A cool and refreshing spiralized cucumber salad with mango, avocado, and lime. Perfect on a hot summer day for lunch or dinner. Because cucumbers are about 96% water, they are especially effective at promoting hydration and can help you meet your daily fluid needs. There’s no better dish for summer than this cool, easy, and crunchy cucumber salad. It’s just the refreshing bite you crave alongside hot-off-the-grill chicken, hot dogs, and burgers!
Cucumber is a nutritious fruit with a high water content. Eating cucumber may help lower blood sugar, prevent constipation, and support weight loss. To maximize cucumber’s health benefits, eat the peel, too.
What kind of cucumbers are best for cucumber salad?
Seedless (or nearly seedless) cucumbers such as English or Persian varieties are best for this recipe. If you grow cucumbers in your garden, you’re welcome to use them but you’ll probably want to scoop out the seeds and remove the tough, bitter peels.
How to make Cucumber Summer Salad
Serves 2 as a main or 4 as a side dish.
Ingredients
- 1 large cucumber, spiralized
- 1 firm-ripe mango, peeled and cut into ½-inch cubes
- 1 large avocado, peeled, pitted, and diced
- ⅓ cup red onion, finely diced
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 lime, juiced (plus lime wedges for serving)
- ½ cup crumbled goat cheese (about 2 ounces) (optional for vegan)
Directions
- In a large serving bowl combine spiralized cucumber, mango, avocado, red onion, salt, and lime juice. Toss to combine.
- Sprinkle crumbled goat cheese on top of the salad. Lightly toss again to combine.
- Serve immediately.
Some fun cucumber tips:
- Cucumber is one of America’s top five garden vegetables.
- They are part of the Cucurbitaceae family. Other important members of this family include watermelon, muskmelon, pumpkin and squash.
- Though commonly thought to be a vegetable, cucumber is a fruit.
- Native to India, cucumber is another one of our most ancient vegetables.
- Popularity was bolstered considerably when, in 1876, Henry J. Heinz added pickles to the list of products made by the food processing company that bears his name.
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