Speedy Asian Cucumber Salad
By @chef1
A refreshing and quick Asian cucumber salad with a bright and flavorful dressing. Optional chicken sausage adds substance.
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Ingredients
- ●1 large cucumber
- ●1/4 cup, thinly sliced shallots
- ●1/2 lb, sliced thinly chicken sausage
- ●2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- ●1 tablespoon soy sauce
- ●1 tablespoon sesame oil
- ●1 teaspoon sugar
- ●1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ●1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- 1Slice the cucumber thinly. Peel if the skin is thick.
- 2In a bowl, combine the sliced cucumber and shallots. Add the cooked chicken sausage, if using.
- 3In a small bowl, whisk together the rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and red pepper flakes (if using).
- 4Pour the dressing over the cucumber mixture and toss gently to coat.
- 5Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds, if desired.
- 6Serve immediately.
Recipe details
- Cuisine
- Asian
- Category
- Salad
- Preparation
- 43 minutes
- Cooking
- 0 minutes
Estimated total: 43 minutes. Planning estimate: stated duration ranges use their midpoint; standard preparation, heating and handling allowances are included. Overlapping tasks are counted once. Resting/chilling is included in total time.
How these estimates were calculated
- Initial setup: 5 min planning allowance (setup)
- Prep shallots: 10 min planning allowance (vegetable_prep)
- Prep chicken sausage: 5 min planning allowance (simple_prep)
- Slice cucumber: 10 min planning allowance (vegetable_prep)
- Whisk dressing ingredients: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Combine cucumber, shallots, sausage: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Pour dressing and toss: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Sprinkle sesame seeds: 2 min planning allowance (garnish)
- Serve salad: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Thinly slice shallots
- Slice thinly (optional)
- Thinly slice cucumber, peel if needed
- Add optional sausage
- Optional
- cucumber: USDA large (8-1/4" long) portion weight
- Matched to raw, peeled cucumber. Recipe states to peel if skin is thick.
- shallots: USDA tbsp chopped portion weight
- Matched to raw shallots, using chopped portion for sliced.
- Matched to cooked chicken bratwurst as a generic chicken sausage. Amount is in mass (lb), so portion_id is null.
- rice vinegar: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Rice vinegar not found, substituted with generic distilled vinegar.
- soy sauce: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Matched to soy sauce made from soy (tamari) as a general soy sauce.
- sesame oil: USDA tablespoon portion weight
- Direct match for sesame oil.
- sugar: USDA tsp portion weight
- Matched to granulated sugar as a generic sugar.
- red pepper flakes: USDA tsp portion weight
- Direct match for red pepper flakes.
- toasted sesame seeds: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Toasted sesame seeds not found with a tablespoon portion. Substituted with whole, dried sesame seeds and noted the difference in state (not toasted).
- cucumber: 280 g · USDA reference 169225
- shallots: 40 g · USDA reference 170499
- chicken sausage: 226.8 g · USDA reference 172957
- rice vinegar: 29.8 g · USDA reference 172237
- soy sauce: 18 g · USDA reference 174278
- sesame oil: 13.6 g · USDA reference 171016
- sugar: 4.2 g · USDA reference 169655
- red pepper flakes: 0.9 g · USDA reference 170932
- toasted sesame seeds: 9 g · USDA reference 170150
cucumber · shallots · rice vinegar · sesame
Estimated nutrition per serving
166 calories · 12.6 g protein · 5.1 g carbohydrate · 10.6 g fat · 1.2 g fiber · 295 mg sodium
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018), ingredient-based calculation per serving. Standard USDA portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
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