Lemon Cucumber Salad


Ingredients:
half dozen mini cucumbers, sliced into 1/4 inch rounds
1 pocket-sized onion, halved together with thinly sliced
1 lemon, thinly sliced
1 bay leaf

dressing:
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 loving cup 10% Ättiksprit (Swedish white vinegar)
1/2 loving cup water
1 tablespoon dark peppercorns
1 1/2 tablespoons yellowish mustard seed
1 1/2 tablespoons dill seed
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar


Directions:
Toss together the salad ingredients inward a pocket-sized nonreactive bowl or jar. Set aside. In a minute bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients until the tabular array salt together with carbohydrate dissolve. Pour over the salad together with allow to sit down at to the lowest degree iii hours prior to serving.


Note: If yous continue this equally good long inward the fridge, you'll abide by it has turned into pickles! Which are also tasty, of course!



My thoughts:
I dear cucumber salad inward the warmer months because yous tin become far ahead of fourth dimension together with it is refreshing. Plus it reminds me of pickles, which is roughly other big dear of mine. I used roughly Swedish vinegar inward the recipe, which is similar regular white vinegar merely much to a greater extent than acidic. It made the lemon rind very, rattling soft together with completely infused the cucumber inward alone iii hours. As for the flavour of the dish? Very bright, rattling lemon-y together with crisp. Perfect for serving amongst whatsoever summery meal.


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