Cucumber salad. Salad of "broken" cucumbers with shrimp Broken cucumbers. Photo

15.12.2021Heading: Kinds

Cucumber salad- appetizer salad with original preparation. The dish belongs to Chinese cuisine. Cucumbers are very tasty, spicy and unusual. Great to serve this dish with rice, boiled potatoes. Cucumbers "beat" so that they are better saturated with aromatic dressing. I added roasted peanuts to the cucumbers, original recipe sesame is used.

Ingredients

To prepare a salad of beaten cucumbers you will need:

garlic - 2 cloves;

young cucumbers - 4 pcs.;

chili pepper - 1/4 pc.;

coarse salt - 0.5 tsp;

sugar - 0.5 tsp;

coriander, freshly ground black pepper, paprika - 1/4 tsp each;

rice vinegar (or any - 6%) - 1-2 tbsp. l.;

soy sauce - 2 tbsp. l.;

sesame oil (or any refined) - 1 tbsp. l.;

roasted peanuts (or sesame) - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking steps

Next, hit each half of the cucumbers several times with the wide side of the knife or rolling pin until it crunches, the cucumber should kind of burst. Just do it without fanaticism!

Sliced sliced cucumbers.

Drain the released liquid from the cucumbers, add chopped garlic and finely chopped chili peppers to them.

Pour in soy sauce and sesame oil, add paprika, coriander, black pepper, chopped peanuts and a pinch of sugar.

Good appetite!

broken cucumbers- one of the varieties of quick pickled cucumbers in the Chinese style. If you are tired of classic vegetable salads with cucumbers and want something unusual and hot with pepper, then feel free to cook them. To taste, Chinese cucumbers are as spicy as they are, only the technology for their preparation is somewhat different.

Hearing for the first time about such an appetizer as Chinese smashed cucumbers, I was surprised. It turns out that the recipe for beaten Chinese cucumbers really provides for beating them, as a result of which they release juice, as a result of which they marinate faster.

A salad of beaten cucumbers is prepared in a matter of minutes, however, in order for the cucumbers pickled in this way to marinate well, as well as during cooking, you will need to wait at least 30 minutes.

Ingredients:

Garlic - 3-4 cloves,
Cucumbers - 5-6 pcs.,
Soy sauce - 4 tablespoons,
Chili pepper - 1/4 pod,
Ground black pepper - a pinch
Olive or sesame oil - 2 tablespoons,
Apple or rice vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Beaten cucumbers - a step by step recipe with a photo

To prepare broken cucumbers, we take large fruits, with juicy pulp, in which seeds have already formed. Cucumbers should be washed. Then cut them in half lengthwise with a sharp knife.

Extract the pulp from the resulting cucumber boats. It is convenient to do this with a coffee or teaspoon, walking along the border of the cucumber pulp with its walls. Next, using the same spoon, remove the pulp. This is how the finished boats for cooking broken cucumbers should look like.

Place the cucumbers on a cutting board with the back side up. Now the most interesting procedure - we will beat them. In many recipes for broken cucumbers that I have come across on the net, it is recommended to beat them off with the tip of a wide knife placed parallel to the cucumbers. Tried - not convenient. Hammer for chops is also not suitable. The best item that can beat off cucumbers is makogon or, in another way, a pusher. Wooden, which used to be mashed potatoes. A small wooden pestle from a mortar will also work.

So, with sharp and strong enough blows we beat cucumbers. Of course, one should not overdo it here. We need to ensure that the boats crack only in 1-2 places, and the cucumber pulp itself becomes more juicy.

After this procedure, cut the beaten cucumbers lengthwise into strips 1 cm thick. Cut each strip obliquely (at an angle) into 2 cm segments.

Place the cucumbers in a bowl. Add to them the garlic passed through the press and finely chopped chili peppers.

Sprinkle them with ground black pepper.

Drizzle them with soy sauce.

In order for the salad of beaten cucumbers to turn out spicy, season it with vinegar. Vinegar for cooking beaten cucumbers in Chinese is recommended to use rice, but since not every home has this product, take plain table or affordable apple cider vinegar. I used apple cider vinegar.

Drizzle cucumbers with vegetable oil. Preferably sesame, the dish is after all Chinese, or olive, if there is none.

Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

Smashed cucumbers in Chinese place in the refrigerator to marinate, covering the bowl with cling film. Transfer the finished spicy pickled cucumbers to a plate, sprinkle with sesame seeds heated in a pan. Since this appetizer is considered Chinese, it is best served with rice, but such cucumbers with young potatoes are no less tasty, and especially with fried meat or.

Broken cucumbers. Photo

Cucumbers remain the most popular vegetable on most people's tables. They can be eaten fresh, prepared for future use in various ways and used in salads.

Prepare a salad of beaten cucumbers with cilantro. In Asian countries, before preparing cucumber salad, it is customary to break the fruits with a knife laid flat on top. Beaten cucumbers are better saturated with spices and the taste of the salad is more saturated.

We will need:

Cucumbers, preferably long or medium fruits: 0.5-0.6 kg;
Carrots - 90 g;
Cilantro and (or) green onions, parsley: 20 g;
Garlic: 3-4 cloves;
Spices - 2 tsp (pepper, ground, black and red hot, coriander, ginger);
Salt - to taste;
Vinegar (9%): 20-30 ml;
Vegetable oil - 50 ml;
Soy: 20-30 ml;
Sugar - 20 g.

How to cook:

1. Cucumbers are washed and cut off the tips.

2. A knife blade is laid flat on each cucumber and beaten at half strength. The cucumber should burst, but not shatter into small fragments.

3. After that, the cucumbers are cut into pieces 3-4 cm in size.

3. Grate the carrots. To do this, you need a special grater, one on which vegetables are rubbed for Korean salads. If it is not there, then the carrots are cut with a knife into the thinnest straw possible. The onion is finely chopped. Instead of onions or along with them, you can take a few sprigs of cilantro if there are lovers of this spicy herb in the family.

4. Do the same with garlic as with cucumbers. Press the peeled cloves with a knife and cut into pieces.

5. Prepare dressing from oil, spices, vinegar, sugar and soy.

6. Transfer the vegetables to a bowl and pour over the dressing. Salt is added if necessary. Leave the cucumber salad for about one hour.

Salad goes well with meat and potato dishes.

If desired, a few sesame seeds can be added to the salad of beaten cucumbers.

Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: Not specified

Smashed cucumbers are nothing more than cucumber salad, but with an unusual combination of ingredients and soy sauce dressing. The most successful salad is obtained from large, juicy cucumbers with a lot of pulp. The middle with seeds is cut out, leaving only dense pulp near the walls. After slicing, the cucumbers are marinated with soy sauce, vinegar and aged for at least an hour, but it is better to leave for three hours or overnight, putting them in the refrigerator. And cucumbers get their final taste after adding garlic, herbs, hot peppers and oil. The oil in the original Chinese recipe for beaten cucumbers is recommended to use sesame, but in our conditions you can replace it with a more affordable olive or sunflower oil. Believe me, this dish will become a hit among yours.

Ingredients:

- large cucumbers - 2 pcs. or 3 medium cucumbers;
- dark soy sauce - 2 tbsp. l;
- rice vinegar - 1 tbsp. l;
- sesame or olive oil - 2 tbsp. l;
- salt - to taste;
- sugar - a pinch;
- garlic - 2-3 large cloves;
- hot pepper - 0.5 pod (to taste);
- green cilantro or parsley - a few branches.

Recipe with photo step by step:

Wash cucumbers well under cold water, dry and cut off the tips on both sides. Cut in half lengthwise.

Then, using a teaspoon with a sharp spout, cut out the inside of the cucumber, select the pulp with seeds. We leave a little near the peel, about 1-1.5 cm on each side. We discard the cut-out pulp, we will not need it (or we use it in other salads, in okroshka).

Turn the cucumber boats cut side down. We cover with a plastic bag and hit the handle of the knife several times so that the cucumbers become softer and give more juice. We cut the broken cucumbers into half rings 0.5-1 cm thick.

Transfer to a deep bowl. Sprinkle cucumber slices with rice vinegar, salt, season with a pinch of sugar. Leave for a few minutes for the salt and sugar to dissolve. Add soy sauce.

Thoroughly mix the cucumber salad. Cover, put in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Stir several times so that the cucumbers evenly absorb the marinade.

Shortly before serving, add finely chopped garlic, chopped cilantro or parsley to the cucumber salad. Season with hot pepper, cut into small cubes, or add a couple of pinches of chili powder. We mix everything.

Drain off excess marinade. We dress the salad with vegetable oil. We taste, adjust if necessary. At this stage, you can add sesame seeds by drying them in a dry frying pan until golden brown.

We shift the salad into a tall bowl and serve the beaten cucumbers slightly chilled with fried meat, boiled rice or potatoes. Bon Appetit!

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Ingredients:

Cucumbers - 3 pcs.

Shrimps - 200 gr.

Chili pepper - 1 piece

Garlic - 1-2 cloves

Rice vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.

Soy sauce - 2 tbsp.

Sesame oil - 0.5 tsp

Vegetable oil -50 ml.

Sesame seed.

How to cook:

Mix vegetable oil + sesame oil in a bowl and heat in the microwave. Add grated garlic, chopped chili pepper. Stir and pour over shrimp. Leave to marinate for 30 minutes.

Wash cucumbers, peel, cut in half and remove the core.

With a rolling pin or the side of a large knife, beat off the cucumbers (they should crack with a crunch). This is necessary in order for the cucumbers to pickle quickly. Beat without fanaticism.

Cut diagonally into large pieces.

Salt cucumbers, add vinegar and let stand for 15-20 minutes

Take out the cucumbers and squeeze them well. Combine with shrimp. Add soy sauce. Mix. You can add a pinch of sugar if you like. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Let the salad stand for 5 minutes, make friends, feel each other. This is delicious.

This salad is served in a cafe near my house. There are recipes for such a salad on the site, try my version, I hope you like it.
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