Cucumber
Cucumber or 'tangua' is called for most fresh vegetable side dish accompanying hot dishes.
In the U.S., there are 3 types of cucumber, English cucumber, regular cucumber, and pickling cucumber. English cucumbers are dark green and has soft seeds while regular cucumbers are dark green with yellow stripes and may have hard, white seeds. Pickling cucumbers are light green with white or yellow stripes and used for pickling but available fresh.
In Thailand, only pickling cucumbers are available. They are smaller and very crunchy.
For all Thai cooking, I find that there are no difference with any of the available U.S. cucumbers.
Recipes made with cucumber
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Chicken on Rice with Hot Yellow Bean Sauce
Kow Mun Gai
Chicken on rice cooked in chicken broth served with spicy soy bean sauce
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Satay
Marinated and grilled pork served on skewers with peanut sauce. A simpler recipe.
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Tod Mun Sauce
Nam Jim Tod Mun
The cucumber is pickled in sweet sour hot sauce topped with crushed peanuts.
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Tod Mun
Fried fish cake, spiced with Thai curry and kaffir lime leaves.
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