Steps to Prepare Ultimate Spicy Cucumber Banchan

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, spicy cucumber banchan. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Spicy Cucumber Banchan is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Spicy Cucumber Banchan is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have spicy cucumber banchan using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Spicy Cucumber Banchan:

1. Prepare 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. Prepare 1.5 Tablespoons sugar
6. Make ready 3.5 Tablespoons distilled white vinegar
7. Take 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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