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24 hours 4 servings 24 hours

Quick Pickled Cucumber Salad

This quick salad is a cinch to whip up, keeps for several days in the fridge and is a real crowd-pleaser.

A lot of my friends have fond memories of their grandmother’s chicken soup or their mom’s amazing brisket. Sadly, I don’t have these sacred food memories. My Jewish grandmother (who I love dearly) is not such a great cook. Her kugel is always dried-out, her soup is too fatty and still needs salt, and she serves jarred gefilte fish at holidays, which more closely resembles lint from a dryer than something edible.

But one of the dishes she makes that I do enjoy is her marinated cucumber salad. It’s a dish that she learned to make from her grandmother (my great-great grandmother) who lived most of her life in Russia.

I updated her recipe just a bit, using seedless English cucumbers instead of regular cucumber, and adding a bit of spice with just a pinch of red pepper. I also love serving my salad in mason jars – definitely a modern twist.

This quick salad is a cinch to whip up, keeps for several days in the fridge and is a real crowd-pleaser. My young daughter devours it, and even my father-in-law approves – truly the ultimate compliment.

Ingredients

  • 1 large seedless English cucumber
  • 1 yellow or red onion, thinly sliced
  • 1/2 cup white wine vinegar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 2-3 Tbsp chopped fresh dill
  • 2 Tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • pinch crushed red pepper (optional)

Directions

  1. Slice cucumber 1/4-1/2 inch thick.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together vinegar, water, sugar, salt, pepper, crushed red pepper, and dill.
  3. Add thinly sliced cucumbers and onions to bowl and mix until liquid coats all the cucumbers and onions.
  4. Place salad into container and allow to chill several hours or overnight.

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