Cucumber Salad With Roasted Peanuts and Chile
Updated July 12, 2023

- Total Time
- 15 minutes
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Ingredients
- 6Persian cucumbers (about 1 pound), cut lengthwise into thin spears, then cut crosswise into 2-inch pieces
- Kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal)
- ¼cup salted, roasted peanuts
- ¼cup cilantro leaves
- 1teaspoon red-pepper flakes
- 3tablespoons natural unsalted peanut butter
- 2tablespoons soy sauce
- 2tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar
- 1teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1small garlic clove, grated
- Chile oil, store-bought or homemade, for serving (optional)
Preparation
- Step 1
Toss cucumbers with ½ teaspoon kosher salt in a colander. Set aside to drain.
- Step 2
Chop peanuts, cilantro and red-pepper flakes together until very fine. Set aside.
- Step 3
In a large bowl, whisk together peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, garlic and ½ teaspoon kosher salt. Add up to 1 tablespoon water, if needed, to thin mixture. Transfer salted cucumbers to the bowl with dressing and toss to coat.
- Step 4
To serve, place half of the cucumber salad on the plate, sprinkle with half of the peanut mixture. Repeat with the remaining cucumber salad and peanut mixture. Drizzle with chile oil, if using, and serve immediately.
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Comments
Sweet lord and baby jesus, this is INCREDIBLE! Haha, I can't believe how good it is, I ate the entire bowl and called it dinner. Used regular cukes cause I couldn't fine the fancy ones, removed the seeds Used a grated jalapeno (no seeds) instead of the chili flakes. Used 1 tblsp soy sauce and 1 tblsp. fish sauce Used regular peanut butter and skipped the sugar Used cilantro AND mint Cried like a baby because it was so friggen good. Though I wouldn't eat it before a date (crazy burps, haha)
I don't follow the recipe at all, but it didn't turn out as described. Bad recipe.
Winelady! You are absolutely right -- thank you! We've since adjusted the recipe for clarity, suggesting that readers first cut the cucumbers lengthwise into thin spears, then to cut the spears into 2-inch segments. Looks like the food stylist cut the 2-inch segments on an angle, because they're fancy like that! This salad is delicious any way you slice it. (Seriously, I have made it three times in the last month!) Enjoy!
This salad is such a showstopper. I chopped the cucumbers into spirals and they look just beautiful. There are visual guides on how to do it properly both on instagram and TikTok.
I would skip salting the cucumbers in future - needed to rinse them off so they weren't salty!
This really needed some umph. I doubled the vinegar.