It keeps your cucumber salad from being watery and bland.
Second, I pivot toward simple recipes.
Recipes that are easy to throw together and showcase all that summer produce as the shining star.
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Summer is about long, relaxing daysnot toiling away in a hot kitchen.
I tossed both sets of cucumbers and onions in the same sour cream dressing and refrigerated overnight.
The next day it was very clear which salad was which.
Simply Recipes / Laurel Randolph
The salad I made using fresh cucumbers and onions, skipping the salting step, was incredibly watery.
The sauce wouldnt stick to the cucumbers, and it was a bit bland.
The salted and drained batch, on the other hand, was wonderfully creamy and not watery at all.
Cucumber salad made without the salting trick.Simply Recipes / Laurel Randolph
That being said, I almost never have the time or fridge space.
Cucumber salad made with the salting trick.Simply Recipes / Laurel Randolph
