Cucumber And Hot Sauce Salad

This speedy cucumber salad is easy and delicious. The spicy zing from the hot sauce is perfectly balanced against the cool smacked cucumber. This recipe is an ingenious way to enjoy past their best cucumbers.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American, Asian

Diet Vegan, Vegetarian

Keyword cucumber salad, easy salad recipe, smacked cucumber salad

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Total Time 30 mins

Servings

Calories 409

Ingredients

2 Large Cucumbers
150 g Brown rice cooked to packet instructions and allowed to cool
20 g Dill roughly chopped
10 g Mint destemmed and roughly chopped
1 Teaspoon Sea salt
2 Tablespoons Nigella seeds

Hot sauce dressing

2 Tablespoons Hot sauce I've used Cholula Original Hot Sauce
1 Tabespoon Red wine vinegar
1 Tablespoon Maple syrup
1 Tablespoon Olive oil

Instructions

Pour all the hot sauce dressing ingredients into a measuring jug or glass and stir well to combine.
Place the two cucumbers onto a large chopping board and bash with a rolling pin until they split. Then roughly slice into 1-inch-sized pieces.
Tip the chopped cucumber into a large mixing bowl, along with the 150g of cooked brown rice, 20g of chopped dill, 10g of chopped mint, 2 tablespoons of nigella seeds and a teaspoon of salt. Toss well to combine.
Plate the cucumber salad with the hot sauce dressing drizzeled over each serving.

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