Cucumber - quick and easy recipes - page 11

The Tzatziki sauce is a tasty, light and fresh sauce typical of Greek cuisine, based on yoghurt, cucumber and garlic. It's excellent as an appetizer spread on toast or as a side dish. With this recipe you will prepare it in an easy and quick way!

This maki sushi was invented in the United States, its main characteristic is that it has nori seaweed on the inside and rice on the outside, and it is also known as Uramaki Sushi, which means "rolled upside down".

A recipe from Juice: Recipes for Juicing, Cleansing & Living Well that blends the goodness of kale, spinach, romaine, celery, cucumber, and parsley with bright-tasting lemon and Fuji apple.

A healthy chicken and greens salad recipe. You’ll need to make a batch of Tahini Dressing for tossing.

Fresh shrimp are briefly poached, then halved and allowed to cure in lime and lemon juice. To finish, they’re tossed with onion, serrano chile, cilantro, cucumber, and avocado. This recipe makes for an excellent party appetizer, paired with cocktails such as our easy martini recipe.

For these lavash wraps, falafel combines with tomato, cucumber, onion, and hummus, with a tahini-lemon dressing. Game plan: Make a batch of Classic Falafel before you begin.

Sweet, ripe mango and aromatic fresh dill are the surprises in this easy shrimp salad adapted from Epicurious. It’s an elegant first course for a warm-weather dinner party or a summer luncheon outside on the terrace.

For this ground beef gyros recipe adapted from Food.com, spiced meat is stuffed into pitas with lettuce, tomato, and onion, served with yogurt sauce.

In this easy, refreshing gluten-free tabouli recipe adapted from Whole Foods Market, cooked quinoa is seasoned and mixed with parsley, green onions, grape tomatoes, and cucumber.

“The whole point about cucumber sandwiches is that, unless done really well,” writes author Felicity Cloake (we adapted her recipe from The Guardian), “they’re as dull as the sum of their ingredients. They glory in their own delicacy.” Here, cucumbers, good butter, salt, white pepper, and white bread add up to the perfect tea sandwiches.

Got your hands on some good, fresh oysters? Serve these luscious bivalves in haute style with caviar, mirapoix, and coriander. You’ll need your oyster-shucking tool, of course. And don’t forget to buy a hefty amount of ice or salt to serve this starter on a bed of ice or salt for a cool, crisp, dramatic backdrop.

Usually seen with tuna, poke (poh-keh) is the California craze that’s slowly infusing the rest of the U.S., first in metropolitan cities. It’s a raw, sushi-grade fish salad popular for decades in Hawaii, kind of like ceviche or tartare in other cuisines. The protein is usually marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil, then combined with other ingredients that can vary widely. The name comes from the Hawaiian, “to cut or slice.”

This dish is deceivingly simple, as long as you get the right ingredients, it can be executed for the home cook seamlessly. This salad started as a play on the classic “Cucumber, yogurt and smoked fish” combination, but at dinnertable in NYC, their team adds in a unique Japanese twist: mixing in sesame yogurt, marinated trout roe, and a seaweed (hijiki) dressing.

This psychedelic Mediterranean-inspired salad marries bright, fresh ingredients with sweet, earthy roasted beets and perfectly cooked eggs. It tastes as good as it looks on the plate, and all the ingredients make for good snacks.

Satay sauce, also known as peanut sauce, is the essential accompaniment to Chicken Satay, one of the most famous Thai street food snacks. It is mainly made from curry paste, coconut milk, roasted peanuts, tamarind paste and palm sugar.

Learn how to make fresh spring rolls – fresh vegetables and shrimp wrapped in rice paper, with delicious peanut butter sauce. This recipe for Vietnamese spring rolls (also known as summer rolls) is easy, clean and healthy.