This cold cucumber side dish, 오이 냉국, is a very refreshing summer dish. It is delicious with both cooked rice and noodles. Cucumbers and cold water seasoned with vinegar, sugar, and sesame seeds tastes cool and delicious. You can add soaked dried seaweed (미역=MiYeok=Wakame) also.
Yield: 1½ Quarts
Short Korean Lesson
- Chahn (찬) = Cold
- DdeuGeoWoon (뜨거운) = Hot
Video Instructions
Main Ingredients
- 2 Cups Cucumbers
- 1½ Cups Water
- 1½ Tbsp Green Onions
- 1 tsp Green Hot Pepper (Optional)
- 1 tsp Red Hot Pepper (Optional)
Seasoning Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp Brown Rice Vinegar or Apple Vinegar
- 2 Tbsp Sugar
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Soup Soy Sauce
- ½ Tbsp Sesame Seeds
Directions
Julienne 2 cups of cucumber thinly.
Thinly chop the green onions (1½ Tbsp) green peppers (1 tsp), and red peppers (1 tsp). These are hot peppers, but sweet peppers can be used instead to reduce the spiciness.
In a large mixing bowl, add the cucumber, 1½ cups of water, green onions, peppers, and all of the ingredients for the seasoning: 2 Tbsp vinegar, 2 Tbsp sugar, ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp soup soy sauce, and ½ Tbsp sesame seeds. Mix well until the sugar dissolves.
There are 2 ways of serving this side dish. You can make it several hours before you serve and chill it in the refrigerator. In that case, use 1½ cups of water as the recipes say. The other way is that you can serve right after you make it. In that case, use 1 cup of water, and add ½ cup of ice before serving.
When the ice melts, it will change the balance of the salt, sugar, and vinegar. So be careful about the amount of water in this recipe before you serve it.
Try this on a hot summer day. 😀 Thank you!
so yummy! we have a similar side dish in the philippines… less the red and green spicy peppers and green onions… ^__^
hi angelamhiere,
hehe.. we have some similar food.. cool ~~~
Hi Aeri,
This recipe looks so delicious and refreshing. I also looked at another blog’s recipe (Maangchi) for oinaenguk. Both yours and Maangchi’s look so delish, I don’t know which one I should choose! Maybe I’ll try both on two very hot days! Thank you 🙂
hi RedRanger123,
^^ I’m sure that maangchi unni’s recipe taste good. yep.. try both of ours. Thanks
Hi Aeri, just wondering if I can just use regular soy sauce cause I don’t have soup soy sauce?
hi Epuni,
Yes you can use regular soy sauce also. ^^
This looks really good.
I can’t wait to try it.
I saw the video on youtube and I think you have very good chopping skills.
hi Karrie,
hehe.. the knife is good.. 😉 thanks
one question, Aeri. Do you use any particular type of cucumbers such as English style or Asian, Pickling kind, etc? Thank you.
hi sandy,
Nope.. there is no particular type of cucumber for this dish.. just whatever you want will work great.. thanks 😀
My stepdaughter and I love this soup, we just ate it yesterday! Thanks!
I really love your recipes here. since i just moved out from seoul last year, and expecting a baby, i’m really craving for korean food. this helps a lot. Can you also post how to make kochori ( the cabbage salad) and the pah salad we have it with samgyupsal? it tastes like vinaigrette sauce. many thanks…
hi janice,
Congratulations for your baby.. I hope you and your baby are healthy.. so when is your due date ??
I will add your request in my list.. thanks.. take care !!!
my mom used to make this all the time when i was a kid growing up, she’d also put crushed ice in it, as well as these small japanese wheat noodles. now i make it when ever i have cucumbers in the house during the summer.
Hi Aeri, I am glad to find your blog through You Tube. I am a Malaysian but I love Korean food and has been trying out a few Korean recipes. We also have this cucumber salad in Malaysia. I hope you will continue your blog and share more Korean recipes with us.
Thank you Aeri!! The other day we had 40 celcius + 40% humidity outside and this cooled us down a lot!! ^.^
Hello Aeri,
It’s so good !
Thank you so much.
Your French Fan !
HI! I would like to know how to make samgyupsal! I was searching in your youtube channel and here and I can find it! I really don’t know to much ok korean food.. I just listen about it in a korean program… and I wanna learn to do it! is it a dificult dish? please answer to me!
i’m sorry i said I CAN’T find it! 😛 sorry my english is not too good… 😳
hi Romina,
Oh no worries.. your English is fine. ^^
I will add your request in my list. thanks 🙂
we had this in a Korean restaurant in Salt Lake City on Saturday…..I fell in love with it! So glad to find this recipe. I am so hooked on Korean food it’s ridiculous ….just tried Kimchi stew the other day….O mo!!!!! So, so good. So now I am checking this blog to see if you have the recipe for THAT!!! Ha
Thank you so much for doing this blog!!!
hi Plsherratt,
haha.. you are cute and funny. I’m excited to hear that you fell in love with Korean food. ^^ Thanks for your comment.