Thai cucumber salad (ceideburg)

Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

2 Cucumbers
3 tb Round thin red chile -pepper slices (with seeds)
3 tb Chopped red onions
2 Heaping tablespoons dried

Instructions:

-shrimp ground to a coarse -powder in a mortar or food -processor (should be about -2 tablespoons powder). 3 tb Fresh lime juice 1 1/2 tb Fish sauce 2 tb Sugar 1 tb Peanut oil 1/4 c Crushed roasted or fried -peanuts Peel cucumbers. Cut off the ends; cut them in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds. Slice them thinly into half moons. Add the cucumbers to a bowl with the chiles and onion. Add the ground shrimp lime juice fish sauce sugar and peanut oil; toss well. Allow to sit or serve immediately sprinkled with the peanuts. Posted by Stephen Ceideburg; January 21 1991.