Cucumber Sandwiches with a Twist

Name: Cucumber Sandwiches with a Twist
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 40 g/1½ oz watercress, leaves picked off; 40 g/1½ oz watercress, leaves picked off; ¼ tsp paprika; 25 g/1 oz parsley leaves; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 cucumber, peeled and sliced very thinly; ½ tsp sea salt; 2 tbsp pine nuts; 8 slices of white bread; 2 tsp lemon juice; 3 tbsp cream cheese

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

Fiori Di Zucca

By Valentina Harris

Published 2013

About

I cannot help feeling that Beatrice and Rose must have eaten cucumber sandwiches that afternoon at Claridge’s, so I have added a recipe for them – my modern interpretation of this great teatime classic.

Ingredients

1 cucumber, peeled and sliced very thinly
½ tsp sea salt
25 g/

Sandwich
Vegetarian

Method

Sprinkle the cucumber with the salt and leave in a colander to drain for 30 minutes, then rinse and pat dry with kitchen paper.

Put the parsley, oil, lemon juice, cream cheese and pine nuts in a food processor and whizz until just smooth.

Thinly spread 4 slices of the bread with half of the cream cheese mixture. Top each with a layer of watercress leaves and then a layer of cucu