Cucumber salad with pickled red onions
Serves 8
Easy
Prep:
Cook:
plus steeping
This light and crunchy salad makes a cooling accompaniment to spicy dishes
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- 25g sugar
- 50ml Japanese vinegar
- 1 large red onionfinely sliced into rings
- 1 large cucumberhalved, deseeded then diced
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal28
- fat0glow
- saturates0g
- carbs6g
- sugars5g
- fibre1g
- protein1g
- salt0.1g
Method
step 1
Pour 100ml water into a saucepan. Add the sugar and vinegar and bring to the boil. Put the onion into a bowl, then pour over the hot liquid and leave for 5 mins. Add the cucumber and set aside to steep and cool.