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Chikuwa is a popular fish cake ingredient in Japan. It is used in many dishes including hot pot, deep-fried, oden, and many more. Chikuwa Cucumber is one of the quick dishes that can easily fill empty spaces in your bento box. Preparation only takes a few minutes. Enjoy!
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- 1 Persian/Japanese cucumbers (or English cucumber)
- 1 Chikuwa (fish cake) (1pkg has 5 pieces in it)
- Cut the cucumber to same length as chikuwa.
- Peel some skin off the cucumber (looks nicer and less bitter).
- Cut the cucumber into 8 equal pieces lengthwise. Then remove the seeds area so that each cucumber piece will fit inside of chikuwa. Stuff cucumber inside chikuwa.
- Cut each chikuwa cucumber in half, then cut each piece diagonally.
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Wow. That’s the fastest side dish I’ve ever seen!
I don’t call this a “recipe”… LOL!
Any idea what I could replace fishcake with ? This is a very good idea and I’d love to add something like this to the bento I make, but I don’t have a place to buy fishcake around me :/
Hi Joy! Usually Asian stores carry these in frozen section (Japanese grocery store in fridge section). I can’t think of any other food that has a hole in the middle…. do you? If you have some good ingredient to replace the chikuwa (fish cake), it would be great! 🙂
Nami, just to clarify, we can eat chikuwa straight from the package? So if I freeze chikuwa, I don’t have to cook it, just defrost it?
Hi Aubrey! Yes, chikuwa is already steamed and packed, so you can eat out of package, or heat up if you prefer. 🙂