Smashed Cucumber Salad

Name: Smashed Cucumber Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 cucumbers, ends trimmed; 2 tbsp sesame seeds; 15 g coriander, finely chopped; 1 tbsp sesame oil; 1 garlic clove, grated; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 red serrano chilli, thinly sliced; 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Salads

By Fi Buchanan

Published 2023

About

Smashing cucumbers isn’t just gratuitously violent fun; the light dressing clings to the newly bashed craggy interior. This salad improves with an hour or so of resting in the fridge, so it’s cold and intense when you eat it – ideally, with Sesame Miso Noodle Salad.

Ingredients

2 cucumbers, ends trimmed
15 g coriander, finely chopped
1 red serrano chilli, th

Dinner
Summer
August
Vegan

Method

Make the dressing in a wide shallow bowl by whisking together the vinegar, soy sauce, oil and garlic.

Wrap the cucumber loosely in cling film or a clean tea towel and, using a rolling pin, bash it four or five times along its length. Aim to crack the cucumber and break it apart rather than pulp it. Unwrap it and slice it into even pieces on a diagonal. Add the cucumber to the bowl with