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    Home » Side Dishes

    Thai Cucumber Salad

    Posted: Mar 17, 2020 · Updated: Apr 10, 2020 by Tonje

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    Thai cucumber salad comes together incredibly easily, and is a refreshing side salad to serve with your favorite Thai dishes.

    Jump to:
    • 🥘 Ingredients
    • 🔪 Instructions
    • 💭 Top tips
    • 🥗 Serving suggestions
    • 🍲 Leftovers
    • 📋  Frequently asked questions
    • 🍴   More easy vegetable side dishes
    • Recipe

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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.
    Cucumber salad in a wooden bowl with two forks on the side.

    🥗 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:

    • Vegan green Thai curry
    • Thai chicken noodle soup
    • Thai yellow chicken curry

    🍲 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

    • Tomato and cucumber salad
    • Ratatouille
    • Honey sriracha brussels sprouts

    Recipe

    Thai Cucumber Salad

    Thai cucumber salad comes together so quick and easily, and is a refreshing side salad to serve with your favorite Thai dishes.
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    Created by: Tonje
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    Prep Time 5 minutes mins
    Cook Time 0 minutes mins
    Total Time 5 minutes mins
    Course Side Dish
    Cuisine Thai
    Servings 4
    Calories 86 kcal
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    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cucumber
    • ½ small red onion
    • 3 tablespoon roughly chopped peanuts
    • ½ teaspoon fish sauce
    • ½ teaspoon agave syrup (or honey or sugar)
    • ½ teaspoon rice vinegar
    • ½ 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

    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 omited to suit your dietary requirements.

    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.
     

    Nutrition

    Calories: 86kcalCarbohydrates: 7gProtein: 3gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 62mgPotassium: 195mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 54IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 22mgIron: 1mg
    Keyword cucumber salad, dairy free, egg free, gluten free, thai side dish
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