Danish Cucumber Salad (Agurksalat)
Recipe: #26430
July 06, 2017
Categories: Salads, Vegetable Salad, Cucumber, German, Scandinavian, 5 Ingredients Or Less, Picnic, Fat Free Gluten-Free, Kosher, Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegan, Vegetarian, more
"This is so similar to the northern German cuisine of my mom's, but this is from a website of Danish traditional foods."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (142.2 g)
- Calories 80.6
- Total Fat - 0.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 0 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 3.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 19.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.5 g
- Sugars - 18 g
- Protein - 0.6 g
- Calcium - 16.3 mg
- Iron - 0.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cut off ends of cucumber, then thinly slice by hand or with a mandolin.
Step 2
Place in bowl, salt generously, put a plate on top of cakes, weigh down with vinegar bottle or some heavy object.
Step 3
After 10-15 minutes, remove weight and plate, and squeeze the slices by hand.
Step 4
Drain off liquid and discard.
Step 5
Add equal amounts of sugar, water and vinegar.
Step 6
Stir to dissolve sugar.
Step 7
Add pepper to taste and salt if needed.
Step 8
Keep in refrigerator until serving. Garnish with sliced green onion.
Tips
- Mandolin, for making uniform thin slices