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This crunchy, zesty and creamy Cucumber Salad is so simple to make and totally delicious. It’s light but packed with flavour for the perfect summer side dish.
For my simple salad recipes I took inspiration from you all telling me how bags of lettuce leaves are your main fridge throw-away.
This Cucumber Salad is made up of just a few ingredients with a longer shelf-life – not a limp leaf in sight!
The simple dressing is made up of natural or Greek yoghurt, dill, garlic and lemon juice, with the main salad ingredients just cucumber, peppers and onions, which keep well so you can always come up with a salad, even when you haven’t been grocery shopping.
Salads don’t have to be overly elaborate to be delicious!
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Why you’ll love this Cucumber Salad recipe
⭐️ Colourful and fresh
⭐️ Budget friendly
⭐️ Easy to keep ingredients
Cucumber Salad Ingredients Notes
- Main ingredients – Cucumber, yellow peppers, red onion
- Dressing ingredients – Yoghurt (natural or Greek is fine), lemon juice, garlic powder, dried dill and salt
How to make a Cucumber Salad
1. Chop all of the salad into chunks and add to a bowl.
2. Make the dressing in a separate bowl. Add to the salad bowl, mix well and serve.
Substitutions
- Salad ingredients – Feel free to add anything you like or have in your fridge into the mix
Leftovers
Fridge Cover this well and refrigerate for the next day. It may go a little limp and soggy, so don’t leave it hanging around for too long!
In the freezer I wouldn’t recommend freezing this salad as it will go far too watery when defrosted.
Recipe Tip
If you want this to last longer in the fridge without getting watery, salt your cucumbers first.
How:
Cut them up, put them in a colander, sprinkle with a LOT of salt (about 2tsp). Leave for 10 mins, then rinse really really well before carrying on.
This draws the water out so it doesn’t come out into the main salad.
Enjoy this salad with…
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FAQs
The beauty of this salad is that its ingredients last way longer than a bag of lettuce leaves.
They don’t keep forever, but you should be ok if using within 1-2 weeks for cucumber and peppers, and longer for red onion. This is ideal if you just do one shop a week but want to eat fresh salads.
Whatever you like! This fresh and creamy salad would be fantastic on the side of mackerel or chicken for lunch.
You could also serve this as part of a bigger meal or barbecue when entertaining, or even eat on its own.
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Simple Cucumber Salad {with Yoghurt Dressing}
Ingredients
- 1 Cucumber
- 2 Yellow peppers
- 1 Red onion
For the dressing:
- 250 g Yoghurt (natural or Greek is fine)
- Juice of 1-2 lemons, To taste
- 2 tsp Garlic powder
- 2 tsp Dried dill
- Salt, To taste
Instructions
- Chop all of the salad into chunks and add to a bowl.
- Make the dressing in a separate bowl. Add to the salad bowl, mix well and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
