Introduction.
Cucumber is the most common vegetable in summer, fresh and crisp, crunchy and juicy, whether cold or fried are very delicious. A cucumber 98% of the content is water, can be for the body to replenish water. Each 100 grams of cucumber contains only 15 calories, very suitable for summer diet consumption. The most frequent dish on the table in summer is to shoot cucumber, but always eat a dish, time will be bored. In fact, in addition to shoot cucumber there is a more interesting cucumber practice, that is Demoiselle cucumber, Demoiselle flower knife method cut into the cucumber, cut like a spring, can be pulled apart. It's a great way to get a refreshing and tasty drink, and it looks good and is delicious.
Demoiselle cucumber looks high, feel the need to knife deep masters to do out, in fact, the practice is very simple, only need to prepare a cucumber a pair of chopsticks and a knife on it. Cut Demoiselle knife when you should pay attention to each knife to cut to two-thirds of the depth of the cucumber, if you cut too shallow, then the knife will not be too obvious, cut too deep, then it is very easy to break, with chopsticks escort, certainly will not cut off. Next we will take a look at this light and refreshing [Demoiselle cucumber] specifically how to do it?
Ingredients
cucumber: 1, garlic: 4 cloves, soy sauce: 10ml, balsamic vinegar: 5ml, sugar: 1g, sesame oil: 10ml, peanut oil: 10ml, pepper: 10 grains
Steps
Step 1, first we have to prepare to make this [Demoiselle cucumber] need to use all the ingredients: cucumber with a paring knife to peel off the skin and then wash, garlic peeled off the outer skin wash and spare, and then prepare a pair of chopsticks.
Step 2: Place the chopsticks on both sides of the cucumber, and then use a kitchen knife to cut from right to left, the knife and chopsticks were 90 ° perpendicular to the uniformity of the whole cucumber cut into thin slices, the thinner the cut Demoiselle cucumber will be able to pull the longer, like a spring.
Step 3, and then give the cucumber turned over, so that the previously cut side down, chopsticks are still placed on both sides of the cucumber. Still working from right to left, slant the knife and chopsticks at about a 45° angle and evenly slice this side of the cucumber as well. Then pick up the cucumber and gently pull it with your hands, and the perfect Demoiselle cucumber is cut.
Step 4: Put the cut Demoiselle cucumber into a plate, put the garlic into a bowl, add soy sauce, sesame oil, balsamic vinegar and sugar, mix well.
Step 5: Pour the mixture evenly over the cucumbers in straw raincoat, heat the frying pan until the center of the palm is hot, pour in the peanut oil, add the peppercorns to burst out the flavor, and then pour the hot oil onto the straw raincoat cucumbers when the oil temperature reaches 80% hot.
Tips
1, the cucumber should be selected tender, try to choose a more straight kind, do not choose that kind of curved cucumber, especially difficult to cut.
2, cut to the chopsticks at the time to note to stop, do not use too much force to cut, will be cut chopsticks bad.