Recipe: Crunchy Cucumber Salad with Pickled Mustard Seeds
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The best thing about cooking with fresh summer produce is that you don't have to do a lot with it. Each ingredient, fruit or vegetable, is so richly packed with natural flavors that a little dressing and seasoning is all it takes, to create a salad that can rival any tedious appetizer. This crunchy cucumber salad, with red onions (What wine goes well with onions?) and pickled mustard seeds (how long do mustard seeds last?), is a testament to that.
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Cucumber might seem like a bland vegetable (or to be more precise, fruit), but it has a mild, almost watery sweetness and a crisp bite, that pairs deliciously well with sweet and sour flavors, like this honey (how long does honey last?) and rice vinegar (how long does rice vinegar last?) dressing. The addition of sliced red onions gives the salad a pungent bite. Fresh dill (how long does dill last?) and mint leaves cut through the tang and spice with a mild herby sweetness. But the icing on the cake, or the seasoning on the salad, is pickled mustard seeds (how long do seeds last?). These seeds are little bombs of sweet and tart which, when bitten into, pop in your mouth like caviar.
When making this salad, muddle cucumber slices gently to release their juices, and then toss in the other ingredients and dressing right before serving to retain the cool cucumber crunch.
If planning a summer picnic or outdoor lunch, this refreshingly sweet and spicy cucumber salad is a must-try. It is so seriously easy to make, that it transforms cumbersome summer cooking into a cu-cumbersome delight!
Making Cucumber Salad
Make the dressing
For the dressing, in a small bowl, add rice (how long does rice last?) vinegar, honey, sesame oil (how long does sesame oil last?), and salt. Mix until well combined and keep aside.
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Assemble Cucumber Salad
To assemble the salad, in a large bowl add cucumber slices, and muddle gently (they shouldn't lose their shape). Add sliced onion, mint, dill, and pickled mustard seeds on top. Drizzle the dressing and toss and mix to coat all ingredients with the dressing.
Transfer the salad into a serving bowl. Drizzle more dressing and pickled mustard seeds on top if you like and serve!
Crunchy Cucumber Salad with Pickled Mustard Seeds
Ingredients
- 6 English Cucumbers, diced into thin discs
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 red onion, sliced into rings
- ¼ tsp sea salt, or to taste
- 4 sprigs of fresh mint
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tsp pickled mustard seeds
- ¼ tsp sesame oil
- A few sprigs of dill
Instructions
- To make the dressing, in a bowl combine vinegar, salt, sesame oil and honey.
- In a large bowl, add cucumber, onion, mint, dill, pickled mustard seeds, drizzle the dressing on top. Toss, mix and serve.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
176Fat
9 gSat. Fat
1 gCarbs
20 gFiber
3 gNet carbs
17Sugar
14 gProtein
5 gSodium
589 mgCholesterol
0 g
