Mediterranean Cucumber Salad
This easy cucumber salad is an easy and flavorful side dish your whole family will love. Made with fresh cucumbers, radishes, and a flavorful dressing!
I love serving cucumber salad with a meal! Not only does it add lovely color, texture, and flavor to a plate, but it’s such a quick and simple recipe to make! Kids love them, and this is a great kid friendly addition to dinner.
These Mediterranean cucumber salad is made with fresh cucumbers, thin shallots, and sliced radishes for maximum flavor, color, and crunch. Dressed with a simple vinaigrette with lemon juice, dill, and oregano, it’s got so much flavor, but isn’t overpowering. THis is the kind of recipe you can have again and again and still love it!
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How to make this cucumber salad
This cucumber recipe is very simple to make. For the full set of directions, please make sure you scroll down to the recipe card below.
- Wash and dry the cucumbers, shallot, and radishes.
- Slice the veggies into thin strips.
- Remove the dill fronds from the stems and chop the fronds into small pieces.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk together the olive oil, white wine vinegar, lemon juice, dried oregano, salt and pepper.
- Add the sliced cucumbers, shallots, radishes, and dill to the bowl and toss to combine.
Storage Information
This salad does great when it sits in the fridge for a little bit to let the flavors come together. But the longer it sits, the softer the cucumbers and radishes become, so they lose their snappy bite to them.
They are best when eaten the same day they are made, but they can sit in the fridge for a few hours and still be great.
Store these cucumbers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days.
How to serve this to your family
These cucumbers are great when served as a side dish. They add awesome flavor and color to a plate, as well as a crispy texture! Try serving them with:
How to make this kid friendly
Mediterranean cucumber salad is a great kid friendly recipe to serve with your meal. Not only does it add fun colors to your plate, but it also adds a different texture, and great flavors. If your kids aren’t sure about it, try changing your dinner conversations and getting them involved in the kitchen.
Dinner conversations with kids
This cucumber salad recipe is a great place for dinner conversations! Try these conversation starters:
- What colors do you see in these cucumbers?
- How do the cucumbers add to how our whole plate looks?
- Smell the cucumber salad. What does its smell remind you of? Do we eat anything else that smells similar?
- What is the texture like? Is it crunchy, soft, chewy?
Read more about how to explore the sense of taste with your kids.
Kids in the kitchen: How your kids can help you cook
This is a great recipe to introduce your kids to helping in the kitchen! Not only is it a simple recipe they can help with, but it helps teach them about flavors from around the world and helps them be more open to trying new foods.
This is a great recipe for practicing knife skills, as well as measuring and mixing.
- Kids aged 1-3 can help you pick the dill fronds off the stems, measure and mix the dressing.
- Kids aged 4-6 can do everything above plus help you slice the cucumbers and chop the dill .
- Kids aged 7-10+ can help you do everything above, plus help you slice the shallot and radishes.
*Please note that these recommendations are generalized, and to please use your personal discretion with your child’s skill level. And always, always supervise! Read more about how to have your children help you in the kitchen.
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Mediterranean Cucumber Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 english cucumbers sliced thin
- 1 shallot sliced thin
- 4-6 radishes tops removed and sliced thin
- ¼ cup chopped fresh dill
- 3 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 Tablespoons white wine vinegar
- juice 1/2 lemon
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Wash and dry the cucumbers, shallot, and radishes.
- Slice the veggies into thin strips.
- Remove the dill fronds from the stems and chop the fronds into small pieces.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk together the olive oil, white wine vinegar, lemon juice, dried oregano, salt and pepper.
- Add the sliced cucumbers, shallots, radishes, and dill to the bowl and toss to combine.
I Just tried this recipe and my family loved it. It was so easy and the flavors were fantastic.