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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Chikuwa Cucumber
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!
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- ½ English cucumber (or Persian/Japanese cucumbers)
- 1 package chikuwa (fish cake) (5 pieces)
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Instructions
- 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. 🙂