You know when you plant a cucumber plant or three, and then your seedlings actually grow, so now you have a total of eight cucumber plants? If you aren’t me and only have a cucumber plant this salad will still work for you.
When I go out to the garden with my just turned 3 year old, I pick all the ripe cucumbers, and she helps me find the ones I missed. There are always some hiding, and even after you swear you have picked them all you go out the next day and there is a giant cucumber that was missed.
This salad is super simple and can use a lot of cucumbers, or a little depending on how many you need to use. We had a church picnic, and I used four English cucumbers and two pickling cucumbers. I wanted to make a lot, but you can easily make this for a few people.
Ingredients
- 2-3 English cucumbers, peeled
- 1 red onion, sliced thinly
- 4 Tbspn vinegar or lemon juice
- 2-3 Tbspn Olive oil
- 1 tspn salt, to taste
- Optional: fresh garden herbs- dill, basil
Directions
- Peel and slice the cucumbers thinly, and place in a mixing bowl. Slice the onion thinly and add to the mixing bowl. If you are using an herbs, rough chop the herbs and put them in the bowl as well.
- Drizzle Olive oil over everything, then the sprinkle salt. Drizzling the Olive oil first, gives the salt something to stick to, and then add the vinegar and/or lemon juice
- Mix carefully and taste to see if more salt, oil or vinegar is needed.
- Let it sit for ten minutes or so to soak in the flavors, or serve immediately. This can also be made the night before.
