Pair this cool cucumber yogurt salad with your favorite summer recipes. It goes great with lamb, chicken, fish, or as a lunch on its’ own.
Here are some ideal recipes to serve alongside this salad:
- Grilled Lamb Chops
- Grilled Turmeric Chicken
- Melt in Your Mouth Grilled Eggplant
- Sheet Pan Salmon with Asparagus, Lemon, and Dill
- Greek Sheet Pan Chicken with Lemon and Potatoes
- Greek Roasted Lamb and Potatoes
- Grilled Marinated Summer Vegetables
- Instant Pot Fasolakia
- Zucchini Fritters with Feta, Cheddar, Mint, and Parsley
This is a cool refreshing salad that takes only five minutes to prepare. The combination of cucumber and yogurt is really refreshing. In the summer I’m kind of known for making mojitos. Not only do I love fresh mint in mojitos, but I even add it to salads sometimes too lol! Fresh mint is the perfect fresh herb for this salad, but fresh dill would also work.
This cucumber yogurt salad is kind of like a deconstructed tzatziki. If you’ve never had tzatziki before, it’s a cucumber yogurt sauce with dill, garlic, and extra virgin olive oil. It’s a must-have on the table during the summer in Greece. I didn’t include fresh garlic in this salad, however, because I think it’s a little overpowering for what I’m going for here.
Cucumber and yogurt are in a lot of recipes from my two different backgrounds, Greek and Armenian. Like I said, Greeks serve tzatziki with pretty much everything in the summer. Armenians make a very similar yogurt dip to tzatziki called “jujukh”. The main difference is that Armenians use mint instead of dill.
Even though Armenia isn’t on the Mediterranean sea, it has a very similar cuisine. Fruit and vegetables, whole grains, dairy, legumes, and extra virgin olive oil are staples of the Armenian diet. The climate is hot so cool and refreshing yogurt and cucumbers are a great way to stay cool.
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Cucumber Yogurt Salad with Fresh Mint, Lemon, and Olive Oil
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt
- 1/2 English cucumber, washed (leave the peel on)
- 1 tbsp fresh mint, washed and chopped
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Spread yogurt evenly on a plate.
- Slice the cucumber into small pieces. Mound up on top of the yogurt.
- Sprinkle the fresh mint over the cucumber and yogurt.
- Next, sprinkle salt, squeeze lemon juice, and drizzle olive oil onto the cucumbers and yogurt.
- Serve immediately! Enjoy!
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