Salade De Concombres
A cool cucumber salad recipe is easy and a lovely addition to your dinner table. The green of the cucumbers is so refreshing and a tasty, nutritious salad to include with your appetizers. What could be simpler than this beautiful dish of cool summer cucumbers? Add these delicious salads for a collection of salads that complement each other Easy Red Cabbage Salad, Bacon Salad For A Flavorful Twist, and French Potato Salad Recipe With Tarragon Vinaigrette Dressing.
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❤️Why You Will Love This French Salad
- It will give your table a wonderful display of color for special occasions or everyday meals.
- Another quick and easy salad recipe to add to your favorite appetizers or starters for all your family and friends.
- It is usually presented in an individual dish, but I have often put it with the tomato salad as the colors of the salads together are so pretty and appetizing.
🤔What To Serve With This Recipe?
- Serve a protein: Fish like Homemade Fish Balls, Sauteed Scallops
- Combine protein with rice or pasta: Chicken Chow Mein,
🥗Other Types Of Salads To Enjoy
If you are looking for a salad that offers a complete meal, you will also love Easy Lyonnaise Salad, Easy Rotisserie Chicken Salad Recipe, and Delightful French Lentil Salad Recipe!
Your cucumber salad is now ready to serve. For more directions on making salads, visit our types of salad recipes.
❔FAQ
English or Persian cucumbers are often chosen for salads. They are specifically grown to have few or no seeds, which are more tender when present, easier to chew, and have thin skins, which make them more edible as well.
One can choose whatever suits their taste. But typically, this salad is not combined with vegetables or fruit that have strong flavors, as they will take over the taste of the cucumber. Most often, a mild onion, parsley, mint, or dill, or a combination of herbs and vinegar will be mixed together to make cucumber salad.
Proteins such as chicken, steak, fish of all kinds, shrimp, crab, and other seafood. Rice dishes, delicate salads like mesclun salad, and other greens pair well.
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📖 Recipe
Cucumber Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 whole cucumber Use an English cucumber and you won't have to peel it.
- 1 tablespoon parsley freshly chopped
- salt
- Vinaigrette dressing - here is a recipe for French Dressing
Instructions
- The cucumber is usually peeled in France, but you can leave the peel on if you prefer.
- Slice the cucumber into the thinnest slices you can. A mandolin is used for this in France, or you can use the wonderful attachments you now have with your food processors.
- Place the sliced cucumber on a large plate and sprinkle with salt.
- Place another plate on top of them and put a weight on top of this.
- Leave for about an hour.
- Drain off the liquid and wash the cucumber in a sieve under cold running water, then dry it.
- Sprinkle with parsley and the vinaigrette.
Notes
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