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How to prepare a cucumber

✅ The essentials

The cucumber is eaten raw, in a salad, in sticks or in a yogurt sauce. It is full of water: for a salad that does not swim, you salt it and let it drain for twenty minutes.

🛒 Choosing it

Firm from end to end, green, heavy. A cucumber that is soft at the ends is old.

🧼 Preparing it

Wash it. Peel it if the skin is waxed or thick, otherwise it is eaten. For a yogurt sauce, cut it in half and remove the seeds with a spoon.

🔪 Cutting it for the dish

  • In thin rounds, for a salad.
  • In sticks, for raw vegetables.
  • In small dice, for a yogurt sauce or a Greek salad.

⏱️ How long it takes

One minute.

🧊 Storing it

In the fridge, whole, a week. Cut, the cut end covered with film, two or three days.

🍽️ Make it tonight

Cucumber rounds salted and drained for twenty minutes, with the page "Homemade vinaigrette".

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