Thai cucumber salad comes together incredibly easily, and is a refreshing side salad to serve with your favorite Thai dishes.
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🥘 Ingredients
To make this salad, you will need cucumbers, red onions and peanuts.
For the dressing we will use fish sauce, rice vinegar, lime juice and agave syrup. You can substitute honey or sugar for the agave syrup. You can also omit the fish sauce to make a vegan cucumber salad.
🔪 Instructions
Slice the cucumber and red red onions finely. Add them to a salad bowl with the chopped peanuts.
Combine fish sauce, rice vinegar, lime juice and agave syrup or other sweetener in a small bowl, then pour the mixture over the cucumbers.
Stir to combine the salad, and serve!
💭 Top tips
- Cucumber salad is definitely best served immediately.
- Use English cucumbers – these have less seeds and are more pleasant to eat.
- Slice or dice the cucumbers however you want! For a more impressive look, you can make cucumber ribbons or spirals with a spiralizer.
🥗 Serving suggestions
This salad is commonly served as a side with Thai food, but can also be enjoyed with other main courses. Here are some of my top picks:
🍲 Leftovers
Unfortunately, leftover Thai cucumber salad does not keep very well, as the dressing will make the cucumber soft and unappetizing. I highly recommend eating the salad within 5 hours of preparing it.
📋 Frequently asked questions
Is this recipe vegan? – This can be made vegetarian and vegan by omitting the fish sauce.
Is cucumber salad allergy friendly? – It is gluten free, dairy free, egg free and soy free. The salad contains nuts and fish, both which can be omitted to suit your dietary requirements.
🍴 More easy vegetable side dishes
📖 Recipe
Thai Cucumber Salad
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber
- 1/2 small red onion
- 3 tbsp roughly chopped peanuts
- 1/2 tsp fish sauce
- 1/2 tsp agave syrup (or honey or sugar)
- 1/2 tsp rice vinegar
- 1/2 lime (juice only)
Instructions
- Slice the cucumber and red red onions finely. Add them to a salad bowl with the chopped peanuts.
- Combine fish sauce, rice vinegar, lime juice and agave syrup or other sweetener in a small bowl, then pour the mixture over the cucumbers.
- Stir to combine the salad, and serve!
Notes
Leftovers
Unfortunately, leftover Thai cucumber salad does not keep very well, as the dressing will make the cucumber soft and unappetizing. I highly recommend eating the salad within 5 hours of preparing it.Top tips
- Cucumber salad is definitely best served immediately.
- Use English cucumbers – these have less seeds and are more pleasant to eat.
- Slice or dice the cucumbers however you want! For a more impressive look, you can make cucumber ribbons or spirals with a spiralizer.
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