Cucumber Salad
"By Su-Mei Yu, from Fine Cooking, issue #52. This thai-influenced salad is perfect with sate."
photo by Charmie777
- Ready In:
- 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 medium cucumbers (to yield 2 cups) or 2 small cucumbers, peeled, seeded, and thinly sliced (to yield 2 cups)
- 2 medium shallots, thinly sliced (to yield 1/4 cup)
- 6 -8 fresh bird chiles (more for a spicier relish) or 4 -6 fresh serrano chilies, cored, seeded, and minced (more for a spicier relish)
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 limes, juice of (to yield a 1/2 cup)
- 2⁄3 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped dry-roasted unsalted peanuts
directions
- In a bowl, combine all the ingredients except the peanuts. Toss gently and let sit for 15 minutes. Transfer to a serving bowl, shower with the chopped peanuts, and serve.
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Reviews
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Delicious and super easy. We loved the slight spice on this cucumber salad. Different from the ordinary and so delicious. Thanks evelyn/athens. Made for team Tasty Testers for the Asian round during ZWT9. -
Fantastic. Used what I had on hand. 3 cucs (5 ), 3 shallots (1c ), 3T chopped canned jalapenos, 1/2 c sugar, 1 1/2 t kosher salt, 2/3 c lime juice, 1/2 c lemon juice, 2 c chopped cilantro. Made several hours before use. Threw in peanuts at serving. Even my cucmber averse husband loved this. Will be great to take to events. -
Wow! This is so incredibly delicious and very easy!!!! A few simple ingredients and it's on the table!! I used 1 large English Cucumber and serrano chilies. Made for ZWT 4.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
