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Chinese Pickled Cucumber Salad

Chinese Pickled Cucumber Salad

This is a simple starter but it needs to be prepared half a day in advance.

Serves 4

Level of difficulty: easy

Ingredients

3 oriental cucumbers
1/2 medium-sized carrot
2 tablespoons white rice vinegar
5 cloves garlic, finely diced
1 chilli pepper, sliced
3 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon sugar

Method

Scrub cucumber skin well (do not peel).
Cut cucumbers lengthways into quarters. Cut crossways into finger-length pieces.
Slice carrot into matchstick-sized slivers.
Sprinkle 2 teaspoons of salt over cucumbers and carrot. Mix in.
Refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours (longer time equals more tender vegetables).
Rinse off salt and drain.
Add remaining teaspoon of salt, rice vinegar, garlic, chilli pepper, sugar. Mix well.
Refrigerate for a further 3 to 4 hours, mix and serve.

Notes: For a variation add a teaspoon of finely diced ginger. You can substitute the cucumber with other vegetables, such as kohlrabi, cabbage or Chinese cabbage.

Stephen Jack lives in Taiwan and writes about Chinese food.


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