
Cucumber salad with pickled red onions
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus steeping
- Easy
- Serves 8
This light and crunchy salad makes a cooling accompaniment to spicy dishes
- Gluten-free
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
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Thai prawn, squash & pineapple curry
Have a crowd to feed? Keep a batch of Thai green curry paste in the freezer and use in this colourful curry with coconut milk and Asian aromatics
Toasted coconut rice
Create a fragrant side dish by using Thai rice, coconut and fresh lime leaves for a citrus kick. It's great with curries
- 25g sugar
- 50ml Japanese vinegar
- 1 large red onionfinely sliced into rings
- 1 large cucumberhalved, deseeded then diced
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal28
- fat0glow
- saturates0g
- carbs6g
- sugars5g
- fibre1g
- protein1g
- salt0.1g
Method
step 1
Pour 100ml water into a saucepan. Add the sugar and vinegar and bring to the boil. Put the onion into a bowl, then pour over the hot liquid and leave for 5 mins. Add the cucumber and set aside to steep and cool.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2013
Comments, questions and tips (4)
Overall rating
LisaPA
Would be great if recipes were clear on what is meant by "large onion" and "large cucumber" - I had to double the liquid. I also sliced the cuke rather than chunked it and used less sugar, since rice vinegar already has sugar added. Tasty with a tuna melt.
stevehayle
Well, a large onion is bigger than a medium onion, but not as big as a very large onion. Same applies to cucumbers. Hope this helps!

Gerry Howley
Simple and really tasty. Goes great with curries etc.
lorryfran
This was delicious. But I added red wine instead of the Japanese wine and 1/2 cup of large Risoni and a couple of small tomatoes to give it extra coulour.
tyleri
This worked well with white vinegar (didn't have japanese), and I added a little chopped dill just before serving. A very refreshing accompaniment to a curry