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Hot cucumber salad

Mike Van de Elzen

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Ingredients

1 cup Bulghur wheat, uncooked
2 Telegraph cucumbers
2 heads Bok choy, finely chopped
2 cups Spring onions, finely sliced
6 Baby radishes, skin on
2 Tbsp Chia seeds
2 packets Pea sprouts
2 Tbsp Oil
1 pinch Salt

Citrus-mint dressing

1 cup Mint leaves
1 pinch Salt
1 Orange, juice and zest
4 Tbsp Tamari soy sauce
2 Tbsp Honey
3 Tbsp Avocado oil
1 pinch White pepper, to taste

Directions

  1. Place bulghur wheat in a large bowl, pour over enough boiling water to cover and leave to soak for 10 minutes. Drain well and cool in fridge.
  2. Peel cucumber, halve lengthways and scrape out seeds. Halve lengthways again and chop into 1cm pieces.
  3. Using a peeler or mandoline, slice the radishes lengthways.
  4. Heat ½ tbsp oil in a large frying pan, add sliced radish and a pinch of salt and sauté for 20-30 seconds. Remove from pan. Repeat process with cucumber pieces and remove.
  5. Add bok choi and 1 tbsp water to frying pan and sauté quickly.
  6. Combine all salad components in a large serving bowl and dress with citrus-mint dressing.

For the citrus-mint dressing

  1. Pound salt and mint in a mortar and pestle. Add orange zest and juice and continue pounding mixture to a paste.
  2. Add tamari, honey, avocado oil and white pepper and stir well.

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Dedicated to food and wellbeing, Be Well is The New Zealand Herald's weekly Monday magazine that celebrates your relationship with food. Be Well offers recipes and kitchen tips contributed by some of New Zealand's most talented cooks and chefs, reviews and insider knowledge on where to eat in New Zealand and abroad, gardening and fresh food tips as well as new trends to help you live well.
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