Sweet and Sour Cucumber

Chinese name: 糖醋黄瓜 (tang cù huáng guā) 
Characteristics: Sweet and sour cucumber is green in color, tasting fresh, sweet, sour and crispy. 

One of the home-style dishes in northeastern and southeastern China, sweet and sour cucumber is mainly made of cucumber which contains a great amount of water, carotene as well as many beneficial minerals such as thiamine (vitamin B1) and riboflavin(or vitamin B2), but with low protein and sugar.
Sweet Sour Cucumber

Ingredients: 3 cucumbers 

Preparation: Peel the cucumbers to remove the pesticide residues on the skin. Wash them in water. Cut them into diamond-shaped chunks on the chopping board. Finally, put the chunks into a soup plate.
Ingredient of Sweet Sour Cucumber

Seasonings: 
salt 
soy sauce 
white vinegar 
sesame oil 
sweet bean sauce (white sugar)
mashed garlic
Note: the amount of the seasonings listed above can be appropriately used according to one's personal taste.
Sweet Sour Cucumber Seasonings

Methods:
  Step 1: Sprinkle some salt in the cucumber chunks and leave for 2 minutes for the juice to run out. Strain off the liquid with a colander.
Salting Sweet Sour Cucumber
 
  Step 2: Add the mashed garlic, (sweet bean sauce or white sugar), sesame oil, white vinegar and soy sauce. Stir it well with chopsticks until mixed. Pour it into a porcelain plate or just leave it in the soup plate.
Seasoning Sweet Sour Cucumber
 
A plate of green, cool and tasty sweet and sour cucumber prepared in this way, is really helpful in reducing weight.
Sweet Sour Cucumber Completed

source:http://www.travelchinaguide.com/tour/food/chinese-cooking/sweet-sour-cucumber.htm

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