You can make a huge number of different salads from fresh cucumbers, which will be incredibly tasty and enriched with vitamins and other useful substances.
It is necessary
- For the Green salad:
- - 3 cucumbers;
- - 3 eggs;
- - lettuce leaves;
- - mayonnaise;
- - onion;
- - salt.
- For the "Piquant" salad:
- - cucumbers;
- - onions, 1 pc;
- - 2 cloves of garlic;
- - 0.5 tbsp. wine vinegar;
- - 2 tbsp. olive oil;
- - salt pepper.
- For cucumber and radish salad:
- - 300 g of radish;
- - 3 cucumbers;
- - salt pepper;
- - fresh herbs;
- - mayonnaise or vegetable oil.
- For the tuna salad:
- - 1 can of canned tuna;
- - 3 cucumbers;
- - parsley;
- - lemon juice;
- - vegetable oil;
- - olives.
- For the Classic salad:
- - 4 cucumbers;
- - 2 cloves of garlic;
- - dill;
- - salt pepper;
- - vinegar;
- - vegetable oil.
Instructions
Step 1
To quickly and tasty feed your whole family, you can prepare a salad for lunch, which is called "Green" because of the ingredients it contains. Take three eggs and boil them hard. After the eggs have cooled, peel and cut into small cubes. The cucumber also needs to be washed and peeled, and then cut into medium-sized cubes. Put lettuce leaves on a plate, put eggs, cucumbers, salt, mayonnaise on top, mix it all. If you love onions, you can add them to this salad.
Step 2
The "spicy" salad is the simplest combination of cucumbers and onions, but the garlic and wine vinegar with which it is seasoned gives this dish a special taste. Wash the cucumbers and cut them into thin slices (you determine the number of cucumbers yourself, depending on the number of members of your family), you also need to chop the onions, finely chop 2 cloves of garlic, add salt, pepper to taste, mix all this and season with a small amount wine vinegar and two tablespoons of olive oil.
Step 3
Another option for an interesting summer salad is a salad of fresh cucumbers and radishes. Wash fresh vegetables thoroughly, cut radishes into thin slices and cucumbers into cubes or strips. Stir these ingredients, add some finely chopped fresh herbs, salt, pepper to them. The salad can be seasoned with mayonnaise or vegetable oil, of your choice.
Step 4
Alternatively, you can make a cucumber salad with tuna. Take a can of canned tuna, open it, drain the liquid, put the fish in a separate plate and chop with an ordinary fork. Wash and dice a fresh cucumber, finely chop the parsley leaves, mix all the ingredients, drizzle with lemon juice and season with vegetable oil. Remember that you do not need to salt this salad, as the tuna already contains salt. The finished dish can be garnished with lemon or olives, as well as whole parsley leaves.
Step 5
The simplest salad you can make with fresh cucumbers is "Classic". It can even be used as a daily snack. To prepare it, you mix chopped cucumbers with chopped garlic, add dill, salt, pepper, vegetable oil and vinegar.
