Crudités à la Mexicaine

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Ingredients

  • 6 kirby or Japanese cucumbers (small quartered lengthwise)
  • 4 carrots (medium halved crosswise and sliced into 1/-inch sticks)
  • 3 fennel bulbs (medium halved lengthwise, cored and sliced crosswise 1/4 inch thick)
  • 1 bunch radishes (large halved or quartered if large)
  • 1.5 cups green olives (rinsed)
  • 2 tablespoons kosher salt
  • 2 teaspoons pure chile powder (such as guajillo or Colorado)
  • Key limes (halved (see Note))

Steps

  1. Arrange the vegetables and olives on a platter. In a small bowl, combine the salt with the chile powder. Dip a lime half in the chile salt and dab the vegetables with it; squeeze the juice over the vegetables. Serve with the remaining lime halves and with the remaining chile salt in a dipping bowl.