Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta

Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta.

You can cook Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta

1. Prepare 300 grams of Pasta.
2. You need 7 of cm Takuan (5 mm cubes).
3. Prepare 1 of Cucumber (thinly sliced).
4. Prepare 5 of leaves Shiso leaves (julienned).
5. It's 1 clove of Garlic (thinly sliced).
6. It's 3 tbsp of Olive oil.
7. You need of For the sauce:.
8. Prepare 3 tbsp of Sake.
9. You need 2 1/2 tbsp of each Soy sauce, mirin.
10. Prepare 100 ml of Pasta water.
11. It's of Toppings:.
12. Prepare 1 of Sesame oil, sesame seeds, lemon juice.

Takuan (Yellow Pickled Daikon), Cucumber & Shiso Leaves Pasta step by step

1. Bring water to a boil to cook the pasta. Meanwhile, thinly slice the cucumber with a mandoline, and sprinkle with a little salt. When the sliced cucumber has wilted, squeeze out the water. Cut the takuan and shiso leaves as well..
2. Add 2 tablespoons of salt (not listed) in the large pot of boiling water, and cook the pasta until al dente..
3. Put the olive oil and garlic in a frying pan, heat over low heat until fragrant, and add the sauce ingredients..
4. Add the cooked pasta, takuan, cucumber and shiso leaves to the frying pan from Step 3, and mix altogether over low heat..
5. Transfer the pasta and sauce to serving plates. Sprinkle with sesame oil and sesame seeds, and squeeze over some lemon juice to finish. Done..

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