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Japanese Restaurant Cucumber Salad

Name: Japanese Restaurant Cucumber Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 3 min
Total time: 13 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons white sugar; 2 tablespoons rice vinegar; 1 teaspoon Asian , toasted; 1 teaspoon chili paste , sambal oelek; salt to taste; 2 large cucumbers - peeled , seeded, and cut into 1/4-inch slices

Total Time

13 min

10m prep · 3m cook

Servings

4 people

Rating

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Difficulty

Hard

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Simple and easy to make, with a sweet and spicy dressing that adds a refreshing bite. This recipe comes from a lovely, now-elderly Japanese woman friend who was a second-generation immigrant and patiently endured internment during WWII as a young girl. The cucumber salad is similar to sunomo in Japanese restaurants, but a bit more assertive. The ingredients are available in the Asian or ethnic foods sections of most metropolitan grocery stores. If you're diabetic, use sugar substitute instead of sugar with the same results. Original recipe called for 1 teaspoon MSG also.

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Ingredients

2 tablespoons white sugar
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon Asian , toasted
1 teaspoon chili paste , sambal oelek
salt to taste
2 large cucumbers - peeled , seeded, and cut into 1/4-inch slices

Instructions

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Whisk sugar, rice vinegar, sesame oil, chile paste, and salt together in a bowl. Add cucumbers and stir to coat. Allow salad to marinate for 30 minutes before serving at room temperature.

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