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Thai Cucumber Salad - easiest and best homemade Thai cucumber salad recipe that is better than your favorite Thai restaurants, guaranteed!

Thai Cucumber Salad - easiest and best homemade Thai cucumber salad recipe that is better than your favorite Thai restaurants, guaranteed | rasamalaysia.com

Healthy homemade Thai Cucumber Salad in a bowl.

I love Thai food, so much so that I go to Thailand every year whenever I am back in Asia.

There is just something about the perfect balance of flavors that have us hooked on Thai food, including small dishes such as this Thai cucumber salad that is often served with appetizers like Thai chicken sate, Thai fish cake and shrimp cake.

Thai Cucumber Salad as a side dish in a bowl.

I always gobble up the small serving of Thai cucumber salad served at restaurants and complain that I don’t have enough. I take matters into my own hands. I make the salad at home, and eat as much as I can, and no one is going to stop me.

The good thing about this recipe is that I don’t have to cook, it’s so easy as I just marinate the cucumber and make the to-die-for salad dressing.

Easy and delicious Thai Cucumber Salad in a bowl ready to serve.

I can also make Pad Thai, Tom Yum, and green curry to go with it. I am sure you want to go out and get all the ingredients and have a Thai feast now.

Click here to check out my Thai recipes, they are all absolutely delicious, I assure you!

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Thai Cucumber Salad Recipe

Thai Cucumber Salad - easiest and best homemade Thai cucumber salad recipe that is better than your favorite Thai restaurants, guaranteed.

Course Salad
Cuisine Thai
Keyword Thai Cucumber Salad
Prep Time
Mix Time 5 minutes
Servings 3
Calories 131 kcal
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Ingredients

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb cucumber cut into pieces
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 small red onion sliced
  • 2 tablespoons chopped roasted peanuts
  • 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro

Dressing:

  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 4 tablespoons Thai sweet chili sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Apple cider vinegar
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Instructions

  1. Add salt to the cucumber, mix well and set aside in the fridge for 10-15 minutes. In the meantime, make the Dressing, by combining all the ingredients in a small sauce pan. Turn on the heat and reduce the Dressing a bit so it's slightly thickened. Let cool.
  2. Drain the salt water from the cucumber completely. Toss the cucumber, onion, and mix with the Dressing. Top with the peanut and cilantro, serve immediately.

Recipe Notes

Thai cucumber salad is best served with Thai chicken sate, Thai fish cake or shrimp cake.

Nutrition Facts
Thai Cucumber Salad Recipe
Amount Per Serving (3 g)
Calories 131 Calories from Fat 29
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 3.2g 5%
Saturated Fat 0.5g 3%
Sodium 339mg 14%
Total Carbohydrates 24.4g 8%
Dietary Fiber 1.4g 6%
Sugars 19g
Protein 2.6g 5%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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  1. I always think cucumbers are not given enough credit. It’s such a refreshing fruit or is it vegetable? I love Thai food and I love salad. Now we have both! Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Absolutely love this salad!!! I made a large batch, since cucumbers are out right now, and have been eating it all week for lunch at work!!! It’s also delicious inside pita bread, as i had that today for my lunch!!!

    I recommend this to anyone who likes Thai food, or any food that has flavor!!

    Thank you for this and for all the amazing recipes!!!

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  4. Love, Love this recipe!!! I made a large batch to take to work for lunch to have this week!! The taste is incredible, and i find i am am craving it, and sneaking more in the afternoon!!! Also, great inside pita for a sandwich, as i tried that today!!

    The Thai flavor is so amazing….Great for anyone who loves Thai food, or basically who loves just flavorful food!

    Bee..you are amazing…keep these coming!!!

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  6. Whoa…!! This is basically 5 tablespoons of sugar (if you assume the sweet chilli sauce has about 1 tbls also). I’m not sugar phobic, but that seems pretty excessive to me. No wonder it tastes so good!

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  8. Just by looking at the dressing ingredients I realized that it would be way too sweet. I cut the sugar in half and added 2 tsp of rice vinegar in addition to the apple cider vinegar which brought it into more of a balance between sweet and sour. I would recommend starting with 1 TBSP of sugar to start – you can always add more later if you like it very sweet. Otherwise, a great Summer salad!

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  11. Have been preparing this for the past half hour and eating it now !! Simply delicious!
    Thank you ! You convinced me and I am your latest “follower”!

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  13. Best cucumber salad I’ve ever had! Prepared it exactly according to recipe— thought it would be too sweet but it wasn’t. Making it again ( for the third time this week! ) and not changing a thing. Salting the cucumber first, as the recipe says, is an important step. Drain the salt water ( don’t rinse it off ). Excellent recipe! Thanks!

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    • Hi Andy, thanks so much for your rave review. Yes, all my recipes taste very good if you just follow it exactly. All measurements are precise with perfect balance of flavors. :) Thanks!

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  15. Yummy, made it but left the cilantro out as I loathed taste and smell. I also cut the seeds out of the middle of the cucumber as it gives my mother heartburn. But it tasted the same and now a welcome and well loved recipe, many thanks

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  16. Great simple salad that is FULL of flavor. I completely deseeded my cucumber and sliced it into “moons”. I love how the cucumber stays crisp because you salt it first. The dressing is not too sweet, and balances well with the red onion.

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  17. We love this cucumber salad and make it all the time. Everyone loves it even people who don’t like cucumbers. Delicious!

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  18. This is so delicious. I have made it several times. I misplaced the recipe for awhile, but I’m so happy I located it again! I always make at least a double recipe. It’s so fresh tasting and cool. I LOVE Thai flavors! and think I may have to make my way through all your recipes The Honey Garlic Chicken is already a favorite I’ve made quite a few times.Thank you Bee !!

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  19. I have made this salad twice now. Both times I served it as a side with a Thai entree. First time we ate it with Spicy Thai Basil Chicken from Chef John that I found on Allrecipes. Tonight we will have it along with Bang Bang Shrimp from Damn Delicious. This salad is amazing and a delicious entree and puts it over the top as a complete meal. If you like Thai flavors, you will NOT be disappointed! Thank you for posting this delicious salad recipe.

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  20. Delicious salad with wonder flavors! Our family is peanut allergic so I substituted pepitas (small pumpkin seeds) for the peanuts to get the crunch and saltiness. Very easy to make with flavorful results! Thank you!!

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  21. I’ like to have Thai cucumber salad as my side dish when I make Trader Joe’s General Taos Chicken with jasmine rice, delicious dinner

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  22. Hi, is this page broken? Some of the images and links don’t seem to be loading properly, so I’m not able to access the recipe. Thanks!

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