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Cucumber Recipes

20 recipes with cucumber for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

20 recipes

🇬🇷GreeceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Gyro

Thin-sliced seasoned pork roasted until the edges turn crisp and golden, served in warm pita with tzatziki, tomato, and onion. The restaurant gyros is cooked on a vertical rotisserie — meat stacked in layers, spinning slowly, the outer crust shaved off in strips as it crisps. At home, the closest result comes from threading marinated pork pieces onto a vertical skewer propped over an onion half in a roasting pan, then finishing under the grill. The marinade is oregano, paprika, cumin, garlic, vinegar, and olive oil. The tzatziki is made from scratch and is not optional.

90 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Bibim Guksu (Korean Spicy Cold Noodles)

Bibim guksu is the Korean summer dish that takes fifteen minutes and requires almost no cooking. Thin wheat noodles, shocked in ice water until they bounce back against your teeth, coated in a gochujang sauce that is simultaneously hot, sour, sweet, and faintly fermented. Topped with kimchi, cucumber, and a soft-boiled egg. The word bibim means mixed — everything goes in the bowl and you toss it with your hands.

15 min380 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy⚡Quick💪High protein

Jjajangmyeon (Korean Black Bean Noodles with Pork and Vegetables)

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Jjajangmyeon (Korean Black Bean Noodles with Pork and Vegetables)

Jjajangmyeon is a Korean-Chinese noodle dish of thick chewy wheat noodles topped with a glossy black sauce of fried chunjang (Korean fermented black soybean paste), pork belly, onions, potato, zucchini, and cabbage. The dish was developed in 1905 by Chinese immigrants at the Gonghwachun restaurant in Incheon's Chinatown, adapted from Beijing zha jiang mian to suit Korean tastes — sweeter, with caramelized chunjang and starchier vegetables. Today it is one of Korea's national comfort foods, sold in every neighbourhood and traditionally eaten on Black Day (April 14) by single people who got no Valentine's gift. Active work is 35 minutes, no long simmer needed. Serves 4 with 200 g noodles and 250 ml sauce per portion, topped with julienned cucumber for fresh contrast.

35 min720 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Panzanella (Tuscan Bread and Tomato Salad)

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Salads

Panzanella (Tuscan Bread and Tomato Salad)

Panzanella is a classic Tuscan salad of stale bread and ripe summer tomatoes, dressed with olive oil and red wine vinegar, with red onion and basil. It is a summer dish of central Italy (Tuscany and around), and a clear example of cucina povera — a way to use up stale bread, like its relatives Pappa al pomodoro and Ribollita. The name comes from pane (bread) and zanella (a deep bowl), reflecting its humble roots, and the dish goes back to the Middle Ages and the Tuscan countryside. A curious fact: the first panzanella had no tomatoes at all — it was made with bread, onion, and purslane, and the tomato only became the central ingredient in the 20th century. Unlike ordinary salads, panzanella is built on bread as its base: pieces of stale bread soak up the tomato juice, olive oil, and vinegar, turning soft but springy — never soggy when made correctly. The technical keys: stale bread, not fresh; soak and wring it out rather than toasting it (the authentic Tuscan way); ripe seasonal tomatoes whose juice becomes part of the dressing; red wine vinegar, not balsamic; and a 15-30 minute rest so the flavors come together. Served at room temperature as an antipasto or a light summer meal, it is summer on a plate — and best eaten the same day it is made.

30 min280 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan⚡Quick

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Crab Stick Salad

A simple Russian salad of diced crab sticks and sweet corn with hard-boiled eggs, cooled rice, and fresh cucumber, bound with a light mayonnaise dressing. It is folded gently, chilled, and finished with green onion and dill, a New Year favourite.

30 min250 kcal6 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Salads

Radish and Sour Cream Salad

A classic Russian spring salad of thinly sliced radishes, fresh cucumber, and green onion with hard-boiled egg, dressed generously with cold sour cream and fresh dill. It comes together in minutes and is served right away while the vegetables stay crisp.

15 min110 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Hainanese Chicken Rice (Singapore-Style)

🇸🇬SingaporeAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Hainanese Chicken Rice (Singapore-Style)

Hainanese chicken rice is one of Singapore's national dishes, deceptively simple and quietly luxurious. A whole chicken is gently poached below a simmer until silky and just cooked, then plunged into ice for a jelly-set skin. The rice is fried in chicken fat with garlic and ginger and cooked in the poaching broth, so every grain is savoury and glossy. It's served with a trio of sauces — fiery chili-lime, ginger-scallion oil, and dark sweet soy — and a bowl of the clear broth.

80 min590 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

🇲🇾MalaysiaMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Nasi Lemak (Malaysian Coconut Rice)

Nasi lemak is Malaysia's national dish — fragrant coconut rice cooked with pandan, ringed by a spicy-sweet sambal, crisp fried anchovies, roasted peanuts, cucumber, and a boiled egg. Each element plays a role: creamy rice, fiery sambal, salty crunch, cooling cucumber. Traditionally wrapped in banana leaf and eaten for breakfast at roadside stalls, it's a whole plate of contrasts built around one bowl of rich, aromatic rice.

60 min620 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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