Creamy Cucumber Salad amongst Fresh Herbs This unproblematic cucumber salad gets a jar of flavor pizazz from fresh dill, parsley, in addition to mint. And believe me, it's a genuinely fabulous flavor combination.
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Summer gardens are actually starting to percentage their loot! And I couldn't move happier. I but adore fresh arrive at directly from garden. Nothing beats that just-picked taste.
But amongst all the harvest bounty, the query thence becomes ... What to exercise amongst all that beautiful garden-fresh loot earlier it goes-to-the-bad?
Well if you've got cucumbers inwards your garden, this Creamy Cucumber Salad amongst Fresh Herbs is sure a GREAT answer.
This unproblematic cucumber salad gets a jar of flavor pizazz from fresh dill, parsley, in addition to mint. And believe me, it's a genuinely fabulous flavor combination.
Sadly, I'm non a gardener myself. Believe me when I tell I'm non blessed amongst a dark-green thumb.
I swear, it's tough for me to fifty-fifty move along artificial plants alive.
But fortunately, I larn to percentage inwards the results from my mother-in-law's garden. Unlike me, she is a fabulous gardener amongst i of the greenest thumbs around!
Just cause got a expect at these photos from her garden ... isn't her garden gorgeous?
She grows it all okra, squash, tomatoes, dark-green beans, shelly beans, bell peppers, blackberries, pumpkins ... you lot bring upwardly it.
After working over at my mother-in-law's occupation solid the other day, my married adult man came dwelling amongst a large pocketbook of fresh cucumbers. They were our get-go garden cucumbers of the season!
I at i time knew what I wanted to brand ... a large batch of Creamy Cucumber Salad amongst Fresh Herbs.
While mint may seem similar an strange addition, the cucumber in addition to mint twosome together but beautifully.
My mother in law makes a rattling unproblematic cucumber salad dish yesteryear tossing thinly sliced cucs in addition to onions amongst a flake of sour cream.
This Creamy Cucumber Salad amongst Fresh Herbs is a jazzed upwardly version of that unproblematic dish ... getting some zippy pizazz from a flake of fresh lemon juice, Dijon mustard in addition to a combination of fresh dill, parsley, in addition to mint.
It's amazing the fabulous flavor this unproblematic mix of fresh herbs brings to this salad. It's a freshness in addition to herb-iness that's genuinely wonderful. And spell mint may seem similar an strange addition, the cucumber in addition to mint twosome together but beautifully.
I know I'm sure as shooting looking forwards to enjoying much to a greater extent than of my mother-in-law's summertime garden loot ... in addition to looking forwards to enjoying many to a greater extent than bowls of Creamy Cucumber Salad amongst Fresh Herbs!
Thank you lot for stopping yesteryear . We'd dear to cause got you lot dorsum soon!
Creamy Cucumber Salad amongst Fresh Herbs
Source: Adapted from Cooking Light magazine & my mother-in-law
(Printable recipe)
IngredientsSource: Adapted from Cooking Light magazine & my mother-in-law
(Printable recipe)
- 4 to v c. thinly sliced cucumbers {about 2 large}
- 1 c. thinly sliced cherry-red onion {about one-half an onion}
- 1/4 c. sour cream
- 2 T. chopped fresh dill
- 1 T. chopped fresh parsley
- 1/2 T. chopped fresh mint
- 2 T. fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
- 1/4 tsp. granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- Place cucumber in addition to onion inwards a large bowl.
- In a mixing bowl, combine sour cream, dill, parsley, mint, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, sugar, salt, in addition to pepper; stir until good blended.
- Drizzle sour cream mixture over cucumbers. Toss to coat. Serve immediately.
Note - The cucumbers get to unloosen H2O i time tossed amongst the sour cream dressing, thence toss together but earlier serving. If you lot necessitate to gear upwardly the salad a flake inwards advance, refrigerate the cucumbers/onions in addition to dressing mixture inwards dissever bowls until ready to serve.
