10 Easy Cucumber Salad Recipes That Will Change The Way You Eat Cucumbers!
Easy Cucumber Salad Recipes
Cucumber is a great vegetable that brings numerous health benefits when consumed – it can flush out toxins, refreshes the mouth, smooths hair and nails, encourage insulin production and others. It’s great choice for salad and pickled. But, don’t you wish there’s more interesting ways to consume this amazing vegetable? You know, ways that could even trance a child into eating more cucumbers? Let’s look at this list and find out!
Due to similarities between cucumbers and zucchini, recipes involving both vegetables will be included.
1. Cool Cuke
Bend those slices of cucumbers into attractive little boat shapes! The cool cuke makes a really nice snack for parties and picnics. It has a mix of egg and sardine as filling. The curved cucumber works both as food presentation as well as to hold the filling in a partial cup shape.
2. Blackened Shrimp Avocado Cucumber Bites
This is one light and healthy snack that only takes a few minutes to make. You’re probably wondering why it is called “blackened”. It’s called that way because it is darkened by creole seasoning. You gotta checkout how chef Kevin made this amazing dish. Click on the source link below for the recipe!
3. Cucumber Sushi Roll
Cucumber sushi roll is a refreshing way to fuse a little Japanese style into your typical cucumber. The cucumber is hollowed into a tube using spoon and knife. After all the seeds are removed, you can stuff it with japanese rice, peppers and avocado fillings. Be sure to press firmly so you’ll get a nice colorful slice of sushi when you cut it.
4. Cheesy Hasselback Zucchini Pizzas
This is an entire new look on how to eat your cucumber! The cucumber/zucchini is sliced from one end to another without cutting the whole way through. Cheese slices and pepperonis are stuffed in between these cuts before baking them. Just looking at this made me salivate. Follow through the source link below for the recipe!
5. Raw Zucchini Squash Sandwiches with Sprouted Hummus
Okay, zucchini isn’t exactly cucumber but you can replace it! The filling consist of cucumber, peas, hummus and basil. But, you won’t go wrong if you put a slice of bacon in there instead yeah?
6. Cucumber Wrap Salad with Bacon and Blue Cheese
This may look like a difficult recipe to make but it’s not. First, get a vegetable peeler and make a long and thin cucumber slice. The strip will wrap around the whole thing. You can use two strips for added sturdiness. Then, make the cucumber strips into the shape of a bottomless bowl. Put a lettuce piece to cover the bottom. Finally, put all your bacons, carrot strips, crumbled blue cheese and pecans onto the lettuce. Arrange the bacon and carrot strips so that they stand and give an amazing presentation that will leave your guests salivating.
7. Stuffed Cucumber Bites
When it comes to serving a huge amount of guests, it’s always important to have lots of easy to make bites to keep them entertained. So, this is one of the easiest recipes that you can make in a large batch. You just need to cut the cucumber into small pieces. Hollow it out to make a cup. Then, squeeze some cream cheese on it with a piping bag. And finally, garnish with half a slice of cherry tomato.
8. Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese Cucumber Bites
This exquisite bite has cream cheese sandwiched between a slice of cucumber and salmon. And, the wooden fork secures the salmon slice beautifully onto the cucumber. It’s nice to have this as appetizers. It’ll keep the guests excited despite how easy it is to make it.
9. Cucumber Cream Cheese Spread
Here’s something unusual for the list! It’s a spread that you can put on toast, crackers and just about anything you like! Checkout the source link below for the recipe.
10. Cucumber Roll Ups
This reminds me of spring roll. Instead of spring roll wrappers, cucumber strips is used instead. Mandolin slicer or vegetable peeler can be used to cut the cucumber into thin strips. Spread the hummus on top of the cucumber before rolling them.
For the finishing touch, you can use sun dried tomato sauce.
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