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Cucumber and Mango Salad With Chili Lime Dressing

Top the cucumber and mango salad with chili lime dressing with toasted sesame seeds, serve with grilled meat and have a meal with Southeast Asian flavors.

Top the cucumber and mango salad with chili lime dressing with toasted sesame seeds, serve with grilled meat and have a meal with Southeast Asian flavors.

What kind of Southeast Asian flavors? Thai? Vietnamese? Filipino? A little bit of each, I suppose, with some Chinese and Japanese elements thrown in. The base of the dressing is Vietnamese but I added a few other things so I can’t call it a Vietnamese dressing.

But the salad itself is… Well, it really started as Japanese kani salad but we were out of Japanese mayo. So, I mixed a dressing with what I had, added a few other touches and voila!

Top the cucumber and mango salad with chili lime dressing with toasted sesame seeds, serve with grilled meat and have a meal with Southeast Asian flavors.

The preparation is pretty much the same as the procedure for making kani salad.

Cucumber and Mango Salad With Chili Lime Dressing: How to Cut the Carrot and Cucumber

I used a mandoline to thinly slice the carrot and cucumber then I stacked the thin slices and cut them into matchsticks (see also: how to julienne).

Cucumber and Mango Salad With Chili Lime Dressing: How to Cut the Carrot and Cucumber

I slashed a mango diagonally so that the strips were roughly the same length. The slashes, about a quarter inch apart, went all the way but without cutting through the skin.

Cucumber and Mango Salad With Chili Lime Dressing: How to Cut the Mango

I scooped out the slices shallowly to keep the slices thin.

Aside from the dressing, the main difference between kani salad and this cucumber and mango salad lies in when to add the dressing. Because of the lime juice in the dressing of this cucumber and mango salad, it is advisable to drizzle it in and toss everything together immediately before serving. Do not allow the tossed salad to sit for too long because the cucumber expels water faster once it gets in contact with the acidic lime juice. The strands shrink and the salad turns watery when allowed to sit for more than five minutes. Another option is to serve the dressing on the side.

Cucumber and Mango Salad With Chili Lime Dressing

Top the cucumber and mango salad with chili lime dressing with toasted sesame seeds, serve with grilled meat and have a meal with Southeast Asian flavors.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 2
Author: Connie Veneracion

Ingredients

For the dressing

  • 1 teaspoon patis (fish sauce)
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 bird's eye chili thinly sliced
  • 1 one-inch knob ginger grated
  • 1 clove garlic grated
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds divided
  • 1/4 teaspoon sesame seed oil

For the salad

  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 sweet ripe mango

Instructions

Make the dressing

  • Start by mixing the dressing to give it time for the flavors to develop. Mix all the ingredients together but using only half of the toasted sesame seeds. Set aside.

Prepare the salad

  • Thinly slice the cucumber and mango (peeling is optional) then cut into matchsticks.
  • Cut open the mango, avoiding the stone at the middle. Make deep slashes about a quarter inch apart without piercing the skin. Using a spoon, scoop out shallowly to release the thin strips.

Toss the salad

  • Place the cucumber, carrot and mango in a bowl. Using two forks (or the tips of your fingers), toss them lightly but thoroughly to distribute the colors evenly.
  • Drizzle in two tablespoons of dressing and toss. Taste. Add more dressing, as needed.
  • Sprinkle in the remaining toasted sesame seeds before serving the cucumber and mango salad with chili lime dressing.
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About Connie Veneracion

Hello and welcome! I'm a retired lawyer and columnist, wife for 29 years, mom of two, and a passionate cook. What is this blog about? Recipes for dishes we have cooked at home since 2003.

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