Sour Cucumber with Fresh Dill Salad Recipe

Sour Cucumber with Fresh Dill Salad Recipe.  This is half pickle, half salad, and totally delicious served with pumpernickel or other coarse, dark, full flavoured bread, as a light meal or an appetizer. Choose smooth-skinned, smallish cucumbers for this recipe as larger ones tend to be less tender, with tough skins and bitter indigestible seeds. If you can only buy a large cucumber, peel if before slicing.

SERVES 4

• 2 small cucumbers, thinly sliced
• 3 onions, thinly sliced
• Pinch of salt
• 5-6 tbsp. cider vinegar
• 2-3 tbsp. chopped fresh dill
• 2 tbsp. caster sugar

• In a large mixing bowl, combine together thinly sliced cucumbers and onions.
• Season the vegetable with salt and toss together until they are thoroughly combined.
• Leave the mixture to stand in a cool place for 5-10 minutes.
• Add the sugar in cider vinegar and 3 tbsp. of water then stir until sugar dissolves.
• Add chopped fresh dill and vinegar mixture to the cucumber and onion mixture.
• Toss all the ingredients together until well combined, then chill in the refrigerator for a few ours, or until ready to serve.