# Smacked cucumber salad with sumac onions

This is a smack cucumber salad with sumac onions and radishes.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: Mediterranean
- Category: Salad
- Language: en

## 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

## Instructions

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

## Equipment

- bowl
- rolling pin
- knife
- salad bowl
- dry pan
- mandolin
- mixing bowl
- microplane
- plate

## 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.

## Source

- Original video: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS51sdNGE/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/6269d8a2-22ab-4d29-965e-56068c2667e7
- Extracted: 2025-12-27

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