1 people · Easy · 10 min · ₭ Cheap

This Lao-style Cucumber Salad is a very simple dish to make, a delicious sweet-sour-spicy salad.

Ingredients

• 1 cucumber, shredded
• 4 fresh chili, more or less
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 slices of limes
• 4 cherry tomatoes
• 1 hard boiled egg
• 1 teaspoon of shrimp paste (kapi)
• ½ tablespoon of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon of MSG, optional

Preparation

Step 1. Use a mortar and pestle to bruise roughly chili, garlic, sugar, MSG, and shrimp paste.

Step 2. Slice tomatoes, and squeeze the lime juice, add fish sauce and cucumber, and bash again. Add seasoning to your taste with more fish sauce or lime juice. Ready to serve. Zap!