Smacked cucumber salad with sumac onions

Name: Smacked cucumber salad with sumac onions
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: onion, sliced nice and thin; sumac; cider vinegar; salt; cucumbers; coriander seeds; 2 tablespoons oil; dried mint; radishes; radish leaves; 1 garlic clove; lemon zest; mint; dill; pepper; 1 tablespoon oil; 0.5 lemon juice; yogurt

30m

Serves 1

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Smacked cucumber salad with sumac onions

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30m

Serves 1

Directions

1Slice your onion nice and thin.
2Add the sliced onions to a bowl with sumac, cider vinegar, and some salt.
3Get your hands in there and start to break the ingredients down.
4Let the onions pickle for about half an hour.
5Smack the cucumbers using a rolling pin, gently but firmly, to break open the cells.
6Coarsely tear away the cucumber with your hands or a knife and put them into a salad bowl.
7Add some salt to the cucumbers and tumble them to ensure the salt gets in contact with all the cucumber.
8Toast the coriander seeds in a dry pan for 30 seconds until they become fragrant.
9Heat about two tablespoons of oil.
10Pour the hot oil over some dried mint to help dress the salad.
11Pick off some leaves from the radishes.
12Slice the radishes nice and thin on a mandolin.
13Drain off any excess liquid from the cucumbers that have been sitting in salt for about 20 minutes.
14Add the drained cucumbers to a mixing bowl, along with the sliced radishes and some of the radish leaves.
15Microplane in one clove of garlic.
16Add some lemon zest, toasted coriander seeds, and the pickled onions to the mixing bowl.
17Add some fresh mint and dill.
18Season with a little bit of salt and pepper.
19Add a tablespoon of oil and the juice of half a lemon.
20Tumble all the ingredients together.
21Mix the salty cucumber water (strained earlier) into your yogurt.
22Spread a little bit of the yogurt mixture all around the plate.
23Place the crunchy salad on top of the yogurt.
24Add a few more coriander seeds over the top.
25Finish off with the mint oil.

Ingredients

onion, sliced nice and thin
sumac
cider vinegar
salt
cucumbers
coriander seeds
2 tablespoons oil
dried mint
radishes
radish leaves
1 garlic clove
lemon zest
mint
dill
pepper
1 tablespoon oil
0.5 lemon juice
yogurt

Equipment

bowlrolling pinknifesalad bowldry panmandolinmixing bowlmicroplaneplate

Tips

When slicing onion, you want some texture and crunch to it, so do not slice it too thin.
When smacking cucumbers, gently but firmly break open the cells.
When slicing radishes with a mandolin, go carefully and slowly.

Smacked cucumber salad with sumac onions

30m

Serves 1

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Smacked cucumber salad with sumac onions

tiktok.com

30m

Serves 1

Directions

1Slice your onion nice and thin.
2Add the sliced onions to a bowl with sumac, cider vinegar, and some salt.
3Get your hands in there and start to break the ingredients down.
4Let the onions pickle for about half an hour.
5Smack the cucumbers using a rolling pin, gently but firmly, to break open the cells.
6Coarsely tear away the cucumber with your hands or a knife and put them into a salad bowl.
7Add some salt to the cucumbers and tumble them to ensure the salt gets in contact with all the cucumber.
8Toast the coriander seeds in a dry pan for 30 seconds until they become fragrant.
9Heat about two tablespoons of oil.
10Pour the hot oil over some dried mint to help dress the salad.
11Pick off some leaves from the radishes.
12Slice the radishes nice and thin on a mandolin.
13Drain off any excess liquid from the cucumbers that have been sitting in salt for about 20 minutes.
14Add the drained cucumbers to a mixing bowl, along with the sliced radishes and some of the radish leaves.
15Microplane in one clove of garlic.
16Add some lemon zest, toasted coriander seeds, and the pickled onions to the mixing bowl.
17Add some fresh mint and dill.
18Season with a little bit of salt and pepper.
19Add a tablespoon of oil and the juice of half a lemon.
20Tumble all the ingredients together.
21Mix the salty cucumber water (strained earlier) into your yogurt.
22Spread a little bit of the yogurt mixture all around the plate.
23Place the crunchy salad on top of the yogurt.
24Add a few more coriander seeds over the top.
25Finish off with the mint oil.

Ingredients

onion, sliced nice and thin
sumac
cider vinegar
salt
cucumbers
coriander seeds
2 tablespoons oil
dried mint
radishes
radish leaves
1 garlic clove
lemon zest
mint
dill
pepper
1 tablespoon oil
0.5 lemon juice
yogurt

Equipment

bowlrolling pinknifesalad bowldry panmandolinmixing bowlmicroplaneplate

Tips

When slicing onion, you want some texture and crunch to it, so do not slice it too thin.
When smacking cucumbers, gently but firmly break open the cells.
When slicing radishes with a mandolin, go carefully and slowly.