Thai cucumber salad
From njeanne 16 years ago
- 2 minutes to make
- Serves 5
attractive, sweet and spicy, goes well with curries or grilled steak.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar or Splenda shopping list
- 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar shopping list
- 1/4 cup water shopping list
- 1Tablespoon Taste of Thai garlic chili pepper Sauce shopping list
- 1 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 english cucumber, unpeeled and sliced thin shopping list
- 1/4 cup sliced red onion shopping list
- garnish: 3 Tablespoons chopped mint, 3 Tablespoons chopped peanuts shopping list
How to make it
- In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, vinegar, water, chili pepper sauce and salt. Stir, cook over a medium heat until sugar is dissolved
- Add cucumbers and onion to appropriately sized dish that will allow all the cucumber mixture to be covered with marinade.
- Pour vinegar mixture over the vegetables and let marinate for 30 minutes.
- Just before serving, sprinkle with mint and peanuts.
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
made this today - its in the fridge chilling - the smell is great - I added a little extra vinegar and since I didn't have the extact match for the chili garlic sauce I used a hot thai chili sauce and added some garlic to it came out pretty good - Im...more
ravenseyes
in Belcamp loved it
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so delicious. it's even better a day later. it's funny you say that njeanne, b/c i'm getting ready to prepare it for a potluck dinner right now!
kristennicole
in Atlanta loved it
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This dish is a great addition to satay chicken skewers. I don't add all the sugar to begin with and add it to taste. I do add the mint straightaway to sit in the marinade. I agree it's better the next day. I also add avocado sometimes when servin...more
nanny22
in loved it
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