We recently celebrated Mother’s Day in England and for my mother I cooked a Chinese inspired meal with lots of different dishes. Some I’ve cooked before, like Stir Fried Beef with Ginger. Alongside the meat and fish dishes, I made a fresh and crunchy salad, inspired by one in my Gok Wan Cooks book. Sadly, there were very few leftovers the next day, and none at all of the salad!
Ingredients to serve 4-6
- 1 cucumber, partly peeled
- ½ fresh chilli, finely sliced
- 3 spring onions, finely sliced
- A few handfuls of bean sprouts
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon caster sugar
- A pinch of salt
Slice off the ends of the cucumber then slice it in half lengthways. Scoop out the seeds with a teaspoon and then cut the cucumber into chunks about .5cm wide.
Mix the cucumber with the chilli, beansprouts and spring onions. Mix the rest of the ingredients together to make the dressing and pour over the salad a couple of minutes before serving.
Chica Andaluza 
Good morning!
Was planning Asian style food this weekend so will be adding a salad to the menu. Thanks x
I never really thought of salad as an Asian thing (especially not Chinese) but this really worked!
Happy mommy’s day to your mommy and how lovely to be able to share the day with her and with a magnificent meal to boot.
Love the salad!
Have a beautiful weekend Tanya.
🙂 Mandy xo
PS. Hope you were able to see the eclipse.
It was too cloudy to see the eclipse here – it just went sort of twilighty and cold L Have a great weekend too!
Ha ha – I hate it when there are no leftovers 😉
Me too – although there were Singapore Noodles left over and I had them for breakfast the next day which Big Man found a bit traumatic as he tucked into coffee and magdalenas 😉
I like his style 🙂
Yum!!!
🙂
There’s a definite flavour of Spring in there, Tanya. Might have to give it a whirl 🙂
And then the weather goes all wintery on us again this afternoon 😦
Oh, no! 😦 I tried to share you on PInterest but it was too hard so I gave up and used FB. I have a PInterest account but not a very active one.
Haven’t mastered Pinterest yet and am only just getting to grips with FB so thank you!
Gorgeous salad Ms Chica. Is it really warm enough over there for salad?! Happy mothers day to your wonderful mum. Without her, you wouldn’t be “you” and the world wouldn’t be as bright 🙂
Nope, not really warm enough for salad but I put lots of hot chilli and ginger into everything so they were all glad of a refreshing salad 😉 Cunning cooking!
Clever girl!
😉
And thank you for your lovely words J
You are welcome Ms Chica, they are well deserved 🙂
J
I will try to remember this when it’s warm enough for salad!
Or do like me and pump up the central heating!
Lovely, lovely salad and have to check our respective ingredients! Don’t think the season of the year has much to do with the recipe!! SE Asia actually has a lot of salad recipes [whether it is always safe to eat them at street stalls is another matter 🙂 !] . . . besides this one methinks I love the green papaya one the most and make it most weeks . . .
Ooh – green papaya…yum!
This sounds like such a refreshing salad Tanya 🙂
I think it went down well!
most excellent!
That looks so good!!! I’ve posted on a cucumber salad, but it doesn’t have the bean sprouts included. There’s a little sugar and Tabasco, and it’s fabulous as well! You are a very nice daughter!
I’m off to check out your recipe – cucumber is so under rated, but I love it!
This sounds fabulous Tanya! I have everything but the bean sprouts on hand, so will make this in the next day or two.
I think with this lovely dressing you could substitute anything you fancy for the beansprouts!
emmm,…good recipe,…
i think very delicious if add chili
Oh this sounds gooooood! (and , no water required ;-)) Always very happy to have a good salad idea for those long Texas summers. Mmmmmmm!
A beautiful set of flavors with soy and rice vinegar…they manage to keep the vegetables looking yum and crisp to the bite:) Amazing salad – so simple too!
It was amazing how beautiful it tasted, considering the simplicity of the ingredients!
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Nice and refreshing
I am as a person really liked this recipe asia .
Mistress have you ever been to Indonesia?, in Indonesia there is also a salad in peanut sauce, sprinkle the name gado gado,karedok and do you want to taste it ?
I have been to beautiful Bali and indeed tasted gado gado which I enjoyed very much!
Hmm.. Yummy.. its healthy foods for men.. 😀
If in Indonesia called oseng2 bean sprouts. the menu is almost the same. I guess only in Indonesia alone menu like that, it turns out in the UK as well there ya?
This would be lovely with beansprouts!
can you come to indonesia? you can teach all the housewife 🙂
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the cucumber.. ahaha i love it