Cucumber salad

Cucumber salad with sesame seeds

Cucumber salad is a salad dish with cucumber as its main ingredient.

Varieties

The basic form is thin slices of cucumber with a vinaigrette dressing. ^[1] The salad may include condiments from Chinese cuisine such as soy sauce and sesame oil, ^[2] or elements from Thai cuisine such as peanuts, prawns and chili peppers. ^[3] Australian chef Adam Liaw included "Korean hot chilli flakes" in his recipe for a "simple Korean version". ^[4] A German cuisine version, a "gurkensalat", may include chives, dill, and sour cream. ^[5]

In culture

• In A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, a narrative of his 1773 journey though Scotland, Samuel Johnson remarked A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. ^[1]
• According to some accounts of the history of the telephone, some of the first intelligible words heard over the Reis telephone were Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat. ^[6]

References

1. Tara Parker-Pope (13 August 2010). "Cool Summer Cucumber Dishes". The New York Times . Retrieved 9 February 2025.
2. Harris, Jenn (11 August 2024). "Making the viral Din Tai Fung-inspired cucumber salad (no deli cup necessary)". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 9 February 2025.
3. Nadiya Hussain. "Thai cucumber salad". BBC Food . BBC Online . Retrieved 9 February 2025.
4. Adam Liaw (30 September 2024). "It's not TikTok's viral cucumber salad, it's Adam Liaw's and it's sensational". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 9 February 2025.
5. Boetz, Martin (9 May 2021). "German cucumber salad (gurkensalat)". SBS Food . SBS Television . Retrieved 11 February 2025.
6. "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat! Eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte der Telekommunikation in der DHM-Bibliothek". German Historical Museum (in German). Retrieved 11 February 2025.