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Cucumber salad with amasi raita

By Khanya Mzongwana
4
Easy
20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 large cucumber
  • 1⁄2 cup amasi
  • 10 g dill, chopped
  • 10 g mint, roughly chopped
  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 2 T Woolworths chilli crunch
  • For the gomashio sprinkle:

  • 70 g sesame seeds, toasted
  • 1 T sea salt

Method

1. Peel the cucumber and set aside the skin. Using a vegetable peeler, slice the cucumber into ribbons and arrange on a platter.

2. To make the amasi raita, place the cucumber peel, amasi, dill, mint, lemon juice and zest, salt and pepper into a blender and blitz until smooth. Drizzle over the cucumber.

3. To make the gomashio sprinkle, place the sesame seeds and salt in a blender and pulse until the sesame seeds are cracked. Sprinkle onto the salad, spoon over the chilli crunch and serve immediately.

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Photograph: Toby Murphy
Production: Khanya Mzongwana
Food assistant: Ellah Maepa and Leila-ann Mokotedi