Cucumber relish (Ajat) from Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand (page 319) by Leela Punyaratabandhu

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    "Distilled vinegar, also known as virgin vinegar, can be made from just about any vinegar – for instance: rice, malt, wine, fruit, balsamic, apple cider, kiwifruit, rice, coconut, palm, cane, raisin, date, beer, honey, kombucha, and much more. As its name suggests, this vinegar is distilled from ethanol. ‘Distilled’ plainly means that the liquid component is separated from the base mixture. This produces a colorless solution with 5-8% acetic acid in the water – relatively weaker than white or spirit vinegar." http://www.differencebetween.net/object/comparisons-of-food-items/difference-between-white-and-distilled-vinegar/
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Accompaniments: Fried taro dumplings with shrimp-coconut filling (Khang khao phueak); Beef and cucumber curry (Kaeng bumbai nuea)

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  • patioweather on October 03, 2022

    I've made both the Bangkok and Simple Thai Food versions. I don't have the recipes near by to compare side by side, but my photos of each look identical, so I suspect they are the same recipe. I doubled the cucumber and left all of the other ingredients the same. People devoured it, including a lifelong cucumber hater who is now questioning his reality. We ended up with a bunch of liquid leftover, so we threw in raw snap peas and then later ate those too.

  • kitchen_chick on October 22, 2019

    Refreshing relish, and a different preparation than many of the Thai cucumber salads I've made before. I used half the sugar and we thought it was too sweet (though still delicious), so I'm going to try just one tablespoon of sugar next time. Note: the recipe says to peel the cucumbers, but the photo in the cookbook shows them with their skins still on.

  • lkgrover on August 27, 2019

    Refreshing cucumber recipe with simple preparation. I would serve it is a salad or side dish. I substituted rice vinegar for distilled white vinegar, jalapeno chiles for Thai chiles, and parsley for cilantro.

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