Cucumber and Spare Ribs

Name: Cucumber and Spare Ribs
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 8 dried Chinese mushrooms or 12 fresh shiitake mushrooms; freshly ground black pepper; 1 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil; sea salt; 1 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil; 1 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil; 8 dried Chinese mushrooms or 12 fresh shiitake mushrooms; 2 large cucumbers

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

Here is another oriental recipe using spare-rib chops. It is inexpensive and full of flavour. Use hairy cucumbers if you can get them from Oriental supermarkets.

Ingredients

8 dried Chinese mushrooms or 12 fresh shiitake mushrooms
2 large cucumbers

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Soak the dried mushrooms, if using, in ¼ pt / 140 ml water for 30 minutes. If using fresh mushrooms, poach them for 5 minutes in the same quantity of water. Drain and reserve the liquid. Slice the mu