Japanese Pounded Cucumber Salad Shojin Ryori Recipes

This is shojin ryori or vegetarian temple cooking, a Buddhist vegetarian style of cooking in Japan. There are many versions of blunt knife pounded cucumber salads but this one is very nice. Often cucumber is pounded with a blunt side of a chef's knife or small stick lightly to break down the cucumber flesh in the middle so that cucumbers can be eaten in bigger chunks and flavor able to penetrate better. Japanese, English, or hot house cucumbers work best here, but if using thick skinned American style cucumber, cut in lengthwise in half and remove seeds first before proceeding.

Provided by Rinshinomori

Categories     Vegetable

Time 16m

Yield 3 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 152.4, Fat 9.5, SaturatedFat 1.5, Sodium 686.6, Carbohydrate 16, Fiber 2.2, Sugar 7.7, Protein 2.9

This is a vegetarian style of cooking known in Japan as shojin ryori, a Buddhist vegetarian temple cooking. It is known for using ingredients found seasonally to prepare simple vegetarian temple style of cooking. Japanese sweet potato is a bit different from the American version and if you can find it, please use Japanese sweet potato which is known as satsuma imo. But, if you cannot find it, any sweet potato will work fine here since the idea is to boost the nutritional content of white rice in this recipe as well as give steamed rice some sweetness. You can alternately use combination white rice and brown rice as well. I normally cook all my rice recipes using my electric rice cooker.

Provided by Rinshinomori

Categories     Low Cholesterol

Time 30m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 4

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 251.9, Fat 0.4, SaturatedFat 0.1, Sodium 11.8, Carbohydrate 54, Fiber 1.5, Sugar 0.8, Protein 4.5