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Refreshing Cucumber Recipes

If your garden is overflowing with cucumbers or you just can’t resist grabbing a few at the farmers market, this is the place for you. Cucumbers are crisp, cooling, and super versatile.

Cucumbers are perfect for everything from salads to snacks to Southern-style pickles. Whether you’re trying to use up a bumper crop or just love that refreshing crunch, you’ll find plenty of ideas here to keep cucumbers on the menu all season long.

Easy & Refreshing Cucumber Recipes

These recipes highlight cucumbers in all their hydrating glory. Raw, quick-pickled, and everything in between.

Southern Cucumber Salad – A tangy vinegar-based salad with red onions, perfect for potlucks or BBQs. I love to use thinly sliced cucumbers in this salad recipe. It’s like a giant bowl of pickles.
Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad – A chilled, sour cream-based salad that’s great with grilled meats.
Quick Refrigerator Pickles – No canning required! Just a simple brine and a jar.
Cucumber Tomato Salad – Toss sliced cherry tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers with Italian dressing or olive oil and red wine vinegar and fresh basil.
Spicy Cucumber Salad – An Asian Inspired cucumber salad made with chili oil, garlic, rice wine vinegar, and toasted sesame oil. It’s topped with sesame seeds and is a perfect side to serve with air fryer salmon and white rice. I love to use Persian cucumbers to make this salad.
Tzatziki Sauce – A creamy Greek-inspired dip with shredded cucumber, garlic, and fresh dill.
Quick Korean Pickles (Oi Muchim) – Lightly spicy, vinegary cucumber side dish with garlic and gochugaru.

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Ideas for Using Cucumbers

As a crunchy side for buttermilk fried chicken tenders or pulled pork sandwiches.
Layered into wraps, pitas, or pasta salad for extra freshness.
Shredded into tzatziki sauce or other yogurt-based dips.
Sliced and chilled in a pitcher of water for a spa-style drink or mocktail.