quick pickled cucumber-carrot relish.
A spicy, sweet and sour cucumber salad to serve with all your grilled meats or just to munch on.
It takes less than 15 minutes to put together this bowl of cucumber-carrot relish with extra green chillies and red chilli flecks for those of you who love a punch of heat to their pickled vegetables.
How you can use the tangy, quick pickled cucumber-carrot relish in your meals.
- Serve with your regular bowl of rice and curry. yes, it even tastes good with rice.
- Top off your grilling meats with a few spoons of the tangy cucumber and carrots.
- You can serve it as a cold cucumber salad to munch with grilled sandwiches and burgers.
- Spice on spice, despite the heat in pickled cucumber-carrot relish, this dish goes well with any type of Asian spicy dish.
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Utensils and appliances needed.
Chopping board and knife
A large bowl to mix in the ingredients.
A small bowl
Workflow to make quick pickled cucumbers and carrot relish.
Slice the vegetables.
Make the simple brine.
Combine both brine and vegetables. leave it to pickle.
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quick pickled cucumber carrot relish.
Please make sure to read the recipe instructions carefully to avoid mistakes.
Ingredients
Ingredients mentioned below use standard measuring cups and spoons.
4 Chinese or English cucumber sliced thin
2 medium-sized carrots, skin peeled and cut thin
2 green chillies chopped fine
1 medium-sized onion sliced fine
3 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 cup rice or white vinegar
1 tablespoon of red chilli flakes
Salt to season
Method
Wash the cucumber and cut them into thin rounds. set aside.
Wash, peel and cut the carrots into thin rounds.
Chop the onions and green chillies. set aside.
In a smaller bowl mix sugar, vinegar, red chilli flecks and season with salt.
Taste the vinaigrette and make sure you have the sweet and spicy flavors balanced.
Add all the chopped vegetables into a larger bowl and pour the sweet and spicy vinaigrette into it.
Combine well, season with salt if necessary.
Let it rest for 10 minutes and serve.
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quick pickled cucumber-carrot relish.
A spicy, sweet and sour cucumber salad to serve with all your grilled meats or just to munch on.
Ingredients
- Ingredients mentioned below use standard measuring cups and spoons.
- 4 Chinese or English cucumber sliced thin
- 2 medium-sized carrots, skin peeled and cut thin
- 2 green chillies chopped fine
- 1 medium-sized onion sliced fine
- 3 tablespoons of sugar
- 1/4 cup rice or white vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of red chilli flakes
- Salt to season
Instructions
Wash the cucumber and cut them into thin rounds. set aside.
Wash, peel and cut the carrots into thin rounds.
Chop the onions and green chillies. set aside.
In a smaller bowl mix sugar, vinegar, red chilli flecks and season with salt.
Taste the vinaigrette and make sure you have the sweet and spicy flavors balanced.
Add all the chopped vegetables into a larger bowl and pour the sweet and spicy vinaigrette into it.
Combine well, season with salt if necessary.
Let it rest for 10 minutes and serve.
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Melissa
Tuesday 23rd of July 2019
I've tried to make quick pickles a couple times and they have never come out quite right. These look great, I will definitely be trying them your way!