Asian Pickled Cucumber Braai Salad

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Ingredients

• 1 large English cucumber or 2 Japanese cucumbers
• ½ tablespoon salt
• ½ tablespoon sugar , or more
• 2 teaspoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 1 teaspoon white sesame seeds

Directions

1. Thinly slice the cucumber. You can do it either by hand or using a food processor. Rub the slices with salt and drain for 5 minutes in a colander.
2. Rinse under cold running water and squeeze them tightly to remove water. Set aside.
3. In a small bowl, mix the sugar, soy sauce, and rice vinegar until the sugar dissolves.
4. Add the dressing to the cucumber slices, sprinkle with sesame seeds and mix well.
5. Basically, it’s a thinly sliced cucumber marinated in a dressing made of rice vinegar, soy sauce, salt, sugar and sprinkled with sesame seeds. It’s also important to squeeze all the water from cucumbers before mixing them with the dressing!