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Yunnan Style Smashed Cucumber Salad (Dway Ponga)
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A refreshing and flavorful Yunnan cold cucumber salad featuring smashed Asian cucumbers with a spicy, nutty, and umami-rich dressing enhanced by MSG for balanced flavor.
00:00:15 total
Serves 2
easy
Cold Starter / Salad
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Ingredients
- Asian cucumber - 200 g (about 200 g, half peeled, seeds removed, smashed and chopped into 1-inch pieces)
- Carrot - 20 g (julienned, about 1 inch pieces)
- Onion - watch the video to see (sliced thinly, about 1/8 of a medium onion)
- Tomato - watch the video to see (seeded and diced, about 1/4 of a tomato)
- Garlic - 3 cloves (3 cloves, minced)
- Spicy chili - watch the video to see (heaven facing chili, minced together with garlic)
- Toasted peanuts - 1 tablespoon (roughly chopped)
- Toasted sesame seeds - 1 teaspoon (roughly chopped)
- Cilantro - 10 g (finely minced, about 10 g (or 20 g if used alone))
- Kulantro - 10 g (finely minced, about 10 g)
- Salt - 1/4 teaspoon (to season)
- Soy sauce - 1/2 teaspoon (to season)
- Oyster sauce - 1/2 teaspoon (to season)
- MSG (monosodium glutamate) - 1/2 teaspoon (to balance the chilies and enhance umami)
- Lime juice - juice of 1 lime (juice of one lime)
- Toasted or smoked chili powder - 1 teaspoon (to add smoky heat)
Instructions
- Prepare the cucumber: Peel half of the Asian cucumber and remove the seeds. Cut into halves and lightly smash with the flat side of a knife to create grooves for the sauce to cling. Chop into 1-inch pieces and set aside.
- Prepare the chili and garlic mixture: Mince the heaven facing chili together with 3 cloves of garlic.
- Toast and chop nuts and seeds: Toast peanuts and sesame seeds until fragrant, then roughly chop.
- Prepare vegetables and herbs: Julienne about 20 g of carrot, slice about 1/8 onion thinly, dice 1/4 seeded tomato, and finely mince cilantro and kulantro (about 10 g each).
- Assemble the salad: In a bowl, combine the smashed cucumber, carrot, onion, tomato, garlic-chili mixture, toasted peanuts and sesame seeds, cilantro, and kulantro.
- Season the salad: Add 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon oyster sauce, 1/2 teaspoon MSG, 1 teaspoon toasted or smoked chili powder, and the juice of one lime. Mix thoroughly to combine all flavors.
- Serve: Serve immediately as a refreshing cold salad.
