Ingeniously delicious: Grandma's lightning-fast cucumber salad made from 3 ingredients is a secret weapon for every day
Created: 07/07/2022 05:41
By: Anne Tessin
Quick cucumber salad is a crunchy treat.
If you follow a little trick when preparing it, it tastes much more intense and immediately tastier.
Yes, you know, vegetables should be part of the daily menu.
Do you lack the time and desire to chop together a colorful salad every day?
Then just try a quick cucumber salad.
The green vegetables are in season and ready to be harvested in large quantities (this is how you store cucumbers correctly, by the way).
In addition, cucumbers contain
a lot of water, few calories and, thanks to potassium, have a slightly draining effect
.
Need more reasons?
This crunchy cucumber salad is ready in no time and also tastes good to guests at the grill buffet.
So let's get started.
Cucumber salad provides many nutrients and always works.
Especially when it's so easy to make.
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Quick recipe for cucumber salad with vinegar and oil
1 large cucumber
5 tablespoons sunflower oil (alternatively: another, neutral vegetable oil)
3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
Spices: salt, sugar, pepper, optional: 0.5 bunch of dill
Wash before eating?
Definitely not with these foods!
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Grandma's three-ingredient cucumber salad: how to prepare it
If you like, peel the cucumber with a vegetable peeler, but it's not a must.
Leave the peel on, get an extra portion of vitamins and save yourself work.
In this case, wash the cucumbers thoroughly and cut off the ends.
Now cut the cucumber into thin slices with a knife or use a mandolin.
Of course, the second variant works much faster, but watch out for your fingers.
Sprinkle the cucumber slices in a bowl with plenty of salt and let them sit, covered, for 5 to 10 minutes.
During this time, the salt draws out excess water from the cucumbers, which would dilute the later vinegar and oil dressing.
This small intermediate step ensures that your cucumber salad tastes more intense.
While the cucumber slices are steeping, whip the oil and vinegar with a little sugar and pepper until everything has combined as well as possible.
Drain the water from the bowl and stir in the vinegar and oil mixture.
Season your quick cucumber salad with salt, sugar, and pepper until it's just your liking.
If you want to refine the cucumber salad with dill, you have to chop it finely before you get to the cucumber salad.
Experienced cucumber slicers have this salad ready and on the plate in less than ten minutes - it tastes refreshing and delicious every time.
You can conjure up another delicious variant with mayonnaise.
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