Nice quick and easy spicy cucumber salad.
Portion for 4-6.
Goes well with vodka and hot meat dish.
Ingredients:
- 6-8 small cucumbers
- 1 green chili pepper
- 1 red chili pepper
- 4-5 cloves of garlic
- Soy sauce – 4 tbs
- Sesame oil – 2 tbs
- Rice or Apple Cider vinegar – 2 tbs
- Salt – 1 tbs
Optional Ingredients:
- Sugar – 1 tea spoon
- Anice – 1/2 tea spoon
- Vodka – 1 tea spoon
- Ginger – minced – 1 tbs
- Sesame seeds – 1 tbs
Process:
- Wash the cucumbers
- Cut in half
- Remove the seeds
- Put cored cucumbers in a plastic bag and close it.
- Beat them with a wooden mincer or a hammer. Gently, the objective is to open them up a bit so don’t overdo and create a mass out of them.
- Take cucumbers out of the bag and cut diagonally into 1/4 inch thick slices.
- Place in a mixing bowl, salt and put the vinegar in.
- Mix well
- Set aside for at least 10 mins. Preferably 30.
- Cut peppers and garlic into small pieces.
- Drain the juice from the cucumbers once the time is up.
- Mix in peppers, garlic, soy sauce and sesame oil.
- If time allows – chill in the fridge for not more than 10 minutes otherwise serve as is.
Don’t keep it marinating for too long. The salad tastes best when the cucumbers are crispy.