Cucumbersoupwithwasabiavocadocream Recipes

Steps:

• Purée cucumbers with water, vinegar, and 2 teaspoons kosher salt in batches in a blender until smooth.
• Mash together avocado, lime juice, and remaining teaspoon kosher salt until smooth. Whisk in yogurt, wasabi paste, chives, and pepper to taste.
• Just before serving, blend soup with ice in batches until smooth. Serve topped with avocado cream.

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• Place the cucumber slices in a container and cover with cold water. Refrigerate 4 hours to overnight.
• Whisk the sour cream, vinegar, sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl until the sugar has dissolved. Drain the cucumbers and squeeze out the excess water; add to the bowl and mix to coat with dressing.

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• Combine the water and rice in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, or until rice is tender and water has been absorbed. Remove from the heat and stir in the vinegar and a pinch of salt. Set aside to cool.
• Cover a bamboo sushi mat with plastic wrap to keep the rice from sticking. Place a sheet of seaweed over the plastic. Use your hands to spread the rice evenly onto the sheet, leaving about 1/2 inch of seaweed empty at the bottom. Arrange strips of cucumber and avocado across the center of the rice. Lift the mat and roll over the vegetables once and press down. Unroll, then roll again towards the exposed end of the seaweed sheet to make a long roll. You may moisten with a little water to help seal. Set aside and continue with remaining nori sheets, rice and fillings.
• Use a sharp wet knife to slice the rolls into 5 or 6 slices. Serve cut side up with your favorite sushi condiments.

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• Mix cucumbers, sweet onion, and sea salt together in a bowl. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit for 30 minutes.
• Turn cucumber mixture into a colander set over a bowl or in a sink; let drain, stirring occasionally, until most of the liquid has drained, about 30 minutes more. Transfer drained cucumber mixture to a large bowl.
• Stir mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, dill, garlic powder, and black pepper together in a bowl with a whisk until smooth; pour over the cucumber mixture and stir to coat vegetables with the dressing.
• Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

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• Place the cucumber slices into a colander set in the sink, and sprinkle with salt. Set aside and allow to drip.
• In a salad bowl, mix together the red onion, red bell pepper, lime zest and juice, cilantro, sugar, curry powder, and hot pepper sauce until thoroughly combined and the sugar has dissolved. Drain the cucumber slices, and pat them dry with paper towels. Stir the cucumbers into the salad. Gently toss the avocados with the salad and serve.

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• Combine yogurt, half and half, salt and pepper in a large container and mix until smooth. Stir in avocados, cucumbers, onion and chicken broth. Taste and check for seasoning. Chill overnight. Serve very cold. Garnish with chives, bacon and almonds to taste.

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• In a food processor or blender combine the cucumber, avocado and scallions. Pulse until the mixture is thoroughly chopped.
• Add broth, sour cream and lemon juice and continue to process until smooth.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste and chill for 4 to 6 hours.
• Taste for seasoning and serve in chilled bowls with garnish.

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• Boil the stock in medium pot over high heat; then add the minced garlic.
• Reduce heat to low and let simmer about 5 minutes.
• Remove the pot from heat; cool to room temperature.
• Add cucumber, avocados, herbs, pepper flakes, lemon juice, salt and pepper to the cooled stock.
• In food processor, puree in batches until smooth.
• Chill in fridge.
• Serve soup in bowls garnished with yogurt, paprika and radish slices.
• Note: If you can't find chervil and/or tarragon, substitute with coriander or other fresh herbs.

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• Combine ingredients and mix until blended.

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• About twenty minutes before you want to start working, set the cream cheese out on the counter to soften. (You can skip this step, if necessary, but it will mean a bit more effort in the next step, mixing the cream cheese with the wasabi.)
• When the cream cheese is softened, combine the wasabi powder and water to make a smooth paste. Mix the cream cheese in with the wasabi paste until it is combined.
• Wash the cucumbers well and then peel them lengthwise in alternating strips.
• Slice the cucumbers into disks about an eighth to a quarter inch thick.
• Top each cucumber slice with a fold of smoked salmon.
• Put a ½ tsp. of cream cheese atop the salmon.
• Secure each appetizer with a toothpick.
• Serve on a tray.
• Note: Takes a half hour of active labor plus about twenty minutes to soften the cream cheese.

Steps:

• Very thinly slice cucumbers crosswise with slicer; toss with 1 teaspoon salt and drain in a colander 15 minutes. Rinse cucumbers under cold water, then squeeze handfuls to remove excess water; pat dry.
• Stir together wasabi powder and water in a bowl and let stand 5 minutes. Add vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce, whisking until sugar has dissolved. Add cucumbers and toss well.

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• Cut the cucumber lengthways into four and scoop out the seeds.
• Depending on preference, slice each quarter lengthways into thick or thin strips.
• On your work bench lay out a sushi mat or cling film (you can also roll by hand - which i find much easier).
• Place a sheet of nori on your workspace shiny side down.
• Put a layer of rice on your nori leaving a gap of approx 1 inch around the sides. (how much or how little rice you put on depends on your personal preference, just beware! your roll may end up morbidly obese instead of just fat).
• On the side closest to you put a line of wasabi paste on the rice - use your finger to do this.
• Place the cucumber strips on top of the wasabi.
• Fold the nori "lip" nearest to you over and begin rolling up the sushi like a swiss roll. Everybody rolls sushi in a different way, find what works best for you.
• Gently wet the last "lip" of the nori and stick it to the outside of the rolled log.
• Roll log onto its seam and leave for a few minutes.
• Dip a sharp knife into cold water and allow the excess to drp off but do not dry.
• Slice the log into pieces, I like a 1/2 inch slice personally. Make sure you dip and drip between each cut.
• Arrange on a plate and serve with either shoyu or tzatziki.

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• In a large bowl, combine sour cream, sugar, vinegar, salt and dill. Add cucumbers; toss to coat. Chill for at least 30 minutes.

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• Cut 5 cucumbers in to 3" chunks.
• Place half in a food processor or blender with 2 tablespoons of honey and process until smooth.
• Pour mixture through a cheesecloth lined strainer into a bowl.
• Puree remaining chunks of cucumber, (without honey), and strain through cheesecloth into same bowl.
• Peel, seed and thinly slice remaining cucumbers and place slices in a separate bowl.
• Add vinegar and remaining 2 tablespoons of honey and toss to coat.
• Cover and chill both bowls of cucumber for at least 8 hours.
• Using a fine-mesh strainer and the back of a spoon, squeeze the juice from pureed cucumber mixture. Discard the solids.
• Place half the marinated cucumber slices, avocado and 1 and 3/4 cups cucumber juice in blender or food processor and process until smooth.
• Repeat with remaining cucumber slices and 1 and 3/4 cups of juice. Reserver any remaining juice for another use, if desired.
• Stir in chopped dill, salt and pepper.
• Spoon into serving bowls and garnish with cracked black pepper and dill sprigs if desired.

Steps:

• Mix the wasabi with 1/2 teaspoon warm water in the bottom of a mixing bowl and let it stand for 5 minutes.
• Peel the cucumbers, cut each one in half lengthwise, and use a melon baller or spoon to scoop out the seeds. slice thinly widthwise.( if using english hothouse just cut in half lengthwise and slice thinly).
• Add the vinegar and sugar to the wasabi and whisk until smooth.
• Whisk in the sesame oil, salt and pepper. Just before serving, add the cucumbers, green onion, and sesame seeds to the dressing and mix well.

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• Peel cucumber and cut into 4 pieces. Quarter avocado, removing pit, and peel. Cut scallion into large pieces. In a blender purée all ingredients until smooth and season with salt and pepper.
• Serve soup garnished with coriander.

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• Cut cucumber into 3 equal pieces, then coarsely chop 2 pieces. Quarter avocado lengthwise, then pit, peel, and coarsely chop one half.
• Blend together chopped cucumber, chopped avocado, scallions, minutest, buttermilk, water, and 1 teaspoon salt in a blender until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Chill soup, uncovered, 15 minutes.
• Cut remaining cucumber and avocado into 1/4-inch pieces and stir into soup. Season with salt. Thin with additional water if desired.