Chinese
Pai Huang Gua (Smashed Cucumber Salad)
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Pai Huang Gua (Smashed Cucumber Salad) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Lay the cucumbers on a cutting board and smash them firmly with the flat side of a knife or a rolling pin until they split and crack.
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Cut the smashed cucumbers into rough bite-size chunks.
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Toss the cucumber with the salt in a colander and let it drain for 10 minutes to pull out excess water, which keeps the salad crisp.
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Mince the garlic finely.
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Whisk the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, sesame oil, chili oil, and garlic into a dressing.
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Pat the cucumber dry and toss with the dressing.
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Let it sit 5 minutes so the flavors soak in, then serve chilled or at room temperature.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pai Huang Gua (Smashed Cucumber Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pai Huang Gua (Smashed Cucumber Salad) carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic) |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 90 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 6 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 980 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pai Huang Gua (Smashed Cucumber Salad) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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