Name: Cucumber Salad (Salata So Krastavitsi)
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Macedonian
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon kosher salt; ½ cup (75 g) grated feta cheese; ½ tablespoon red wine vinegar; 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil; ¼ cup (6 g) fresh mint, finely chopped; 6 Persian cucumbers, skin peeled in stripes, sliced into ¼-inch (6 mm) rounds; ½ small red onion, finely sliced; 1 English cucumber, skin peeled in stripes, sliced into ¼-inch (6 mm) rounds

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Macedonia

By Katerina Nitsou

Published 2021

About

I love using a combination of cucumber varieties to give this salad a bit of dimension and texture. You can really use any kind you like, but if you’re using anything other than English or Persian cucumbers, I would recommend removing the seeds before slicing, since these can be quite bitter.

Ingredients

1 English cucumber, skin peeled in stripes, sliced into ¼-inch (6 mm) rounds
6 Persian cucumbers, skin peeled in stripes, sliced into ¼-inch (6 mm) rounds
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