) or a skewer of pork meatballs, baked barbecue (nem nuong).

Popiah – spring roll

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Ingredients :
For 10 springrolls

For the pancakes:

  • 1 1/2 cups of water
  • 3 eggs
  • salt
  • 1 tablespoon of oil
  • 3/4 cup of flour

Sauce “tim cheong”:

  • a long red chile
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 tablespoon of plum sauce
  • 2 tablespoon of hoisin sauce

Stuffing Pan:

  • 2 tablespoon of oil
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tablespoons of fermented soybean paste (tau cheo)
  • 150 g of pork, diced
  • 500 g of jicama (or sweet peas) cut into julienne strips
  • 2 tablespoon of black soy sauce
  • 5 tablespoons of sugar
  • salt
  • 125 g deveined medium shrimp, cleaned
  • 250 g of firm cooked tofu cut thinly sliced ​​
  • 3 eggs, lightly beaten

Stuffing raw:

  • 8 to 10 leaves of green leaf lettuce, washed and dried
  • 1 cup of bean sprouts, rinsed and dried
  • 1 cup of Julienne cucumber
  • 2 green onions, chopped
  • 1/4 cup of coarsely chopped fresh coriander
  • 1/4 cup of fried shallots
  • 1/2 cup of chopped roasted peanuts
  • a fried of red onions

Preparation :

For the batter : Mix together water, eggs, salt and oil, add flour and mix well and let the dough rest for at least 1 hour.

To cook pancakes : Heat a skillet over medium heat, add 1/4 cup of batter and to spread, place the pan on the heat and cook until the cake comes off the sides.
It should be lightly browned then remove, repeat the operation with the rest of the dough. Stack the pancakes.

Wrap in plastic and keep covered until ready to serve, they can be stored in the refrigerator for 1 or 2 days.

For the sauce : Remove skin of the red chili, then remove the seed and slice. Peel and mince the garlic. Crush the chili, garlic and add the plum sauce and hoisin sauce. Reserve.

To cook the filling : Beat the eggs and cook to make an omelet. Cut into thin slices and set aside.

Use a mortar or a blender, mix garlic, onion and then add the fermented soy paste.
Add oil in a wok and sauté the mixture for 3 minutes to release flavors. Rinse the jicama, cut into julienne strips and add jicama, tofu, garlic, the shrimps and pork, cook for a few minutes.
Add soy sauce and sugar and cook about 15 minutes until the vegetables have made all their water.

To serve : Place all ingredients in the center of the table. Place the envelopes of popiah near of ingredients. Add a serving of bean sprouts (bangkuang), cilantro, onions, cucumbers, roasted peanuts and scallions, (the guests choose the ingredients according to taste), close the envelope by rolling then dip into the sauce.

Tips: The farce is very diverse in different places. The basic farce is vegetables that grow in the spring with meat and omelet finely cut. In some places, they also add noodles, Chinese sausage, cooked vegetables instead of those bleached, tofu, seafood, sticky rice …

Anecdotes: There are variations in most Asian countries like Indonesia and the Philipinnes is the “Lumpiang Sariwa” or Vietnam is “Bo Bia”. This recipe is found more in China, Taiwan, Singapore and in Malaysia.

Nasi lemak – coconut rice and anchovies

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Ingredients :

  • 500 g of rice
  • 5 tablespoons of oil
  • 50 cl of coconut milk
  • 3 leaves of Pandanus
  • 3 shallots
  • 1 sliced ​​ginger
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 40 g of anchovy
  • 4 teaspoons of chili paste
  • 1 cucumber
  • 20 g of roasted salted peanuts
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 onions
  • 1 teaspoon of belacan or shrimp paste
  • 3 teaspoons of tamarind

Preparation :

Rinse rice until water runs clear and reserved.
Cut the pandan leaves into large pieces. Peel and cut into pieces half the ginger and chop the shallots.

In a saucepan pour the coconut milk and rice and stir, add the ginger, shallots and pandanus, and cook over low heat and simmer 20 minutes until the water evaporation.

Peel onions and cut them into cubes, then peel the garlic. Chop the onions, garlic and remaining ginger in a blender or mortar. Add chili paste, shrimp paste and tamarind to mixture.

Heat a lightly oiled skillet and brown the anchovies, add the batter into the pan and cook for 20 minutes over low heat to create a very spicy sauce called ‘sambal’.

Cut the cucumber into cubes and cook hard-boiled eggs and cut them in half.
Serve with rice and the cucumber slices, sambal, and also a handful of peanuts.

Astuces : you can also add lemon grass and accompanied by a chicken leg.

Anecdotes: The nasi lemak is eaten both at lunch and dinner. It is served either on a plate or wrapped in a banana leaf to which we give a pyramidal form.

Kimbap – rolled rice and vegetables

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Ingredients :

  • 600 g of japanese rice
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 cucumber
  • 2 or 3 sausages Knackis
  • 3 eggs
  • white radish (danmuji) pickled
  • 70 g of Surimi
  • salt
  • Sesame oil
  • Sesame seeds
  • 2-3 nori seaweed

Preparation :

Wash the rice until the water runs clear and drain.

Put the rice in a bowl add salt, sesame oil, sesame seeds and mix. Cook rice in a rice-cooker and when the rice is cooked put to a bowl and let cool.

Cut white radish, cucumber and surimi into strips and reserve.
Cut sausage and carrots into strips and fry in a lightly oiled skillet and set aside. Break the eggs and make an omelet then cut into strips.

Place a nori seaweed on a bamboo special mat for maki and sushi, spread the rice and leave a quarter of the sheet without rice.
The layer of rice will be a little thinner on that side to prevent the Kimbap to have a bump when you roll. Put the vegetables, surimi or Knacki on rice, then roll up.

Refrigerate 1 hour.
Cut into slice and serve with sauce.

Tips: In Korea, there are Kimbap with kimchi, but there are many variations.

Anecdotes: In Korea, we eat often Kimbap when we go to a picnic or snacks.

Bibimbap – beef, rice and vegetables salad

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Ingredients :

  • round rice
  • 200 g of beef (sirloin)
  • 100g beansprouts
  • 100g black mushrooms
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 teaspoon of sesame seeds
  • 1 c. tablespoon of sesame oil
  • lettuce
  • 2 eggs
  • oil
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1 glass of water

    Marinade:

    • 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
    • 1 tablespoon to liquid honey
    • 1 tablespoon of sesame oil
    • 2 cloves garlic, crushed

      spicy sauce:

      • 2 tablespoon of red chile paste
      • 1 tablespoon of liquid honey
      • 1 tablespoon of sesame oil

        Preparation :

        Cook the rice.
        Mix the minced beef with marinade ingredients and set aside.
        Mix all ingredients in hot sauce in a bowl and reserve.
        Peel and cut carrot, cucumber and mushrooms into strips.
        Cook the julienned carrots in 1 cup water over low heat until the water evaporation.
        Season with salt, pepper, sesame oil and sesame seeds.
        Cook meat in a little oil and set aside.
        Put the rice in two large bowls and place the vegetables, meat, chili circularly by type above, crack an egg and drop it in the center.
        Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and serve very hot.

        Tips : You can add the vegetables you want.

        Anecdotes : In Korea they eat this dish with a spoon, and mix everything before eating it. It is from the region of Jeonju, South Korea.

Rojak – rujak – pasembor

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Ingredients :

  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 small pineapple not too mature
  • 3 red or green fresh chili
  • 2 tablespoons of chopped peanut

The sauce:

  • 3 tablespoons of vinegar Chinese
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 2 teaspoons of Ulek sambal chilli or fresh crushed
  • 2 teaspoons of belacan shrimp paste or dried
  • salt and lemon juice

Preparation :

Peel the cucumber and cut into julienne.
Peel the pineapple, remove core and dice.
Deseed the chili and mince.
Mix the cucumbers, the pineapple and chilis in a bowl and season with salt.

Wrap the belacan in aluminum foil and broil 5 minutes on each side on grill or over hot coals.

Mix the belacan in vinegar, add sugar, pepper, salt and lemon juice to taste. Mix to pineapple and to cucumber.

Sprinkle chopped peanut and serve.

Tips: It can also serve the sauce separately and add 1 teaspoon of tamarind paste and of palm sugar.

Anecdote : In Malaysia and Singapore, the term “Rojak” is used as an expression for talk of an eclectic mix, the word describes the multi-ethnic character of Malaysia and Singapore society. In Indonesia, the Rujak is an essential part of prenatal tradition. The Rujak is made on this occasion, and is served to the mother and to her guests, mainly to her friends. It is said that if the entire of to Rujak has a sweet taste, the child will be a girl, and if it is spicy, the baby is a boy.

Nasi goreng – fried rice

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Ingredients :

  • 3 eggs
  • salt and pepper
  • oil
  • 250 g of raw shrimp
  • 500 g lean pork or steak
  • 2 medium onions
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon of dried shrimp paste (trasi)
  • 4 cups of cooked rice
  • 6 sliced ​​spring onions
  • 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons of onion flakes
  • 1 cucumber sliced ​​thin

Preparation :

Wash and cook rice, when the rice is cooked, cover and let cool.

Heat oil in a pan and make two omelettes, salt and pepper and set aside.
When the two omelettes are cold, put one on the other, roll them and cut them into thin slices.

Shell shrimp, cut the pork or beef into slices.
Finely chop the onions, garlic and Trasi or grind in a blender, then mix and fryin a wok. Add shrimp and meat, cook 3 minutes stirring constantly.

Add 2 tablespoons of oil, wait until it is hot, stir in rice and spring onions. Fried and drizzle with soy sauce. mix well and serve

Fish pancakes and cucumber salad

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Ingredients :

for 24 pancakes

  • 500 g fillet of white fish
  • 100 g of beans or green beans meter
  • 5 kaffir leaves
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 red chili
  • 1 shallot
  • ½ cucumber
  • 1 tablespoon nuoc mam sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of red curry paste
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 tablespoon of rice wine vinegar
  • 12 cl of hot water
  •  oil

Preparation :

Chop the beans and chop very finely kaffir leaves (remove the center rib of the leaves of kaffir). Cut the fish fillet into cubes.

Mixed fish, curry paste, eggs and chopped kaffir leaves, the mixture must be uniform. Put it in a bowl and add chopped beans, sauce, fish sauce and mix.

Heat oil over high heat.

Shape into patties not too big so that the cooking is well blended and flatten slightly to make pancakes.

Put them in the oil and fry 3 minutes on each side, then remove them and drain them well on absorbent paper.

For the cucumber salad:

Cut the cucumber in 2 and finely chop the shallots and red chili.

For the vinaigrette in a bowl, put the sugar, salt, rice vinegar and the warm water and dilute the whole.

Put the cucumber and shallot in a bowl and pour the vinegrette then mix.

tips: you can eat pancakes with sweet chili sauce, serve with salad.

Bobun beef

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Ingredients :

  • 1 package of rice vermicelli
  • 2 steak ( or bavettes)
  • ½ cucumber
  • 2 carotts
  • 4  nems of chicken
  • 8 tablespoons of sauce for nems
  • 2 tablespoons of chopped unsalted peanuts
  • 1 lemon
  • mint

Preparation :

Prepare the noodles following the instructions.

Cut meat into strips and chopped peanuts.

Peel the cucumber and carrots and cut into julienne strips and put them in a bowl.

Brown the meat in a skillet for 3 minutes, then add the beef and noodles, nems cut into three, into the bowl containing carrots and cucumbers.

Mix in a bowl of sauce for nems and lemon juice and pour into the bowl.

Add the crushed peanuts and chopped mint, mix well.

Serve.

Tips : You can add peeled shrimp.