Or, try it creamy! Try our Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream. The thinly sliced cucumbers and onions are salty, tangy, and lightly sweet all at once, and totally addicting. This cucumber salad is vegan, plant-based, and gluten-free, so it works for lots of diets too. Keep reading for how to make it!
Ingredients in this vinegar cucumber salad recipe
There are only a few ingredients you need to whip up this cucumber salad with vinegar.
Cucumbers: English cucumbers are preferable if you can find them. They have a sweet flavor, delicate skin, and imperceptible seeds. You can use standard cucumbers as well, but we recommend English if you can find them (also called Persian cucumbers). White onion: The mild flavor of white onion is key in this recipe. You can also combine white onion and red onion as we do in our classic cucumber salad. Fresh dill: Here we’ve used fresh dill to add an herby flair. But it’s not a requirement: making the salad without it still tastes excellent. You can also substitute dried dill if desired. White vinegar, sugar, and kosher salt: These ingredients combine to make a tangy brine for the salad.
How to make cucumber salad with vinegar
This cucumber salad with vinegar is incredibly easy to make: the only hard part is waiting while it marinates in the refrigerator! The trick to mastering this cucumber salad is to slice the onions and cucumbers as thinly as possible. Slicing the cucumber and onion thinly allows the salt to draw out most of the moisture, and gives this salad the most incredible texture. After 1 hour marinating time, you can enjoy your cucumber salad with vinegar salad anytime over the next 7 days. The flavor just gets better with time!
Menus with vinegar cucumber salad
There are so many ways to accessorize this cucumber salad with vinegar! We eat it primarily in as a summer side dish, so naturally we think of meals full of summer produce. Of course you can eat this salad all year long. Here some ideas to get your wheels turning:
Summer Patio Menu
Veggie Burgers, Grilled Shrimp, or Grilled Chicken Mango Skewers or Peach & Burrata Salad Vinegar Cucumber Salad Watermelon Feta Salad or another summer salad Cucumber Water, Hugo Spritz or another summer cocktail
Picnic Menu
Italian Eggplant Sandwich Vinegar Cucumber Salad Crispy Roasted Chickpeas Garlic Herb White Bean Dip and Veggies Fresh peaches or cherries
Want more with cucumbers? See Top Cool Cucumber Recipes.
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