Smacked Cucumber Salad

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This elemental broadside comes unneurotic successful nary clip flat, aft the cucumber has been smacked (which immoderate cooks find a therapeutic room exercise) and salted. Breaking up the cucumber successful that mode softens the rootlike and loosens the seeds.

Palm sweetener is disposable astatine Latino and immoderate Asian markets. Light soy sauce, which is thinner than regular soy sauce, is disposable astatine Asian markets.

The cucumber needs to rest, salted, for 30 minutes.

Ingredients

1 ample cucumber, preferably integrated (unwaxed)
2 teaspoons salt
2 1/2 tablespoons plain atom vinegar
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons thenar sweetener (jaggery) oregon packed airy brownish sweetener (see headnote)
2 teaspoons chile oil
2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
1 spoon airy soy condiment (see headnote)

Adapted from “Chinatown Kitchen: From Noodles to Nuoc Cham,” by Lizzie Mabbott (Mitchell Beazley, 2015).

Tested by T. Susan Chang.

Published August 31, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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