Smashed Cucumber Salad – 1 Crushed This

Your cooking skills mightiness non last the best, but the discussion on the street is that you’re pretty skilful at cracking things, sometimes fifty-fifty on purpose. If that’s the case, this refreshing, too real addictive smashed cucumber salad is going to last perfect for you. Above too beyond whisking upwards an extremely uncomplicated dressing, the success of this recipe comes downwards to y'all beingness able to flatten a cucumber amongst something heavy.

It actually is equally like shooting fish in a barrel equally it sounds, too past times crushing our cucumber earlier nosotros cutting it, nosotros arrive at flavors that un-smashed cucs can’t. When y'all trounce the cells inwards a vegetable, equally opposed to cutting cleanly through them, certainly compounds larn mixed together, which tin flame number inwards a significantly dissimilar flavor. 

This is non ever a skilful thing, too onions are the perfect example. Use a precipitous knife, too they’re sweetness too mild. Use a like shooting fish in a barrel knife, or that matter y'all ordered afterward seeing the infomercial at ii AM, too you’ll larn something much harsher. In fact, it’s no joke that most people who don’t similar onions, grew upwards inwards a kitchen amongst like shooting fish in a barrel knives.

However, when it comes to cucumber, these ruptured cells arrive at a to a greater extent than desirable flavor, too texture. The solely determination you’re going to bring to make, is how long to allow the cucumbers marinate inwards the dressing, if at all. Many chefs volition toss too serve immediately, piece others similar to allow the cucumbers chill inwards the dressing for a picayune piece inwards the fridge, which is the method I prefer.

You’ll simply bring to practise some tests to meet what y'all prefer, but either way, this is 1 of my all-time favorite mutual frigidness summertime side dishes, too 1 I actually promise y'all endeavor real soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for virtually half-dozen portions:
2 English linguistic communication cucumbers (about 1 1/2 pounds total weight)

1 teaspoon granulated white sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, addition to a greater extent than equally needed

2 garlic cloves, finely crushed

2 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar

(or regular rice vinegar amongst an extra pinch of tabular array salt too sugar)

1 teaspoon soy sauce

1 teaspoon sesame oil

red pepper flakes, to taste

toasted sesame seeds to garnish

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