Asian · Chinese · side

Smashed Cucumber Salad

Name: Smashed Cucumber Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Cuisine: Asian, Chinese
Ingredients: 400 g Cucumber (trimmed); 0.25 tsp Salt (for draining); 1 tbsp Rice Vinegar; 1 tbsp Tamari; 1 clove Garlic (finely grated); 1 tsp Sesame Oil; 0.5 tsp Chili Flakes; 1 tsp Sesame Seeds

Smashed cucumbers dressed in tamari, rice vinegar, sesame oil, garlic and chili flakes. Toss them just before serving so they stay crisp.

Smashing the cucumbers opens the flesh so the dressing soaks in instead of sliding off the skin. Salting draws out water, which keeps the salad from going thin once dressed; pat the pieces dry well before they meet the dressing. Use thin-skinned cucumbers with small seeds, and peel thick-skinned ones in strips first. The salt is mostly patted away, so the finished dish tastes seasoned rather than salty. It goes with steamed rice and tofu, dumplings or grilled pork.

VeganGluten-FreeDairy-FreeLow-CarbNut-FreeNo-Cook

25 minstart to table

10 min prep · 15 min hands-offServes272 kcal a serving

Cook · 25 min

Against your pantry

Make an account and fill your pantry — then every recipe opens with what you’re short.

Chunks of smashed cucumber in a dark dressing with sesame seeds and chili flakes in a shallow bowl.

Ingredients

Ticks stay put if you leave and come back.

Nothing ticked yet

Method

Read it through once before you start the pan.

Per serving

The numbers, if you want them.

Calories

3 g

Protein

8 g

Carbs

4 g

Fat

2 g

Fiber

Estimated from USDA FoodData Central, for the recipe as written.

Iron, folate, potassium — and the rest.

Pro reads them off the ingredients above, and totals your day in the journal.

See what Pro adds

Cook these next.

Cook it with your hands full.

One step a screen, a timer wherever the step gives a time, and one big button to the next. Free, no account.