Cucumber salad with walnuts, Asian dressing and purple garlic.

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Preparation

30 min

Cooking
Portions

4 pax

Difficulty

Easy

Ingredients
  • 2 heads of Big Garlic Purple Garlic (or 20 cloves of Cook' In Big Purple Garlic)
  • 16 Half shelled walnuts in honey
  • A pinch of poppy seeds
  • 4 peeled cucumbers
  • Crispy fried cucumber
  • 200 ml of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 10 ml of Rice Vinegar, Mirin
  • 15 ml of Teriyaki Sauce
  • 15 ml of thick soy sauce
  • 5 ml of Kimchi Sauce
  • Nice room
Step by step
  1. We peel the 2 heads of purple garlic.

  2. We place them in a small saucepan over the heat, with about two fingers' worth of olive oil, enough to cover the cloves. We leave them over very low heat until they are tender, but barely browned.

  3. Remove from heat, let cool, and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for use when needed.

  4. Meanwhile, peel the cucumbers and cut them into roughly 2 cm cubes. Then, place them in a bowl.

  5. In that same bowl, add the soy sauce, rice vinegar, Teriyaki sauce and Kimchi sauce, and stir everything together well, then let it marinate for about 20 minutes.

  6. FINISHED DISH:

    In a deep plate, with capacity to hold liquid, we place the well-drained cucumber in the center, giving volume upwards.

  7. We place 5 cloves of confit garlic per plate, and add a little fried cucumber on top.

  8. Next, we also add a pinch of poppy seeds, and place 3 peeled walnut halves in honey.

  9. Finally, we lightly drizzle our dish with a teaspoon of the marinade prepared in step 5, and season everything with a little fine salt on the surface (but very little salt, as the sauces can be a little salty).

The advice of

  • The confit garlic cloves will keep for 5 days stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
  • It is a salad that, if left to marinate well for 20 to 30 minutes, will acquire a very special and pleasant flavor.
  • To prepare the shelled walnuts in honey: We buy shelled walnuts or shell them ourselves, choosing the tenderest ones possible. We put them in a jar filled with honey and leave them there for two or three days before using them, so they develop the flavor and texture we need.
  • It's a salad that we can prepare in the morning and enjoy at night, giving us more time for ourselves.

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