Cucumber salad
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Cucumber salad is a salad dish with cucumber as its main ingredient.
Varieties
[edit]The basic form is thin slices of cucumber with a vinaigrette dressing.[1] The salad may include condiments from Chinese cuisine such as soy sauce and sesame oil,[2] or elements from Thai cuisine such as peanuts, prawns and chili peppers.[3] Australian chef Adam Liaw included "Korean hot chilli flakes" in his recipe for a "simple Korean version".[4] A German cuisine version, a "gurkensalat", may include chives, dill, and sour cream.[5]
In culture
[edit]- In A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, a narrative of his 1773 journey though Scotland, Samuel Johnson remarked A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.[1]
- According to some accounts of the history of the telephone, some of the first intelligible words heard over the Reis telephone were Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tara Parker-Pope (13 August 2010). "Cool Summer Cucumber Dishes". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ Nadiya Hussain. "Thai cucumber salad". BBC Food. BBC Online. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ Boetz, Martin (9 May 2021). "German cucumber salad (gurkensalat)". SBS Food. SBS Television. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
- ^ "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat! Eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte der Telekommunikation in der DHM-Bibliothek". German Historical Museum (in German). Retrieved 11 February 2025.
