Just inherited a bunch of cucumbers from a friend’s garden. I love them just on their own with some salt, and have made many a salad using them. I’m curious what kinds of fun things you all may use them for. Even if you feel like it’s basic please share as I will be eating cucumbers for the next several days straight lol. Thanks for any and all suggestions!
I personally like them on sandwiches or wraps. They add a nice texture and they taste good. I’ll often replace pickles with them, since they are the same thing, just one is pickled.
My daughter loves to cut cucumbers (Persian/English ones with limited seeds and a pretty solid core) into little serving vessels.
She gets a 5cm/2inch diameter cuke, chops it into 4cm/1.5inch cylinders, uses a melon baller to scoop out most of the middle - making a kind of cucumber-based cup, then she fills it up with whatever she’s fashioned out of available ingredients.
She’s done guacamole, egg salad, some kind of bizarre ham and soy sauce and carrot thing, a Philadelphia-cream-cheese-based mix, leftover fried-rice. Basically, whatever you can ram into a cucumber goes!
If you want a fun way to plate different taste sensations it’s an attractive presentation option! It also serves to “revitalise” leftovers, providing an alternative serving platform to keep finicky-eaters engaged. It also also means you don’t need a knife/fork and maybe not even another plate apart from the serving one, so saves you some washing up 🙂
Cucumber is good for meatless sandwiches. The classic English tea sandwich is cucumber and cream cheese. I like cucumber, hummus, onion, and tomato on seeded whole wheat. It gives a sandwich that relies on a spread for it's primary filling flavor some thickness and crunch.
I should eat them more, but I have an irrational fear that they’ll go moldy before I even cut them. Mostly only use them in tzatziki and sushi, but they’re good in a salad, sandwich, anything requiring a refreshing component.
So it’s not exactly sophisticated but cucumber water. I love it, every time I go somewhere that has cucumber water I always think I’m somewhere posh (even though it costs pennies).
Korean spicy seasoned cucumber (oi muchim) is awesome with any meal with rice. Other than gochugaru (hot pepper flakes), every other ingredient you can get at a typical grocery store. I always have gochugaru on hand so I make this pretty regularly with lunch
Absolutely this. I make a slightly different version.
Halve a few cucumbers, chop into 1/2" pieces, I then crush line under a plate or bowl, not to pulp but just to break them up some. Salt and set aside for a few minutes to draw some moisture out. Drain, then add a tbsp or so of gochujang, a clove or so of garlic, tsp or so sesame oil, splash ponzu, 1 tsp sugar, and chili flakes to taste.
Honestly I’ve even just parsed it down to gochujang and sesame oil and it’s great.
Greek salad with diced cucumber, tomato, onion, olives, and feta with a vinaigrette is delicious. Also, cucumber and onion salad is just cucumbers, onions, white vinegar, water, salt, pepper, and a little sugar is delicious. I can’t remember the measurements but it should be very easy to find online.
Make pickles. It's easy to make refrigerator pickles you just need some vinegar and spices. It works the best if their pickling cucumbers but the regular ones work alright. The flavor is the but the texture is a little off
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