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Cucumber salad/indonesian acar timun

Cucumber is one of my favorite vegetable,especially for a salad, I like to use seedless cucumber better too,because is better for a salad.




This salad is very simple and easy to make,normally in my country they served as a side dishes for a satay such a chicken satay,beef or lamb satay with Indonesians traditional peanut sauce.

Ingredients;
1 seedless cucumber
2 carrot
1 big size shallot
for the sauce :
1 lemon juice  or ( 1 tbs white vinegar )
1 tbs sesame oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
add sliced chili ( optional )
preparations :
cut cucumber and carrot  /you can cut cube or julienne,and sliced shallot really thin and mix it in the salad bowl
mix lemon juice/white  vinegar,sesame oil,salt and sugar,whisk it and pour into salad bowl and stir very well.
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  1. Kelly | Eat Yourself SkinnyJune 30, 2011 at 4:32 PM

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  2. RiceandcoconutJune 30, 2011 at 7:50 PM

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