Chinese Cucumber Avocado Salad · i am a food blog
Are you hot? We have experienced a heat wave and even think about turning on the stove makes me hot. Of course, that does not prevent me from doing crazy things like Make cheese potatoesBut I always prefer cooling dishes, without cooking when I can. And when it becomes super hot, I turn to my favorite cooling dish of all time: the cucumber salad.
I love cucumbers. They are crunchy, almost sweet, juicy and so refreshing. Especially when they are frozen and coated in an addictive sesame vinaigrette. Cucumbers are the ideal food in hot weather and the Chinese broken cucumber salad is the quintessence of the whole cool saying as a cucumber. The broken cucumber salad is one of the most popular cold dishes in China and really, it is not a surprise because it is super of itself or at the table alongside any Chinese dish.
Essentially, it is your classic broken cucumber salad but with a small twist: avocados. I love adding avocados for a cream of creamy butter with crisp cucumbers. Everything is dressed in a vinegar-vinegar-sauce-Noire toasted with sesame-somaney sauce which is tasty, sweet and addictive.
Why the salad to the cucumber lawyer?
It’s fast and easy to collect salad when you are hungry, but you don’t want to cook anything. Net cucumbers are crunchy and refreshing and avocados add weight and creamy. You might not consider salads as satisfactory, but it is certainly.
Ingredients for the perfect cucumber avocado salad
- Cucumbers. The best cucumbers to use for this salad are either a long English or a Persian. These two cucumbers are thinly, which means you don’t have to peel them. They are also almost without seed and crisp instead of water. English cucumbers are a little larger, both in diameter and length. In fact, I prefer Persian cucumbers because they are mini, but the two are perfect for this salad. Log from regular waxy cucumbers with thick skin. Usually, cucumbers are broken for Chinese cucumber salad – I usually break all cucumbers for salads, but in this case, I just cut them for aesthetic reasons. The reason for Smashing is the coarse and random, cracastic edges. Additional corners and corners absorb the sauce and know the cucumbers in the heart. To crush, simply use the side of a cleaner or a rolling pin.
- Lawyers. Lawyers are boring. There, I said it. They are capricious, can be expensive and everyone is a surprise. But, they are also worth it. There is a reason why lawyers are so popular. I still buy unrive lawyers and I mature them at home to ensure better success by cutting them. Learn more about how to choose perfect lawyers later in this post.
- I am from the sauce. There are so many soy sauces. I could write an entire blog article on soy sauce! Most good Asian grocery stores devote an entire driveway to hundreds of different types. Obviously, the best is that of your pantry, but if you get rid of or if you want to extend your soy sauce collection, be sure to go to infuse naturally. There are two main types of soy sauces available commercially: naturally stirred / fermented and chemically produced. Get the naturally or fermented breastpins for its deep aroma and flavor. We love Amoy and Lee Kum Kee. In this case, you are looking for a light soy sauce. Even better if you get the first extract / first press soy sauce.
- Chinese black vinegar. Black vinegar, also known as Zhenjiang or Chinkiang vinegar is a vinegar based on fruity rice, slightly sweet, malted and just the bit that recalls the balsamic. He adds acidity and sweetness and is a spine in Chinese cuisine. It is used in cold aperitifs (like this one!), Braised proteins and like a dip sauce for dumplings. You can use it as you would for ordinary vinegar and it will just add a more complexity. It is sold in the Asian aisle in most grocery stores, in your local or online Asian grocery store. If you don’t have one, you can underwater or ordinary white vinegar, but it will not be quite the same.
- Grilled sesame oil. Grilled sesame oil will add an incredible quantity of aroma to this dish. It’s intensely crazy, toasted and so good. It is not the same as ordinary sesame oil (which is generally used for cooking). Grilled sesame oil is made from grilled sesame seeds and is a finish oil, a bit like a very good olive oil. Our favorite brand is the Japanese, Kadoya, with its shape as a signature bottle and its yellow cap. You can find it in the Asian aisle in most grocery stores, in your local or online Asian grocery store.
- Aromatics. Garlic, red onion and coriander add additional punch to this salad. The earthworks of the garlic and the tangy sharpness of the red onion go well with the neutral justiosity of the cucumbers. For garlic, we like to buy loose garlic and locally cultivated locally, but obviously, these garlic bulbs in small net bags will also work, but they do not have so good taste. Choose a firm and heavy red onion for its size. Coriander is one of those herbs that adds an incredible amount of freshness, so stack it – assuming you have one of those people who love it.
How to choose the perfect lawyer
Ahh, the eternal question: are you going to win the lottery to the lawyer!? There are so many factors. Will your lawyer be perfectly mature? Will it get complicated and not going? Will the pit be a reasonable size or will it be larger than you thought possible?
Buy not mature: although there is no way to guarantee a perfect lawyer, I have advice for you. I prefer to buy my green and hard lawyers and let them mature at home. Yes, you have to do a little planning, but if you buy your non -ripe lawyers, this means that they will not have unpleasant bruises to people who are used too much for the entrance for maturity at the grocery store.
Let mature on the counter: after a few days of rest on the counter, your avocados will probably be ripe but not pasty, perfectly green jade without notes of brown brunette. When you keep your lawyer in your palm, it will seem heavy to you. Gently press your palm without hugging your fingertips. There should be a little to give where the avocado gives a soft pressure. It will be slightly soft but not at all pasty. It’s great listening time to use them! If you are not ready to eat them, store them in the refrigerator for a day or two.
Check maturity: another way of checking is to trigger their little dry rod nubbi (also called their naval or navel button!) And take a look at the color it is below. If it’s bright green, I know it’s good to go. If the stem does not want to move, it means it needs a little more time. And if it is rude and brown underneath, it is essentially time to cry, cut the brown pieces and make sad guacamole not quite up.
How to cut and peel a lawyer safely
The avocado hand – This is where you cut in your hand – is real. Do not cut lawyers in your hand, please! I could tell you the story of horror about how I “thread” my palm, in the words of the doctor of urgent care that stuck me together, but I think we are all adults here and that we just want to cut the lawyers in the safe way.
The safest way to cut an avocado is to place the avocado on a cutting board and cut carefully in the middle, turning around the seed, keeping your fingers away. Turn half of the lawyer and remove. Place the remaining half (with the pit) on a cloth and very carefully type your knife in the pit so that it hides. Turn the knife and remove the pit. This is slightly more dangerous than the method below.
Alternatively, if you are not at ease to remove the pit by half a-avocado, simply make another cut, lengthwise around the avocado cut in half so that you have two quarters, which makes the pit easy to tear off with your fingers. It is the safest way to remove the pit.
Once the pit has been removed, the most neat way to get your avocado out of the skin is to place the avocado, cut the side down on your cutting board and peel off the skin. Of course, if you are not concerned about aesthetics, you can simply use a spoon to remove it.
Happy days of summer salad!
I hope you burst this cucumber lawyer salad in your summer rotation. It’s really the best.
PS – If you are looking for something to serve, try this Moan Zha Jiang / Saucy Easy pork noodles,, spicy shrimp and drove of pea in snapOr Yang chow fried rice!
- 1 clove garlic ax
- 2 teaspoon Chinese black vinegar or rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoon I am sauce
- 1 teaspoon grilled sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon chili oil optional
- 1 lawyer slice
- 1/2 English cucumber slice
- 2 tablespoon red onion finely decided or finely dice
- fresh coriander ax
- grilled sesame seeds
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In a small bowl, whisk together garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil and chili oil (if you use). Taste and season with a pinch of salt if necessary.
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Prepare the vegetables: well, peel and slice the lawyer; Cut the cucumber; Slice the red onion; and chop the coriander.
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Mix cucumbers, avocado, red onion and coriander in a bowl with the vinaigrette. Finish with grilled sesame seeds, if you wish and enjoy it!
Nutritional
Chinese cucumber salad
Amount by portion
Calories 270
Fat calories 219
% Daily value *
Fat 24.3 g37%
Saturated fat 4.8 g30%
Cholesterol 0.01 mg0%
Sodium 307 mg13%
Potassium 636 mg18%
Carbohydrates 13.6g5%
7.5 g fiber31%
Sugar 2.5 g3%
Protein 3G6%
* The daily values percent are based on a diet of 2000 calories.
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