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6 Comments A super easy and simple salad is this lettuce and cucumber salad. I like to serve mine with parmesan shavings or you can add extra’s like parmesan shavings, tomatoes or crunchy bacon bits.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy – it has just a few simple ingredients and is quick to adjust to your liking. It’s the ultimate flexible salad!
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Lettuce And Cucumber Salad
Back in the day when we would eat lettuce at home, it would always be a regular butter cup lettuce. That was before the time when you all of a sudden could buy lettuce in a bag and before the time that everyone started eating iceberg lettuce. I don’t like iceberg lettuce.
It is watery and uninteresting in taste. You can make me happy with arugula, but also with virtually all other types of lettuce out there. And thank goodness they are appearing in more and more varieties these days.
Gone are the days of iceberg lettuce!
Recipe Ingredients
- Lettuce – you can use whatever kind of lettuce you like. I went with buttercup lettuce as I love the taste of it, but lamb’s lettuce, curly lettuce or whatever else will do as well
- Cucumber – you can chop the cucumber in cubes or turn them into ribbons as I did.
- Parmesan – I love adding some cheese to salads, like this gorgonzola salad as well. Parmesan works best here.
How To Make The Lettuce And Cucumber Salad
- Step 1: Chop all the vegetables and clean them. Not necessarily in that order.
- Step 2: Make the dressing by mixing the ingredients and adjust for taste with salt and pepper
- Step 3: Mix it all together and serve right away
Questions asked about the lettuce and cucumber salad
No the butter cup lettuce is not strong enough to withstand heat or transportation. Make it fresh and eat it right away?
Yes you can. If you must you can use iceberg lettuce or lamb’s lettuce. I wouldn’t use arugula as that can be a bit too strong for this simple salad. But you could use it in a mix of different lettuce types.
- Tomatoes – A perfect addition to the salad would be tomatoes. I love using cherry tomatoes in all sort of different colors. That would give the salad a bit of color and make it even more delicious.
- Bacon – Anything is better with bacon, right? This lettuce and cucumber salad will thank you for it. You can bake small bacon bits and add to the salad as a sprinkling. You can even put it to the side if you’re serving it for guests.
- Croutons – Croutons would be delicious here too. If I make croutons I use stale bread, cut it in cubes and place it in a bowl. I sprinkle olive oil over the bowl and grated parmesan. Toss it until most of the bread is covered with the oil and parmesan mixture and than heat a frying pan with enough oil. The bread will soak some of it up but that’s what you want to make it golden brown and crispy. Leave to drain on a bit of kitchen paper and serve on top of the salad.
- Chicken – I love adding chicken to this salad as well. You can cook the chicken and use it shredded or you can bake the chicken golden brown and add it once it is cooled down a bit.
- Salmon – Equally well suited for the salad is salmon. That can be either smoked salmon or you can use a salmon fillet which you cooked and flaked over the salad. Recently we have warm smoked salmon here which you can buy ready made. Super delicious.
- Extra vegetables – Of course there are plenty of other vegetables you can add to this salad as well. Think about adding some grated carrots or grated zucchini. You can add some green peas, sweet potato cubes and basically most vegetables you’d normally use for a salad.
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Lettuce And Cucumber Salad With Lemon Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 buttercup lettuce leaves separated
- 1 cucumber thinly sliced lengthwise
- 70 gr parmesan shaved
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1/2 tsp caster sugar
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
How to make the lettuce and cucumber salad
- Chop and clean the vegetables
- To make the lemon dressing, place the lemon juice, oil, mustard and sugar in a bowl, sprinkle with salt and pepper and mix to combine. Set aside.
- Place the lettuce, cucumber and parmesan in a bowl, drizzle with the lemon dressing and toss to combine.
Notes
- You cannot store the salad as the buttercup lettuce will wilt and the flavors are best enjoyed fresh
- You could leave out the parmesan if you didn’t want to use it but it does give the salad it’s ultimate taste so I would go for another salad if you don’t want to use parmesan
Nutrition Information per portion:
Disclaimer:
The nutritional values above are calculated per portion. The details are based on standard nutritional tables and do not constitute a professional nutritional advice.
I want more good recipes.
does anyone know how many the salad feeds i need to know by tomorrow night at 6
That’s what it says on top of the recipe: as a sidedish for 4
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I love salads this time of year!
I just moved to Chicago from Utah and I’m not feeling this humidity…add an oven to that and I’m not sure if I could handle it!
And I loved the shaved cucmbers!!
This is on my menu this week! Thanks so much!
-Heidi
Gorgeous! I love salads and the simplicity of this one is perfection. Just bought some lively blue cheese and that would be a great drizzle over this as an alternative – you have me plotting.
🙂
V
I love salads in the summertime and this one is just beautiful to look at.