Chinese name: 蒜泥黄瓜 (suàn ní huáng guā)
Style: Sichuan(Szechuan) Cuisine Characteristics: Cucumber with mashed garlic tastes salty, sour, fresh and crispy, having a peasant garlic flavor. The most popular cucumber dish in China, cucumber with mashed garlic, is simple to cook, but tasty to eat. Cucumber is cold by nature, and it can clear away heat, moisturize pathogenic dryness to loosen the bowel and reduce body fat. It’s said that cucumber juice is very good for cleanness, skin protection and wrinkle smoothing. In addition to garlic's killing germs, it is really a healthy dish. |  |
Ingredients: 3 cucumbers
3-6 gloves of garlic Preparation: 1. Peel the cucumbers to remove the pesticide residues on the skin. Wash them in water. Smack the cucumber to loosen it. Cut it into chunks and put then into a soup bowl. Set aside. 2. Remove the garlic skins. Wash the cloves in water. Chop them up and put them into a small dish. |  |
Seasonings: soy sauce
salt white sugar white vinegar sesame oil chicken essence (chicken stock/bouillon) or monosodium glutamate red chili shreds Note: the amount of the seasonings listed above can be appropriately used according to one's personal taste. |  |
Methods:
 Step 1: Pour the cucumber chunks into a soup bowl. Add in mashed garlic, red chili shreds, chicken essence, salt, white sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil and white vinegar. |
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| Step 2: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add some cooking oil heat to about 90℃(194℉). Spoon the oil out and pour into the soup bowl with cucumber and seasonings. |
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| Step 3: Stir it well with chopsticks or a spatula until all the materials are mixed up. Pour into a prepared porcelain plate finally. |
 source:http://www.travelchinaguide.com/tour/food/chinese-cooking/mashed-garlic-cucumber.htm |
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