Smashed cucumber salad
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Ingredients
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- mini or long skinny cucumbers
Smash the cucumbers with the flat of a cleaver (or a rolling pin, meat tenderizer or fist) until they split along the length.
Choosing the cucumbers
- ¾ tsp salt
- 2 cloves garlic
- cilantro
- diced Thai bird eye chilies
Finely grate 2 cloves of garlic; dice a little cilantro and the bird eye chilies.
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp hot chili oil
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- ½ tsp sugar
- 1 tsp sesame oil
Mix the dressing: 1 tablespoon each soy sauce, hot chili oil and vinegar, half a teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of sesame oil, with the garlic, cilantro and chilies.
Mixing the dressing
Lightly squeeze the cucumber and discard the liquid, then toss thoroughly with the dressing.