Sesame Lemon Cucumber Salad

Name: Sesame Lemon Cucumber Salad
Yield: Serves 4 as a side dish
Ingredients: 1/4 cup, rice vinegar; 1 tablespoon, lemon juice from 1 small lemon; 2 tablespoons, toasted sesame oil; 2 teaspoons, granulated sugar; 1/8 teaspoon, red pepper flakes, plus more to taste; 1 tablespoon, sesame seeds, toasted in a pan over medium heat until fragrant and golden, 4 to 5 minutes; 3 , medium cucumbers, sliced, salted, and drained (see directions)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1997, America's Test Kitchen TV

No matter how you dress them, a preliminary salting and draining of sliced cucumbers maximizes their crunchy texture.

SERVES4 as a side dish

TIME20 minutes, plus 1 hour draining

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a cucumber salad recipe with good crunch, we found that weighting salted cucumbers forced more water from them than salting alone. After many tests, we determined that one to three hours worked best for our cucumber salad recipe: Even a...

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