Cucumber Salad With Honey, For Two
From shibattou 12 years ago
- 45 to make
- Serves Two
"Cetriolo al Miele" in Italian. Light and very tasty salad to go with a Romantic Dinner for Two...
Ingredients
- 1/2 "Burpless cucumber", cut in small cubes shopping list
- salt shopping list
- 2 green onions (scallions) finely chopped shopping list
- DRESSING: shopping list
- 2 tsp. honey shopping list
- 2 tsp. fresh lemon juice shopping list
- 2 Tbl. olive oil shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. chopped fresh marjoram or 1/4-tsp. dried shopping list
- freshly ground pepper, to taste shopping list
- GARNISH: (Optional) shopping list
- 2 green onion flowers (see directions) shopping list
How to make it
- Place cucumber in a colander set over a bowl.
- Sprinkle with salt.
- Let stand 30 minutes to drain off excess liquid.
- Rinse with cool water and pat dry with paper towels.
- In a salad bowl, combine drained cucumber and chopped green onions.
- In a small bowl, combine all Dressing ingredients.
- Pour over cucumber and onions, toss to coat.
- Garnish with green-onion flowers.
- To make green-onion flowers, trim top and bottom from a green onion leaving a 3-inch stalk.
- With a sharp knife, shred the white bulb end to within 1-inch of the green top.
- Place in iced water at least 1 hour, or overnight.
- The shredded part will open up into a flower.
The Rating
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sounds lovely :)
keni
in Sweet Home loved it
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This was so good. I did use Mexican oregano rather than marjoram, because I don't grow it, nor do I have any dried...and, I used regular cukes cus I have them coming out my ears. Delicious and a wonderful, quick summer dish. I did the green onion f...more
keni
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