Cucumber-Ginger Salad

Name: Cucumber-Ginger Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 (1-inch) piece, ginger, peeled; 1 (12- to 16-ounce), English cucumber, halved lengthwise and sliced thin crosswise; 1/4 cup, cider vinegar; 3 tablespoons, packed brown sugar; 3 tablespoons, soy sauce; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 1 tablespoon, toasted sesame oil; 2 teaspoons, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, red pepper flakes

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2021

This simple, refreshing salad shows off the best of both ingredients.

SERVES4

TIME15 minutes, plus 1 hour sitting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In the test kitchen, we know that once cucumbers are mixed with a salty dressing, they give up a bit of liquid that dilutes the dressing. To make this a simple toss-together affair, we made the dressing potent enough that a little dilution ...

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