Simple Korean Cucumber Carrot Salad 💚
This was a little off-the-cuff today, here's what's inside:
3/4 cucumber (about two cups), sliced
1/2 carrot, peels
2 scallions, sliced at 60° angle
1 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tsp maple syrup
Scant 1/2 tsp gochugaru (Korean red chili pepper)
Two pinches sesame seeds
The typical cucumber in the US these days has a thick, waxy, unpalatable skin. English cucumber skins are fairly good, and the little bumpy cucumbers we grew up on that you can only seem to find in the middle of the summer at farmers markets are the BEST (I just remembered that Costco has an ok imitation of these).
#plantbased #oilfree #koreanfood