Cucumber Celery Salad
This cucumber celery salad with green apple and herbs is so light, refreshing and easy to make as a summer BBQ side dish or as picnic food!
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 108kcal
Equipment
- Salad servers
Ingredients
- 1 large English cucumber or Persian cucumbers, seeds removed, finely diced
- 3 celery stalks finely diced
- 1 Granny Smith apple de-cored, finely sliced
- ⅛ cup red onion optional, or white onion
For the mint dill dressing
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ cup dill
- ¼ cup mint leaves
- 1 garlic clove
- pinch salt
- 2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar adjust amount to preference
Instructions
- Slice the cucumber in half, lengthways, and use a small spoon to remove the seeds. Optional: peel the cucumber. Finely dice the cucumber into rounds, finely dice the celery, de-core then dice the apple and, if using, dice the red onion.
- Add the olive oil, apple cider vinegar, dill, mint, garlic, salt and black pepper (optional) to a blender. Blend so you have a herb vinaigrette consistency.
- Combine the cucumber, celery, green apple and red onion in a large bowl and drizzle on half the dressing. Toss to coat the vegetables, taste test, then add more of the dressing to preference.
Notes
- For a more 'zingy' taste, you can add another tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.
- If vinegar doesn't work for you, I suggest to use less olive oil, and add a little more salt to the dressing. A splash of fresh pomegranate juice would add some tart flavor.
- Slice the green apple right before assembling the salad as it will brown if left out.
- The red onion is optional, and to be used if well tolerated. Alternatively, white onion (scores 0 on the SIGHI list) can be used. You may wish to soak in iced water first to reduce the sharper taste.
- Nutritional information is auto-generated and should be understood to be an estimate.
- apple cider vinegar, which scores 1. White distilled vinegar scores 0. Be mindful that some cannot tolerate any form of vinegar.
- garlic, which scores 1.
- dill, which scores 1 with a note,' Small amounts not usually a problem. High salicylate content'.
- red onion is not listed. White onion can be used, which scores 0.
Nutrition
Calories: 108kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Sodium: 5mg | Potassium: 147mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 309IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 0.5mg
