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Quick pickled cucumber salad with the tangy taste of apple cider vinegar paired with fresh cucumbers and red onions is not just for summer salad sides. Delicious and healthy, this light side dish recipe pairs well with just about every menu you have pl…
Quick pickled cucumber salad with the tangy taste of apple cider vinegar paired with fresh cucumbers and red onions is not just for summer salad sides. Delicious and healthy, this light side dish recipe pairs well with just about every menu you have planned this year. Why you will love making this salad If you...
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This green salad is a fresh, easy, and delicious addition to any meal. With crisp greens, cucumber, and onion tossed in a zesty lemon vinaigrette, it’s light, refreshing, and ready in minutes. Perfect for a quick side dish that tastes as good as it looks!
Ramen Noodle Salad is a potluck favorite! This easy salad has crisp cabbage and ramen noodles tossed together in a simple sweet Asian vinaigrette! Top with sunflower seeds or toasted almonds for a delicious nutty crunch!
These baked beans are the perfect potluck or barbecue side dish! Baked beans, bacon, onions, peppers are mixed in a sweet and delicious sauce creating the perfect depth of flavor!
Delicious poppy seed dressing is creamy and tangy with a touch of honey. It makes the perfect complement for a fresh spinach salad with bacon and crumbled feta.
This vibrant, savory-sweet Watermelon Gazpacho is a celebration of the summer season. Chilled soup? Yes, please!
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Chilled soup?! No way! To this reaction, I say, “Yes way!” If you haven’t tried gazpacho yet, this vibrant, savory-sweet Watermelon Gazpacho is a great place to start. I love the more common tomato gazpacho, but this watermelon gazpacho is super special and celebratory of my favorite season… Summer.
Gazpacho is a chilled soup made from raw blended vegetables (and sometimes fruits, too!). It is widely enjoyed across Spain and Portugal during the hot summer months since it is so cool and refreshing. It was created for everyday workin’ folks to get the most nutrition with the least amount of ingredients possible. So, as far as budget-friendly, healthy, nutrient-packed recipes go, gazpacho is certainly one you’ll want to try!
I added watermelon to mine for a bit of a twist! Watermelon is 92% water, so it makes a great lightly flavored broth that’s so sweet and refreshing.
Here’s what you’ll need to make watermelon gazpacho:
This fresh and fruity watermelon gazpacho lends itself so well to extra fruits and veggies on fridge cleanout day. Other melons, like cantaloupe or honeydew, can add more bulk and sweetness. Some strawberries add a touch of sweet and sour flavor. For veggies, beets, zucchini, or summer squash are all great choices.
Store leftover watermelon gazpacho in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Enjoy chilled for the best flavor.
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Whisk together 3 Tbsp sherry vinegar, 3 Tbsp olive oil, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp pepper.
Add 4.5 cups of watermelon, half of a peeled and diced cucumber, half of a seeded bell pepper, 2 roma tomatoes, and 1/4 of a diced red onion to blender.
Blend until smooth while simultaneously streaming in the vinegar mixture.
Pour gazpacho broth into a large container and stir in 4.5 cups of diced watermelon, the remaining half of a peeled and diced cucumber, half of a seeded and diced bell pepper, 1 seeded and diced roma tomato, 1 seeded and brunoised jalapeno, 1 Tbsp minced fresh basil, and 1 Tbsp minced fresh parsley. Top with an extra drizzle of olive oil and a crank of salt and pepper if you’ve got it! Enjoy cold.
This refreshing watermelon gazpacho is sure to cool you off this summer!
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The best Thousand Island dressing is super creamy & sweet with a bit of tang. Not only does it make for a great dressing on tossed salad, but it’s also an amazing condiment for burgers and even a dip for French fries!
This cucumber salad with vinegar is perfect for barbecues and picnics, a refreshing mix of tangy and salty sliced cucumbers…
This cucumber salad with vinegar is perfect for barbecues and picnics, a refreshing mix of tangy and salty sliced cucumbers and onions.
This cucumber salad with vinegar is everything summer! Did you grow up with the tradition of eating it? It’s perfect for everything from summer potlucks to patio barbecues to picnics. It accessorizes perfectly with everything from salmon to a grilled burger.
The thinly sliced cucumbers and onions are salty, tangy, and lightly sweet all at once, and totally addicting. This cucumber salad is vegan, plant-based, and gluten-free, so it works for lots of diets too. Keep reading for how to make it!
Or, try it creamy! Try our Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream.
There are only a few ingredients you need to whip up this cucumber salad with vinegar.
This cucumber salad with vinegar is incredibly easy to make: the only hard part is waiting while it marinates in the refrigerator! The trick to mastering this cucumber salad is to slice the onions and cucumbers as thinly as possible. Slicing the cucumber and onion thinly allows the salt to draw out most of the moisture, and gives this salad the most incredible texture.
Step 1: Thinly slice the cucumbers and onions. If you have a mandolin, it works well for slicing the cucumbers: but it’s not needed at all: a simple knife will do the trick!
Step 2: Whisk together the white vinegar, sugar, and salt.
Step 3: Once the cucumbers and onions are mixed with the vinegar, salt and sugar (they’re basically quick pickles!), they need to marinate in the refrigerator. Wait 1 hour while time does its magic!
After 1 hour marinating time, you can enjoy your cucumber salad with vinegar salad anytime over the next 7 days. The flavor just gets better with time!
There are so many ways to accessorize this cucumber salad with vinegar! We eat it primarily in as a summer side dish, so naturally we think of meals full of summer produce. Of course you can eat this salad all year long. Here some ideas to get your wheels turning:
Want more with cucumbers? See Top Cool Cucumber Recipes.
This cucumber salad with vinegar recipe is vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, and dairy-free.
Yes! The flavors will meld and develop over time, making it even more delicious.
Stored in an airtight container, cucumber salad can last 7 days in the refrigerator. The cucumbers will soften slightly over time.
White distilled vinegar is a classic choice. We recommend using it if at all possible.
English cucumbers are ideal for their thin skin and fewer seeds, but regular cucumbers work too. Just peel them first if the skin is thick or waxed.
Prep Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes 
Yield: 6 to 8 This cucumber salad with vinegar is perfect for barbecues and picnics, a refreshing mix of tangy and salty sliced cucumbers and onions.
*You can also omit the dill, or use ½ teaspoon dried in place of fresh.
**If you’re pressed for time you can serve immediately, but it’s best after 1 hour marinating time.
Category: Salad
Method: Raw
Cuisine: GermanOutside of this salad, here are a few of our best salad recipes:
Make restaurant-quality Italian dressing at home with this simple recipe! This zesty dressing is full of flavor and perfect for…
Make restaurant-quality Italian dressing at home with this simple recipe! This zesty dressing is full of flavor and perfect for salads, pasta salads, and more.
One of the top salad dressing recipes to make homemade: Italian dressing! This zingy Italian American vinaigrette is a staple that many of us have grown up with. Ever tried making it at home instead of opting for bottled?
As two cookbook authors, we’ve found the key to a great salad is a homemade salad dressing: they don’t have preservatives or added ingredients, are extremely tasty, and are quick to make! This zesty Italian dressing recipe is a fan-favorite recipe from our popular chopped salad, and it’s become our go-to easy vinaigrette for all types of salads.
Jump to the recipe—now.
This Italian dressing recipe is a standby recipe we’ve been making for over a decade. It all started with our famous chopped salad, which is always a hit with friends and family. Every time we serve it, people ask us for the recipe! Over the years, readers have constantly given us feedback they love it to. Here’s what we love about this recipe:
Turns out, Italian dressing is actually an Italian American creation, not a traditional Italian food! It’s a vinaigrette type dressing used in American and Canadian cuisine. In Italy, salads are dressed with olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice and salt at the table, not typically with a pre-mixed salad dressing. Italian dressing is an American creation that approximates the flavors and herbs in Italian food, like olive oil, garlic, basil, oregano and thyme.
The ingredients you’ll need for this Italian dressing are:
This homemade Italian dressing recipe is incredibly simple. The flavor is zesty and bright, full of garlic, white wine vinegar, maple syrup or sugar, Dijon mustard, and olive oil. Add to that a mix of Italian-style dried herbs: basil, thyme, and oregano, which bring in earthy flair. To make an emulsion for this homemade Italian salad dressing recipe, simply whisk it by hand. Here are a few tips:
This homemade Italian dressing recipe is perfect on any type of salad that you throw together! We’ve made it for years and have lots of readers who use it as a go-to salad dressing. It works well on many types of salad recipes, like a chopped salad, kale salad, or any green salad with flavors that would go with an Italian-style vinaigrette. Here are a few ideas of how to use it:
How would you serve this Italian salad dressing recipe? Let us know in the comments below!
Homemade dressings have big, bold flavor and are easy to whip up! In fact, we rarely buy bottled dressing. Outside of this homemade Italian dressing recipe, here are a few of our other favorite salad dressing recipes:
Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, and dairy-free.
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Yield: About ½ cup This zesty homemade Italian dressing recipe is full of flavor and easy to make at home! This one will become a go-to on first taste.
Category: Salad DressingMethod: WhiskedCuisine: AmericanKeywords: Italian dressing, Italian dressing recipe, Homemade italian dressing, How to make italian dressing,
This easy balsamic vinaigrette recipe uses only 4 ingredients and whips up in minutes! With its balance of sweet, tangy,…
This easy balsamic vinaigrette recipe uses only 4 ingredients and whips up in minutes! With its balance of sweet, tangy, and savory, it will become your go-to salad dressing. Ditch store bought dressing for good!
Looking for a simple salad dressing to make at home? There’s really nothing better than this balsamic vinaigrette recipe. It’s creamy, tangy, a little bit sweet, and has that “something” that keeps you coming back for another bite. It’s extremely versatile, perfect on everything from a classic strawberry salad to a simple green salad. It has a short ingredient list and it comes together in less than 5 minutes. So why ever buy it again?
This balsamic vinaigrette recipe is very simple to whip up, especially because you might already have the ingredients on hand in your pantry. For this recipe you’ll need:
This balsamic vinaigrette recipe is incredibly simple. The flavor is zesty and bright, tangy from the vinegar, balanced with a touch of maple syrup. Then it’s mixed together with extra virgin olive oil to form a creamy emulsion. We’ve also added a touch of Dijon mustard to give a little more zing and to help the creamy dressing stay emulsified. Here’s how to make this balsamic vinaigrette:
There are lots of types of balsamic vinegar at the store, and they vary widely in quality. There are three categories of balsamic vinegar:
A good rule of thumb for buying a good balsamic: look for a mid-priced bottle. Price is typically indicative of quality!
This balsamic vinaigrette recipe is perfect on any type of salad that you throw together, especially salads with a sweet element like apples, berries, or sweet potatoes! Here are a few ideas of how to use it:
How would you serve this balsamic vinaigrette recipe? Let us know in the comments below!
There are so many delicious salad dressing recipes to try! After this homemade balsamic vinaigrette recipe, here some favorites to try:
Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, and dairy-free.
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Yield: About 11 tablespoons This easy balsamic vinaigrette recipe uses only 4 ingredients (plus salt) and whips up in minutes! With its balance of sweet, tangy, and savory, it will become your go-to salad dressing. Ditch store bought dressing for good!
Taste, and if you prefer a sweeter balsamic vinaigrette, you can add up to 1 tablespoon additional maple syrup.
Category: Salad DressingMethod: WhiskedCuisine: AmericanKeywords: Balsamic vinaigrette recipe, Balsamic vinaigrette dressing, How to make balsamic vinaigrette
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