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Cucumber Salad with Onion, Jalapeño & Peanuts
Crisp cucumber salad with onion, jalapeño, cilantro, and peanuts—sweet, tangy, and spicy with a bright Asian-inspired rice vinegar dressing.
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup rice vinegar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 large cucumber, trimmed and thinly sliced
- 1 medium red onion, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 jalapeño pepper, trimmed, seeded, and thinly sliced
- Stingy fistful of fresh cilantro leaves
- 3 tablespoons chopped peanuts, roasted or raw
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Instructions:
- In a small nonreactive saucepan, combine the vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring, until the sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and let it cool completely.
- Put the cucumber, onion, and jalapeño in a festive bowl. Pour the cooled vinegar over the vegetables and toss until everything is coated evenly. If necessary, use your clean fingers to separate all the different slices of the vegetables. Let the salad sit at room temperature for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Just before serving, stir the cilantro into the salad and sprinkle with the chopped peanuts.
Cook’s Tips and Tricks: To take advantage of the jalapeño flavor without the heat, cut the stem end off and slice it into 4 pieces lengthwise. Using a small knife, cut out all the white ribs and seeds. Slice the green part into very thin strips, then cross-cut them into a mince. If the onion seems strong, put the slices into a colander and run super-cold water over them for 10 seconds. For a crafty touch, use a vegetable peeler to make stripes on the cucumber before slicing; it gives the coins a fun, strippedy look.
More about Cucumber Salad with Onion, Jalapeño & Peanuts
This lively cucumber salad shows its Asian heritage with its rice vinegar, hot pepper, cilantro, and peanuts. It’s easy to make and a great way to use those delicious summer cucumbers when they’re at their peak.
Posted:
September 3, 2019
Updated:
November 10, 2025
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