Japanese Pickles - Salt pickled carrots and cucumber
Salt pickled cucumber and carrots. This quick-pickled cucumber and carrots are a great side dish for every Asian-style meal. Quick and easy fresh pickle ready in an hour.
Ingredients
- 2 small carrots
- 1 medium cucumber
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Peel the carrots and cucumber using a peeler. Make sure to leave one white centimetre strip of peel intact. But if the skin is tough peel the fruit completely.
- Sprinkle salt on the chopping board and rub and roll the carrot and cucumber in the salt.
- Place in a container. Put the lid on and place in the fridge to pickle for an hour.
- After an hour, the vegetables or fruit would have let the water out and have been pickled. Take them out of the fridge, pat them dry, slice into bite-size pieces and serve