Raincoat Cucumber Salad
Distinctive knife work, light and refreshing cold cucumber salad.
Ingredients
cucumber
5
refined salt
5 qian
soy sauce
3 qian
vinegar
5 fen
sesame oil
5 fen
mashed garlic
2 cloves
Instructions
1
Step 1
Wash the cucumbers. Slice them crosswise into rounds about 2 fen thick, then make a diagonal cut roughly two-thirds of the way through. Flip the cucumber over and repeat the diagonal cut from the opposite side, again two-thirds deep, so the slices fan out in a woven straw-raincoat pattern. Arrange on a plate and sprinkle with refined salt to marinate.
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Step 2
Add the soy sauce, mashed garlic, vinegar, and sesame oil in that order. Toss well just before serving.
