Summer dishes made from fresh cucumbers have always been the hit of the season. A variety of salads are especially popular at this time, which are easy to digest and refresh on a hot summer day. However, fresh cucumbers can be used to prepare not only familiar salads, but also rather unusual dishes that can be safely served on the festive table.
Snacks
Fresh cucumbers are perfect for summer snacks. In addition to their thin circles on canapes and sandwiches, you can prepare original cucumber slices in the form of shavings or ribbons. Delicious cucumber rolls filled with crab sticks, cottage cheese, seafood, rice, vegetables, herbs, smoked meats and poultry are prepared from these slices. You can also make a fancy salad that requires 2 fresh cucumbers, 2 kiwis, 10 green onions, and a small bunch of mint.
This salad goes well with steaks, chops or baked pork ribs.
Cut cucumbers and kiwi into small cubes, mix with chopped mint and onions, sprinkle with a dressing of 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Also, fresh cucumbers mixed with pickled cucumbers make a spicy sauce that goes well with toast, boiled potatoes, dumplings or fried meat. To prepare it, you will need 5 small pickled cucumbers, 1 fresh cucumber, 4 tablespoons of sour cream, 2 cloves of garlic, 6 tablespoons of mayonnaise and any greens. Grate cucumbers, mix with mayonnaise, chopped garlic, sour cream and herbs, squeeze out excess juice and pour sauce over the dish.
Cold cucumber soup
A very unusual and delicious dish made from fresh cucumbers is cold cucumber soup. To prepare it, you need to take 1 kilogram of cucumbers, 200 grams of thick sour cream, 1 liter of vegetable broth, 200 milliliters of 30% cream, 1 tablespoon of mustard, 3 cloves of garlic, 200 grams of smoked red fish, a bunch of greens and crackers. Thoroughly washed and peeled cucumbers are rubbed on a coarse grater, and sour cream, chopped mint, cream, herbs and mustard are added to the broth, mixing everything with a whisk.
To make a low-calorie cucumber soup, remove the heavy cream from the recipe.
Then in the future soup you need to add grated cucumbers and garlic, passed through a press, mix the soup and put it in the refrigerator for several hours. Before serving the cold cucumber soup, whipped cream is added and garnished with diced fish croutons. If desired, fresh cucumbers can be made much softer and tastier by stewing them over low heat. In addition, cucumbers can be baked, fried and stuffed, adding to different dishes.
