Cucumbers, in summer time? Groundbreaking.
TikTok meals typically falls someplace between grotesque and meh on the deliciousness spectrum. Recipes designed to go viral, it seems, aren’t all the time the most effective at producing meals that is a pleasure to really ingest.
One thing just like the viral feta pasta? Truthfully, it was fairly first rate. However for each good recipe, there’s gross-as-hell air-fried fruit or one thing that is stuffed, fried, coated in Doritos, and disgusting, nevertheless it will get views. TikTok’s newest meals obsession, nevertheless, is truly an important dish. It is easy and scrumptious. Principally, it is a recipe for a flippantly marinated cucumber salad, and folk on the app are loving it.
That is sensible, contemplating that it is an ideal summer time facet dish and an everyday accompaniment to my fried rooster, one other summer time favourite.
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So far as I can inform, it began with TikTok creator @logagm, actual identify Logan, who posted a recipe for one of the best ways “to eat a complete cucumber” in July. Logan, who shares plenty of Korean recipes on the platform, thinly slices the cuke, then flippantly marinated it with soy, fish sauce, sugar, MSG, sesame oil, garlic, inexperienced onion, and sesame seeds. He shakes it up in a quart-sized container, successfully making a fast cucumber salad. The recipe has racked up greater than 9 million views.
Logan, seemingly sensing the second, has gone on to put up a ton of various cucumber recipes. Most lean on Asian flavors and contain a light-weight pickle or marinade. They’ve all racked up hundreds of thousands of views. And now, after all, TikTok is obsessive about cucumbers. Search round, and cucumber salad movies are in all places on the app. Massively standard creator Alix Earle made one. So did @boywithnojob. Severely, go searching and see what number of completely different recipes there are.
It is sensible, contemplating it is summertime within the States, and cucumbers are completely refreshing on a scorching day. In addition they have little or no style on their very own however tackle the flavors of a marinade fairly nicely. As an individual who loves meals — and cooking wise meals with good components — it is fairly cool to see folks on-line speaking a lot a few easy, tasty dish and a humble vegetable (cukes are technically fruit, however, come on, they are a veggie).
So, whereas summer time lasts, TikTok may truly be an important place to get a recipe for a facet dish. As a result of typically you actually just do have to eat an entire cucumber.