Chinese home cooking

Smashed Cucumber with Chili Oil and Mustard

Name: Smashed Cucumber with Chili Oil and Mustard
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: cucumber; 1 spoonful garlic; 2 spoonfuls light soy sauce; 1 spoonful sugar; a little less than 1/2 spoonful salt; 1 1/2 spoonfuls aged vinegar; 1 spoonful chili oil; a little mustard seasoning (芥末); hot oil

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Smashed cucumber is tossed with hot-oil garlic, aged vinegar, chili oil and a little mustard seasoning.

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Published 2026-10-12

Rough green cucumber chunks dotted with garlic and red chili dressing. — Smashed Cucumber with Chili Oil and Mustard

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Ingredients

Quantities are included where specified in the original recipe.

cucumber
1 spoonfulgarlic
2 spoonfulslight soy sauce
1 spoonfulsugar
a little less than 1/2 spoonfulsalt
1 1/2 spoonfulsaged vinegar
1 spoonfulchili oil
a littlemustard seasoning (芥末)
hot oil

Spoonfuls retain the Chinese recipe measures 勺/匙. Small and large spoonfuls retain 小勺 and 大勺; their volume is unspecified and is not converted to teaspoons or tablespoons.

Step-by-Step Instructions

01
Smash the cucumber and cut into chunks. Add garlic and pour hot oil over it.
02
Add light soy sauce, sugar, salt and aged vinegar.
03
Add chili oil and a little mustard seasoning, then toss thoroughly.

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Cooking Method

Cold Tossing

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