Sweet and sour cucumber salad with mint and chillies
A nice refreshing oriental-style cucumber salad. Great if you are growing your own cucumbers and are looking for interesting recipes.
Sweet and sour cucumber salad with mint and chillies | |
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Servings: | Serves 4 |
Calories per serving: | 49 |
Ready in: | 40 minutes (mostly waiting) |
Prep. time: | 40 minutes |
Cook time: | None |
Difficulty: | ![]() |
Recipe author: | Chef |
First published: | 24th October 2012 |
Best recipe reviewCucumber and mint 4.4/5 A lovely match |
Ingredients
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- 1 cucumber
- 1.5 tablespoons white sugar
- 80 ml rice vinegar or white wine vinegar
- Juice and zest from ½ a lime
- 2 hot green chillies, de-seeded and finely chopped
- 2 shallots or small onions, peeled and very thinly sliced
- 1 small bunch of mint leaves, finely chopped. Remove and discard the stalks.
- Salt to taste
Method
- Use a speed peeler to remove strips of peel from the cucumber. Quarter the cucumber lengthways and chop finely - a food processor is good for this.
- Spread the sliced cucumber on a large plate and sprinkle liberally with fine salt. Leave them to stand for 15 minutes then rinse and drain well.
- Remove any excess moisture with a paper towel.
- In the serving bowl, mix the vinegar and sugar and whisk well until the sugar is dissolved. Add the lime juice and zest and salt to taste.
- Mix in the chillies, shallots, mints and cucumbers with the dressing and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
- Mix well before serving.
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