Sliced cucumber recipe :Spicy Thai cucumber salad

This sliced cucumber recipe I posted is an authentic Thai food recipe. In the past, long-long time ago, Thai cuisine hadn’t got much cooking technics or kitchenwares except a terracotta pot, so the technics applied during that time were boilng, dipping, frying, or salad like this recipe.

Sliced cucumber recipe :Spicy Thai cucumber salad

4 cups Cucumber, scooped and thinly sliced or chopped

½ cup Shallots, sliced

½ cup Dried shrimp, blended

4 Bird’s eye chilli, sliced

1 tbs. Fish sauce

1 tbs. Palm sugar

4 tbs. Lime juice

½ tbs. Shrimp paste (Optional) 

1. Make the dressing by mixing palm sugar, fish sauce, lime juice (and shrimp paste if you’d like). Stir.
2. Put the sliced cucumber in a bowl or a plate. Add blended dried shrimp and sliced shallot.
3. Put the dressing in 1. into the bowl and stir. Serve. 

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- http://www.bloggang.com/viewdiary.php?id=ppss&month=05-2008&date=29&group=7&gblog=22