Tiger Vegetables Salad

老虎菜

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    as an appetizer
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Xi'an Famous Foods: The Cuisine of Western China, from New York's Favorite Noodle Shop

By Jason Wang

Published 2020

  • About

This salad’s name doesn’t come from the colors of the salad (tigers aren’t green), but from the essence. This is a fiery, sinus-clearing, aggressively herbaceous mixture that packs a wallop with cilantro, celery, green onions, and longhorn pepper slivers. Contrary to popular belief, the heat doesn’t come from chili oil, but from the raw peppers. The idea is that once you eat this, you’ll roar like a tiger . . . because you’re in so much pain.

Of course, you can make this as spicy or