LAURA LEE ALICE
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Serves 4 generously
Buttermilk Cucumber Salad
Another refreshing cucumber salad recipe for you. It goes together quickly and easily. If you have picky
eaters, don't tell them it contains yogurt and buttermilk. I like using the small cucumbers because they
are tender.
Ingredients
• 3 small cucumbers, thinly sliced*
• 1 small onion, skin removed and thinly sliced
• Sea salt
• Black pepper
• ¼ cup whole Greek yogurt
• ¼ cup buttermilk
• 1 Tbsp fresh dill, chopped
Instructions
1. Place the cucumber and onion in a small bowl;sprinkle
with ½ teasponn sea salt and toss; let sit in bowl for 5 minutes.
Transfer to a colander and let drain for 45 minutes.
2. In the meantime, in a medium bowl stir together the yogurt
and buttermilk.
3. Drain the cucumber mixture (do not rinse) and add to the
yogurt mixture; stir, then add salt and pepper to taste.
Chill until needed.
*Pull a fork along length of cucumber before slicing; makes an
interesting design.
KEYWORDS
cucumber salad, cucumber, buttermilk
Recipes are like stories; they can change from person to person. Everyone has their idea of how a recipe should be, even
though it may have changed from the original. We will never know the true author of the original recipe, regardless of
what some may say. That's why I go back and look through the oldest cookbooks that I can find. Sometimes it's not the
recipe in the books that I find, but the tiny pieces of handwritten recipes and newspaper articles that are stuck within
the pages. That's where the real story is, finding those simple Southern recipes. -Mac