22 Cucumber Recipes to Keep Cool All Summer

Cucumbers, whether fresh or pickled, show up everywhere: layered into sandwiches, tossed into salads, and added to plates as a garnish, sometimes cut into fanciful shapes or adorned with decorative edging. Still, they can feel under-appreciated: How often do we stop to really savor the cucumber's sweet, grassy flavor and refreshing crunch?

To give this crisp summer vegetable its deserved place in the limelight, you can, of course, incorporate it into all manner of salads—a fully loaded Greek salad or a soba salad with seaweed and cucumbers is a good place to start. But that's just the beginning, as you'll see from the collection of recipes here, which includes cucumbers smashed and dressed in vinegar, stir-fried with pork, as a topping for burgers, and wrapped in smoky grilled eggplant.

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Cucumber Recipes