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You decide<\/h3>\n<p>The heat comes from sambal oelek, and it is the one ingredient I want you to taste as you go. Half a teaspoon is a warm hum behind the sesame. A full one bites. Two and you are in a different conversation. Start low, mix, taste, add. Nobody ever ruined a cucumber salad by being careful with chili paste, but plenty of people have ruined one by dumping it in.<\/p>\n<h3>\ud83d\udd28 Sliced or smashed cucumber salad, both work<\/h3>\n<p>I have made the smashed version. You lay the cucumber flat, put the side of a heavy knife on it and lean until it cracks, then tear the pieces apart with your hands instead of cutting them. The broken faces are rough and full of hiding spots, so they grab far more dressing than clean rounds do. It is messier and it looks worse on the plate. It also tastes louder. Same dressing, same fridge time, your call.<\/p>\n<h3>\ud83c\udf57 A dressing that pulls three shifts<\/h3>\n<p>Grated garlic and ginger, rice vinegar, mirin, tamari, sweet chili sauce, maple syrup, toasted sesame oil, a hit of sambal oelek. Maple instead of honey because I like maple, that is the whole reason. What matters is that one jar gives you a dressing, a sauce and a meat marinade: pour it over raw shrimp thirty minutes before searing, over diced chicken, over thinly sliced beef or over pressed tofu. I also have an <a href=\"https:\/\/lecoupdegrace.ca\/en\/recipe\/asian-sesame-ginger-lime-dressing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian sesame, ginger and lime dressing<\/a> on the site. It is a different recipe, not a version of this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd52 The TikTok cucumber salad I ended up rewriting I saw it go by a hundred times. A guy, a cucumber, a brown sauce, and a slightly different version in every clip. 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