Dai-style smashed cucumber salad
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- 200 g Asian cucumber
Half-peel the cucumber, halve and remove the seeds; smash the halves lightly with a knife and score little grooves with the back of the knife so the sauce clings; cut into one-inch pieces.
- heaven-facing chili
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp toasted peanuts
- 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds
Mince the chili with three cloves of garlic. Roughly chop the toasted peanuts and toasted sesame seeds together.
- 20 g carrot
- 0.125 whole onion
- ¼ whole tomato
To the cucumber in a bowl add the julienned carrot, sliced onion and seeded diced tomato.
- 1 tsp toasted or smoked chili powder
- 10 g cilantro
- 10 g culantro
Add the garlic-chili mixture, the chili powder, the nut mixture and the minced cilantro and culantro.
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- ½ tsp MSG
- 1 whole lime
Season with salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce and MSG, squeeze in the lime juice and mix very well.