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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Chinese and Mongolian >> Chinese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preparation of cucumber: | 2. Half washed but unpeeled cucumber lengthwise. Remove the seeds with a spoon and discard. Slice into ca 1/2 cm / 1/5 inch pieces. Put into a bowl. | 3. Mix hot water and salt and pour it over the cucumber pieces. Leave cucumbers in water for ca 20 minutes. | 4. Dressing: | 5. Heat oil in a medium skillet. | 6. Add chilli and cook for 1-2 minutes. | 7. Add the remaining ingredients of the dressing until the sesame oil. Cook for 2 minutes. | 8. Add garlic and sesame. Cook for 1-2 minutes. Put aside. | 9. Finish Salad: | 10. Drain the cucumber pieces (after the 20 minutes in the water) and squeeze them slightly. Mix with the dressing (I do this in the skillet and put salad afterwards into a bowl) and leave the salad for 2 hours to develop its flavour. | 11. Serve as a starter or as a side dish to a chinese meal. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cooking oil	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
chili pepper	1		deseeded sliced chopped	1.25	0.2956	0.0625	0.0062
sugar	1 1/2	1/2		1208.97	302.394	0.0	0.0
ginger	1/2	teaspoon	grated	3.015	0.6446	0.0808	0.0382
dark soy sauce	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
rice vinegar	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
white wine	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
sesame oil	1/2	tablespoon		60.111999999999995	0.0	0.0	6.8
garlic clove	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
sesame seed	1/2	tablespoon	toasted	42.75	1.9642	1.3358	3.6
cucumber	1	cucumber	unpeeled	45.15	10.9263	1.9565	0.3311
hot water	150	ml		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	tablespoon		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.