What can be cooked from cucumbers

Cucumber is an annual vegetable that has grown in the beds many hostesses. In the rustling of the cucumber season, these vegetables can be preserved, salted and harvested in the form of salads for the winter. But, if I want to be cucumbling right away, and not wait until the winter, you will not surprise anyone with a familiar vegetable salad. Cucumber dishes are not only delicious and fast in preparation, but also look beautiful and harmonious. The supply of such dishes can be exquisite and decent to any solemn table.

1

Cucumber rolls

Such rolls will become excellent festive snack with a beautiful presentation and excellent taste. With the components of the dish, you can and need to experiment. Instead of shrimp, you can add crab meat, olives or capers, and creamy soft cheese to replace fatty cottage cheese.

Ingredients:

• cucumber long varieties - 1 pc.
• soft cheese (Philadelphia, mascarpone) - 100 g
• shrimps - 200 g
• dill - 10 g

1. Protectly mix cheese with finely disturbed greens.
2. Boil shrimp with salt adding, then clean.
3. Finely chop shrimp and add to cheese stuffing. To get a more creamy consistency - take the cheese, greens and shrimp in the blender.
4. Washed cucumber cut into thin slots.
5. Collapse cucumber slots into the rolls of the desired form.
6. Using a spoon or confectionery bag to fill rolls with stuffing.
7. Decorate the dish with shrimps, olives or red caviar.

2

Kimchi from cucumbers

This Korean sharp snack will be an excellent addition to the main dish, both to meat and fish. Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - 950 g
• Carrot - 1.5 pcs.
• Green Bow - 1/2 beam
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 4-5 teeth
• Water - 75 ml.
• Chile Pepper - 5 g
• soy sauce - 3 tbsp.
• Salt - 2 tbsp.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Schuput - 1 tbsp.

1. Thoroughly wash the cucumbers and cut the nestly to the end.
2. Turn the cucumbers with salt inside and outside. Leave to marinate for 10 minutes, then mix well and leave even at the same time. After marinating, wash the cucumbers.
3. Grasp carrots or grind straws. Sept garlic and two places onions, finely chop chili pepper.
4. Prepare a refueling: mix carrots, onions, garlic, soy sauce, water, sugar, chili and sesame.
5. Fill the cucumbers with fragrant refueling and send to the refrigerator.
6. Before serving, squeeze the dish with sesame grains.

3

Low-headed cucumbers

Prepare crispy and fragrant cucumbers in just 1 hour is quite possible. Such a dish will turn out to be delicious, spicy and very fast. Ingredients:

• cucumbers - 2 kg
• dill Green - Bunch
• garlic - 1 head
• currant / Khrena leaves - 5 pcs.
• bay leaf - 3-4 pcs.
• water - 200 ml.
• salt - 4 ppm

1. Wash the cucumbers thoroughly, crop the edges on both sides.
2. Make 2-3 longitudinal deep outbreaks on each cucumber.
3. Grind garlic through the press or crush the blade of the knife. Choking greens.
4. Place the cucumbers in the cellophane package, fall asleep with salt evenly, add dill, water, bay leaf and garlic. Pour water and, if desired, add chren leaves or currant.
5. Tightly close the package, mix the cucumbers well so that they are evenly covered with marinade, and leave for an hour. Then send to the cold or serve to the table.

4

Korean cucumbers

Excellent option for fans of sharp and spicy dishes. Ingredients:

• cucumbers - 500 g
• onions - 1 pc.
• chile - 3 g
• garlic - 4 teeth
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp.
• salt - 1/2 C.L.
• seung grains - 1 tsp.
• vinegar - 1 tbsp.

1. Washing cucumbers to nourish small lumps.
2. Salt the cucumber lumps and leave pickled about half an hour.
3. Chopped onion by half rings, skip garlic through the press, chop chili pepper.
4. Sweese sesame on a dry pan about a minute.
5. Mix all components for refueling: onions, garlic, chili, sesame, soy sauce and vinegar.
6. Add refueling to cucumbers, mix the dish thoroughly and put for 25 minutes in the refrigerator. Then you can serve a piquant dish on the table.

5

Useful cleansing smoothies

There are many recipes smoothie with the addition of cucumber, as it is rich in a fiber and high water content, which helps to actively purify the body. Smoothies to cook very easily - you just need to beat all the ingredients in the blender.

The most delicious and useful combination of products for smoothies:

• for body intoxication - lemon, honey, cucumber and salad leaves;
• to increase immunity - cucumber, ginger, apple, carrots, lemon;
• vitamin smoothie - apple, grapes, cucumber, lemon;
• vitamin E - apple, blueberry, cucumber, spinach, grenade.

6

Aromatic sauce

Such sour cream sauce with the addition of cucumber and spices will be an excellent addition to meat, bird and seafood. Ingredients:

• sour cream - 200 g
• garlic - 5 teeth
• low-headed cucumbers - 50 g
• onions - 20 g
• greens of dill - 10 g
• salt / Pepper - to taste

1. Clear cucumbers from seeds and peel, grate on a shallow grater.
2. Chopping dill, crush garlic and bulb.
3. Mix all the components of the sauce, let us last about half an hour and serve to the main dish or snack.

Cucumber dishes are popular all over the world. On our lands, the cucumbers can be preserved, planted, pickled, in Korea are preparing sharp spicy snacks, in France, cold cucumber soup is served, and green smoothies are popular around the world. Try to prepare such bright and unusual combinations and your culinary book will be replenished with a couple of new recipes with this vegetable.