Sesame Lemon Cucumber Salad

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1997, America's Test Kitchen TV

No matter how you dress them, a preliminary salting and draining of sliced cucumbers maximizes their crunchy texture.

SERVES 4 as a side dish

TIME 20 minutes, plus 1 hour draining

Sesame Lemon Cucumber Salad

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a cucumber salad recipe with good crunch, we found that weighting salted cucumbers forced more water from them than salting alone. After many tests, we determined that one to three hours worked best for our cucumber salad recipe: Even a...

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