| Chinese name: 糖醋黄瓜 (tang cù huáng guā)
Characteristics: Sweet and sour cucumber is green in color, tasting fresh, sweet, sour and crispy.
One of the home-style dishes in northeastern and southeastern China, sweet and sour cucumber is mainly made of cucumber which contains a great amount of water, carotene as well as many beneficial minerals such as thiamine (vitamin B1) and riboflavin(or vitamin B2), but with low protein and sugar. |  |
| Ingredients:
3 cucumbers
Preparation: Peel the cucumbers to remove the pesticide residues on the skin. Wash them in water. Cut them into diamond-shaped chunks on the chopping board. Finally, put the chunks into a soup plate. |  |
| Seasonings:
salt
soy sauce
white vinegar
sesame oil
sweet bean sauce (white sugar)
mashed garlic
Note: the amount of the seasonings listed above can be appropriately used according to one's personal taste. |  |
Methods: |  Step 1: Sprinkle some salt in the cucumber chunks and leave for 2 minutes for the juice to run out. Strain off the liquid with a colander. |
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| Step 2: Add the mashed garlic, (sweet bean sauce or white sugar), sesame oil, white vinegar and soy sauce. Stir it well with chopsticks until mixed. Pour it into a porcelain plate or just leave it in the soup plate. |
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| A plate of green, cool and tasty sweet and sour cucumber prepared in this way, is really helpful in reducing weight. |
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Tips: Please choose fresh and tender cucumbers to ensure the dish is really tasty. If you don't like Sweet and Sour Cucumber,
Cucumber with Mashed Garlic is another choise.
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