Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Cucumber recipes to keep you cool

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

Sichuan-Style Smashed Cucumber Salad

Mustard Oil-Dressed Cucumber Salad

The Ultimate Greek Salad

Cucumber Raita

Classic Shrimp Aguachile With Lime, Cucumber, and Red Onion

Quick and Easy Dill Pickle Chips for Hamburgers and Sandwiches

Lacto-Fermented Dill Pickles

Easy Teriyaki-Glazed Salmon, Cucumber, and Avocado Rice Bowls

Quick-Pickled Cucumbers

Eggplant Spirals With Greek Yogurt, Tomatoes, and Cucumber

Turn sourdough discard into fancy cheeseboard crackers

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Sourdough Rye Crackers With Coriander and Fennel

Crackers are the go-to option for many bakers looking to use up excess sourdough starter. They should be forgiving and shouldn’t demand much thought. In this recipe, rye flour serves as a foundation for nutty, earthy flavors. Sparkling white wine like Champagne or cava adds both sweetness and a fruity kick to the crackers that play nicely with the funky sourness of the starter (if you don't have the wine, a sparkling cider could work, too). Cracked coriander reinforces citrus and sweet notes while the subtle licorice flavor of fennel seed sneaks up on you with each bite.

The resulting crackers are thin, shatteringly crisp, and feature a dark, caramel color. They’re salty, sweet, and lightly tart—perfect for a cheeseboard. And because you bake them in large sheets, they can be broken into various sizes to suit your entertaining or snacking needs.

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