Creamy Cucumber Salad
This light and creamy cucumber salad is just the thing to help cool you off during the hot summer months.
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber peel on or off
- 2 tbsp Greek yogurt
- 2-3 tbsp milk or cream
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp fresh dill
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley
- 1 tsp fresh chives
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Thinly slice the cucumber.
- Mix together the ingredients for the dressing, adding salt and pepper to taste and adjusting the seasonings as neeeded.
- Toss the cucumber slices in the dressing and serve!
Notes
- Some folks find that chilling the salad helps to beat the heat.
- In traditional German cucumber salad recipes, the cucumbers are salted and set aside for half an hour or so. This releases the water, so you won't end up with a soggy salad (this is especially important if you slice the cucumbers super thin). Just be sure to rinse off the salt!
- If you don't have access to fresh herbs, use dried, but cut the amount in half ie. 1 tbsp fresh = 1/2 tbsp dried.
- While I don't mind cucumber seeds in my salad, if you have a particularly seedy variety, you might want to scoop them out if you're worried about the texture.
- Try swapping out the lemon juice for vinegar.
- Consider adding a pinch of sugar.