Cucumber Salad Asian Style

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To make Asian style cucumber salad is not very complicated even though some of the cooking ingredients sometime hard to find. But you can make it as simple as you want by skip some ingredientd as per your taste.

This Malay style cucumber salad commonly served along with other spicy Malaysian dish. Same goes with Thai cucumber salad which is normally eaten as one of the main dishes together with plain rice or glutinous rice depending on the certain region in Thailand and Laos.

So, today I will shared 2 recipes of cucumber salad, Malay and Thai style.

MALAY STYLE CUCUMBER SALAD

Ingredients:-

1 cucumber
2-3 bird eye chilli
1 shallot
1 tablespoon crush peanut
1 tablespoon dried shrimp
1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste
Salt and sugar to taste

METHOD:-

- Sliced cucumber thinly.
- Pound shallot, chilli, dry shrimp and shrimp paste.
- Mix all ingredients together and taste with salt and sugar.
- Serve immediately or chill before serve.


THAI STYLE CUCUMBER SALAD

Ingredients:-

1 cucumber, shredded
1 tomato, cut small
2-3 bird eye chilli
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon dried shrimp
1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste
1 tablespoon lime/ lemon juice
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon crush peanut
Salt and brown sugar to taste

METHOD:-

- Pound garlic, chilli, dry shrimp and shrimp paste.
- Mix all ingredients together and taste with salt and sugar.
- Serve immediately.

Enjoy Asian style salad. Bon appetie!