Five-Minute Sweet-and-Sour Cucumber Salad with Dill

Name: Five-Minute Sweet-and-Sour Cucumber Salad with Dill
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Europe
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons distilled white vinegar; 1 small or ½ medium sweet white onion (like a Maui or Vidalia); 1 European or 2 American cucumbers; Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste; 1 tablespoon sugar, or to taste; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
5 min

Appears in

Healthy Jewish Cooking

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2000

About

Embarrassingly easy to make, this crisp, tart, tangy salad is an Eastern European Jewish staple. It takes about 5 minutes to prepare, which makes it a perennial favorite at my house.

Ingredients

1 European or 2 American cucumbers
1 small or ½ medium sweet white onion (like a Maui or Vidalia)
3

Europe
Raw
Gluten-free
Vegan
Eastern Europe

Method

Wash the cucumber. Partially remove the peel in lengthwise strips, using a vegetable peeler, leaving a little skin between each strip. (This gives you pretty green stripes on the cucumber slices.) Thinly slice the cucumber widthwise. Thinly slice the onion and break into rings.
Place the vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper in a bowl and whisk until the su