{"id":7936,"date":"2019-10-13T06:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:35:32","slug":"tropical-cucumber-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/tropical-cucumber-salad.html","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cucumber Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Combine cucumber, avocado and mango with a salty-sweet dressing for a taste of the tropics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 tsp fish sauce<\/li>\n<li>3 tsp freshly grated lime zest, plus more for garnish<\/li>\n<li>6 Tab lime juice<\/li>\n<li>3 Tab canola oil<\/li>\n<li>2 Tab light brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 Tab rice vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp crushed red pepper<\/li>\n<li>2 medium English cucumber, cut into 3\/4-inch dice<\/li>\n<li>3 avocado, cut into 3\/4-inch dice<\/li>\n<li>3 mango, cut into 3\/4-inch dice (see Kitchen Tip)<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 c chopped fresh cilantro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Whisk fish sauce , lime zest, lime juice, oil, brown sugar, vinegar and crushed red pepper in a large bowl until combined.<\/li>\n<li>Add cucumber, avocado, mango and cilantro; gently toss to coat.<\/li>\n<li>Serve garnished with lime zest, if desired.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Make Ahead Tip: Cover and refrigerate for up to 1 hour.<\/p>\n<p>Kitchen Tip: To peel and cut a mango:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Slice both ends off the mango, revealing the long, slender seed inside.<\/li>\n<li>Set the fruit upright on a work surface and remove the skin with a sharp knife.<\/li>\n<li>With the seed perpendicular to you, slice the fruit from both sides of the seed, yielding two large pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Turn the seed parallel to you and slice the two smaller pieces of fruit from each side.<\/li>\n<li>Cut the fruit into the desired shape.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> 8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0 <\/strong>Villa Park Women&#8217;s League:\u00a0\u00a0Exploring the Fresh Tastes of Mexico<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combine cucumber, avocado and mango with a salty-sweet dressing for a taste of the tropics. Ingredients: 5 tsp fish sauce 3 tsp freshly grated lime zest, plus more for garnish 6 Tab lime juice 3 Tab canola oil 2 Tab light brown sugar 1 Tab rice vinegar 1\/2 tsp crushed red pepper 2 medium English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/tropical-cucumber-salad.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tropical Cucumber Salad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salads-and-salad-dressings","tag-vpwl-oct-2012"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}