This recipe is a 20 out of 10!! The flavor profile of the sauce with the freshness of the cucumber is 😳 this will be a go to! Thank you!!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy you tried it and loved it!

@andreabenkert1835

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree!❤Just made it and, oh boy, it's really some flavor-explosion❤❤❤

I don't think it's recognized just how talented RPL is. Yes, she makes tasty recipes, but I don't think people appreciate enough how technically sound and innovative her recipes are. For example, in this video she walks you through why she chose specific varieties of cucumbers for the salad, and then why she chose to smash them. Throughout her entire catalog, you can tell what an artisan she is when it comes to vegan food. Not only is she extremely well-educated on the history and science behind food (both vegan and non-vegan) but she has the creativity, intelligence, vision and boldness to know when and where to try new things to create a recipe that is not only interesting but delicious. Just look at her decision to add vegan milk to her vegan egg recipe or how she created her own meat for her Crunchwrap Supreme. Such a talent! We really are lucky to have her sharing her gift with us!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

This is such a thoughtful and sweet comment. Thank you for making my day, Taylor!

@taylorbush8713

2 жыл бұрын

@@RainbowPlantLife You deserve it! All your hard work shines through!

@katiegriffin7597

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention-Nisha is such a great teacher and entertaining as well! It’s a killer combo that makes her my favorite food KZreadr by far. Oh-and her recipes range from easy to complex, depending on where the day would take you, and even the complex ones are relatively achievable, just more complex in flavor and perhaps more expensive and time consuming. Just a brilliant channel over all.

@Kelseyveg

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more! Probably my absolute fave plant based recipe creator because I love the why behind every ingredient and technique too! I always look forward to her videos!!

"if you have any anger or rage... of course you do. It's 2022." I actually laughed out loud. Love your channel!

@Alina_Schmidt

2 жыл бұрын

Still the advice applies: Don‘t be too hungry while cooking ;)

As a korean vegan who loves indian food , i am blessed to have found this channel and seeing you making oimuchim which you pronounced perfectly makes me feel even happier:)

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

🥹 I’m honored! Thank you for sharing that with me!

As an East Asian myself this video warms my heart because I love the huge variety of different veggies and sauces that I grew up with. Makes my transitioning into eating more plant-based all the easier!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

🥰 that’s so sweet to hear! Where are you and your family from?

@rickochetz

2 жыл бұрын

We’re from Southern China! Lots of great Cantonese food but that means that I have baby mouth since Cantonese cuisine is usually not very spicy lol

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickochetz 😂 that makes me smile and laugh. I mentioned this in my Gobi Manchurian video, but Indo-Chinese cuisine came about hundreds of years ago when Cantonese immigrants moved to India and opened Cantonese restaurants, but started to adapt their recipes to meet the local Indian palate, which liked spicier foods and fried foods 😆

Cucumbers don't have to be boring and basic, and you are proving it! 😊 Creativity always brings great results!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Cucumbers can be such a great base :)

“If you have any anger or rage, of course you do because it’s 2022…” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 btw, you have THE BEST happy dances ever 😁👍🌻🌻🌻

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

🥰 glad you enjoy my happy dances! A nice little moment of joy after processing my rage 😂

I love that you explain why you do certain things. It has made me a better cook!

@id10t98

2 жыл бұрын

My ex-wife and family laughed because I scrape carrots with a butcher knife before cutting them, rather than peel them with a peeler. To me, it awakens their flavor, kind of like crushing dry herbs before putting them in soups, etc.

@badadafications

2 жыл бұрын

@@id10t98 I scrape instead of peel too! You lose a lot less when you do that and good, fresh carrots really don't need peeling.

I felt that “of course you do, it’s 2022”! I’ve got some cucumber I need to use and the bottom of a gochujang tub to clear out. Thank you Nisha!

the sauce is sooooooo good and versatile in korean cuisine!! i like to add this sauce on top of soba noodles, add some veggies (such as lettuce, bean sprouts, carrots, and scallions), and make a nice bibimguksu dish!! so refreshing and perfect for the summer :)

Aside from your clear-cut instructions and wonderful selections of dishes you are just so adorable. Thank you!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

☺️ consider me flattered! Thank you!

@charlesberger6618

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! P.S. Despite being a relatively small city, Syracuse, NY has a remarkably abundant supply of Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, and "European" grocery stores and restaurants. Yes, the climate in the winter months 🥶 isn't much of a selling point in tourist guides but the cost of living and the quality of life are exceptional.

It's 2022 . 🤣 Stress relief vital.💚

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Lol right?

Oooo I can’t wait to make this! For the last year I’ve been making my meals more veggie central, and I’ve got to the point now where I can go for a whole week not using meat in anything without even thinking about it. Having flavorful recipes on hand has been crucial in making it happen. Thank you! 🙏

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

I love to hear this! So happy you’ve been eating more veggie heavy meals and as a result, craving less meat.

As a Korean, thank you for showcasing our cuisine!!

I started shopping at our local Korean market after you recommended a few things in one of your past videos, and it has been amazing to try new things! Hubby and I can't wait to try this salad.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so great to hear! It’s also expanded my culinary world!

@id10t98

2 жыл бұрын

It opens your eyes to how other cultures eat and how deliciously nutritious it all is, too.

Anger? rage? Of course I do it's 2022.

Cucumbers are in season in our greenhouse…. there are sooo many!! One thing I do to use them up is make “Cuc Cubes”. I purée them in the food processor and then pour the purée into ice cube trays and freeze them. I use the Cuc Cubes in smoothies all year round. For sure I’ll be making this Spicy Cucumber Salad!! We’ll just have to have a few less Cuc Cubes in our freezer🤣. I can’t wait to make this, thanks for sharing the recipe Nisha. 🌎💦Ⓜary🇨🇦

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

That is so clever! I’m glad you’re excited to try this out, Mary!

You always expand my cooking in fun ways so THANK YOU!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

🥰 That’s so nice to hear!

Ty this looks so good!

I tried this salad and it was A BIG HIT in my family. LITERALLY EVERYONE LOVED IT 💖💖

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

So thrilled to hear it as a hit!

Amazing! The flavours in this salad indeed looks like a big dill

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Okay, this is a new favorite emoji!

Love the pumped up flavors in your recipes! And your witty humor is adorable. 💕😊

Can't wait to try this!!!

Definitely trying this. You’re my favorite KZreadr! Love your recipes!

Love your flavor combinations: Always inspiring, always creative and always delicious!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rob! I’m so honored to hear that!

Tried this tonight and it was sooooooooo yummyyyyyy! 🥰Thank you for sharing this recipe!

Hi Nisha, I just made this and it’s delishhhh! Thank you for sharing this amazing recipe 🤤😋

Looks incredible!

I absolutely love cucumbers. I’m always looking for a new way to eat them. Thanks for the recipe. You always come up with the best videos

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

🥰 I’m flattered you think so!

@Alina_Schmidt

2 жыл бұрын

Any tips? Just got way too many cucumbers and was looking for different ways to eat them.

Love the info about the different types of cucumbers! I made a cucumber salad last summer with pole cucumbers (the only kind I could find) and I was disappointed in it. I’m excited to try your recipe with Korean or Persian cucumbers!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, same here. They’re fine if they’re just part of a bigger salad but they’re not great as the star of a salad. Hope you’ll enjoy this salad! The Persian ones are so fun and cute and easy to smash :)

This was amazing! We made this and your lentil curry (which is a regular in our house) last night. It was so good! We had lots of left overs for lunches too. We were able to buy all the ingredients we didn't already have at home (cucumbers, goshugaru, goshujang, scallions, shallots) for less than $10. So it was pretty affordable too and I have a lot of those ingredients for next time. We are going to look up more recipes to use the goshujang as well.

Loved the recipe. Yummy

This is amazing! Looking forward to making this ASAP, probably tomorrow. Yum. Thank you.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Love to hear you’ll be making it so soon! ☺️

this looks sooooo good

This looks so tasty! I can’t wait to try it!!!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you’ll love it as much as we do :)

So glad you’re back

Looks very refreshing!

This looks great, can't wait to try it! As others have said, love the way you explain things because I'm always questioning things and whenever I watch your videos, you always are so helpful and a great teacher. Plus, you are hilarious:-) I always find myself laughing at your silliness. Would it be weird to add shredded carrots???

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your feedback Laurie! I’m so glad that you find them informative and helpful! Shredded carrots would be great to here.

very good salad,thank you

This looks so good

Yum that looks amazing thankyou so much love your food xxx

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Karen! I’m so happy you do!

so delicious!!

i love what you do. please never stop!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

☺️ that’s very nice to hear! Thanks Paul!

I now buy the large volumes of Chili paste and spice to make this dressing. I love it soo much I put it on salads as my go to dressing. It is great on veggies too. Thank you for this video and great instructions. You guys make great videos.

Looking forward to using this recipe. Thanks

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

I love to hear that! Enjoy!

I was salivating as I watched the salad being made, specially during the dressing part. 🤤

So delicious 😋 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a great day everyone 🌻

Looks delicious !

Thank you for your informative videos! I love the tips about smashing the cucumbers- and which cucumbers will work better. I'm often put off trying a new recipe when I can't find the ingredient called for, but I don't know enough about the varieties to make an informed decision to choose an alternative. Also, loved your comment about having rage because it's 2022. So true! Thanks for making me laugh and providing great recipes.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

☺️ thanks for your thoughtful comment, Laurie! I’m so glad you enjoy my videos and find them informative! And hopefully the smashing will help release a little bit of that rage.

@lfellezs13

2 жыл бұрын

@@RainbowPlantLife Maybe I'll try a mallet--a la Wiley Coyote! LOL

“Of course you have rage; it’s 2022.” Brilliant! Can’t wait to make this.

I’m so excited to try this. My favourite way to eat cucumbers is with lots and lots of fresh Italian parsley, a small shallot, juice and zest of a lemon and some salt and pepper. It’s delicious and very refreshing. Xxx

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

That does so sound so refreshing! Hope you’ll enjoy this version :)

Definitely going to try this

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you’ll love it 😊

I'm about to have so many cucumbers from my garden and I'm definitely going to be making this. Going to my local Asian market tomorrow!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so amazing! I’m sure it will be even more special with homegrown cucumbers!

This dish looks amazing. I have two cucumbers and couldn't decide what I wanted to do with them. Now I know! Thank you! :)

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent timing, love when it works out that way :)

I’d love to see your take on Fattoush! There’s a local Mediterranean restaurant near me who has the BEST fattoush but I can’t recreate it for the life of me.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh I love that suggestion!

Ohh this would be excellent over rice noodles ❤️

Just made this today and WOW! Mind blowing is an understatement. This is INSANELY good!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Love to hear that! I’m so glad you think so, Kayla.

I’ve really got to try this. I make a cucumber and onion salad all summer that’s just vinegar (I just use whatever flavor appeals to me at the moment-I last used white wine vinegar), sugar, water, salt and pepper for the liquid/dressing, then sliced onions and cucumbers. We always eat it cold, and it’s recommended that the mixture has time to ‘marinate’ before eating. I love using the Persian cucumbers, too, and whatever sweet onions are good in my stores.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Cucumbers, they are so underrated. This looks great (I also call them cukes) Nice to see you back!

Looks yuuum!!!!!

I'm a spice girl and love Korean dishes because of it. This is a great recipe and the sauce can also be used with white radish-Yum!😃

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

I am a huge spice fan too! Ooh intriguing, I am not a huge radish fan but I bet this dressing would make me like them haha.

Yummmm! I love spicy cucumber salad

This looks delicious and live the cucumber hack! Do you make a lot of dishes with the dried mushrooms from the asian supermarket? Some how there so intimidating to me 😂

Whoa this was delicious! Smashing the cucumbers is a must. I added cilantro, edamame, yellow bell pepper and some cashews to bulk it up it but the cucumbers were the star!

I love cucumbers. Definitely going to make this next time I have a glut from my garden

Just made this and it's super. I got small cukes from Trader Joe's. I also used my tofu press to get the liquid out quickly, works great. I added a little fresh lime juice.

wow - almost 800k subs. you deserve it.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

🥰 thank you thank you!

Looks super tasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cant wait to make this soon for me i never had spicy cucumber salad before perfect for my after office meals

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you will love it, Ramya!

Delicious

I am Korean and make stuffed cucumber kimchi (made with kirby cukes) all summer long. I was so happy to see this video. Thank you for recognizing Korean cuisine. If available (summer time only) kirby cukes are another option and in my opinion better than Persian cukes for this salad. Btw I just recently discovered this channel and love it because my Korean palate loves the spice and strong flavours of Indian food :).

Very good indeed. 🎊

Love making Korean dishes and the spicy cucumber is always on the list. I substitute cane sugar for coconut sugar and love it. My favorite side dish is spicy Kongnamul muchim. I make kimchi throughout the year and it’s so good with a nice rice dish with the spicy cucumbers and bean sprouts.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Coconut sugar would be great here! Homemade kimchi with one of those salads and rice sounds delish!

Instead of Gochujang, I used a mix of Tomato Paste+Chilli powder and it worked. It has the umami flavour just like in Gochujang. Thanks for the recipe..!

Awesomeness 😊

Osmosis! As a biology teacher, I am so happy to hear this word used correctly. :)

This will get put on the table soon to make a summer delicious crime scene! lol

I love the Asian market!

have to use a standard cucumber but i'll make it work!

I haven't seen or tried this type of salad before. Now I want to find out what it tastes like. Seems like I have to do some shopping of new ingredients.

Smashing the cucumber is a brilliant idea! Do you find that it helps to soak up the flavour more? Does it hold it in - or does it seep out if you left it overnight after dressed?

I make a version of this at home - smashed cumber salad is amazing. I prefer the technique of placing them in a plastic bag and smashing with a rolling pin, you get more shaggy/craggy chunks of cucumber!

Oh I totally forgot about this salad. I use to like in Hawaii and as a foodie I loved trying new food. It was such an Asian melting-pot. Thank you Vegan friend for this beautiful recipe. I'll have to try it.

I’m so glad you made this recipe! I keep seeing it all over KZread but it’s not always vegan.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you’ll love it! It’s so fun and flavorful.

This recipe is really great, i just added zucchini and pumpkin seeds for more protein and i can't just get enough of this dish

Yassss I love cucumber salads! Also, weird question, I’ve been craving seaweed recently, and i do have a lower iodine level, bc I have hypothyroidism, so ive been wondering if my iodine levels are lower?

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you’ll give it a go :) I’m not a nutritionist a doctor so I can’t say for sure, but seaweed is an incredible source of iodine! I eat it regularly for that reason but also because I enjoy it. An easy way to get started is with those seaweed snacks :)

You have a wonderful channel. Any advice to up and coming food channels? That would be an awesome video! 😆

Delicious! I just made it next to spicy tofu with rice.

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yum! Such a Great combo!

Love your spunk and spark Nisha! Keep up the great work ❤️🌈👍😂🌞

"Of course you do, ir's 2022", LOL

Thank you.

Omg that looks SO GOOD! Hahaha, anger or rage. I LOVE how you explain why you do what you do. Thank you for always curating amazing videos. We recommend every person, vegan or non-vegan, to you.

Fantastic recipe. How long do you think this will last as left overs? Two or three days? Maybe only one if we squish the cucumber? TY

I lived in South Korea for about 7 years and 오이무침 (oi muchim) was one of my absolute faves. So yum! Glad you found it and love it...I can totally relate to the mind blowing experience. Don't know if you'd like a sweet potato (not sweet potato the actual veg, but a regular potato with a sweet kick to it) side dish. Look up 알감자조림 (algamja jorim). Let me know if you try it and what you think :)

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

So cool that you lived there! I’d love to hear about some of your other favorites. I’ll look up the one you mentioned!

@nadiaarnold3634

2 жыл бұрын

@@RainbowPlantLife Two more that I really like are both packed with colourful veggies and super flavourful --> 잡채 (japchae), made with glass noodles and super tasty because you're meant to cook each vegetable on its own so the flavour of each is maintained when the whole dish comes together. And 비빔밥 (bibimbap), a very traditional Korean dish that I think dates back to the Joseon Dynasty period and a food the king used to eat often. I love the beautiful presentation of it...and then you mix it all together before eating it - so it's kind of a beautiful, delicious "mess". Hope you try those and enjoy them as much as I do!

A delicious crime scene!!! Added to this weeks meal plan- YUM

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Haha indeed it is :) hope you’ll love it!

Oh try using garlic chives as a garnish! Those are yummy!

Haha the green bell pepper of the cucumber world. You are so right though, life is too short to eat green peppers

I can’t wait to try this, as I have all but one of the ingredients in my pantry - and it’s not gochujang!

@RainbowPlantLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yay, love that you already have gochujang!

As one who is allergic to sesame, what oil would you use as a substitute for this recipe?

My daughter’s fav and she usually makes it. Next time she has a surprise❤