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Fresh Cucumber Salad, prepared and served in a bowl, and topped with slices of red onion
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10

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Fresh Cucumber Salad

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Description

Does your garden have more cucumbers than you know what to do with? One way to use them up is in salads.

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 5 cups cucumbers, peeled and slice (approx. 5 whole cucumbers)
  • 1½ cups half and half
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ teaspoon salt (adjust to taste)
  • ¼ teaspoon black pepper (adjust to taste)
  • ½ cup onion, sliced
  • 2 tablespoons fresh dill
  • 3 tablespoons vinegar
Directions

Directions

Mix together with spoon and pour in with the cucumbers. Refrigerate about four hours.

Source: Adapted from: Schott (Janke), A. (2012). Alma’s Favorite Recipes: Cooking & Memories from a German-Russian Farm Kitchen. Germans from Russia Heritage Collection.

Dietary and Nutrition

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Popular slicing cucumber varieties include Summer Dance, Sweet Slice, Sweet Success, Tasty Green, General Lee and Straight Eight. One cup of cucumber slices has 15 calories.

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Field to Fork: Cucumbers (FN2038, August 2021)

Popular slicing cucumber varieties include Summer Dance, Sweet Slice, Sweet Success, Tasty Green, General Lee and Straight Eight. Popular varieties for pickling include Homemade Pickles, Calypso and H-19 Little Leaf.

VARY YOUR VEGGIES: Why Eat Vegetables? (FN1452, Reviewed April 2020)

Vegetables are versatile, nutritious, colorful and flavorful. Not only are they naturally low in calories, fat and sodium, but they also are good sources of important vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber.

This recipe was analyzed for nutrition using Food Processor SQL Nutrition and Fitness Software and tested in the kitchen.

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