30+ Cucumber Recipes

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Cucumbers are so crispy and good. There are so many ways you can use them. Check out these cucumber recipes for tons of ideas for ways to use your excess cucumbers from the garden.

When you grow cucumbers in the garden, sometimes you can get overrun with them all at once. Homegrown cucumbers taste amazing. They are much different than those tough, bitter cucumbers at the store. But when you grow too many at once, It’s hard to preserve cucumbers unless you pickle them, so here are some favorite ways to use them in recipes.

Cucumbers are super healthy. They are full of vitamins and minerals. They also have fiber and antioxidants. Their skins are very healthy as well. If you buy store-bought ones with wax on the skins, it’s better to peel them because the pesticides used on the fruit are under that wax and it’s really hard to remove it.

But if they are unwaxed or homegrown, those skins are tasty and healthy for you, so eat them if you like them. Cucumbers are also very hydrating since they are a large percentage water. That juice has electrolytes as well that keep your body healthy.

Of course, you can make pickles out of cucumbers. Check out the recipe I use with the kids.

My kids LOVE a marinated cucumber salad recipe that I can’t make fast enough for them. There are lots of salads you can make with cucumbers. Some are creamy and some are vinegary. I love it and love them even more in this cucumber tomato salad recipe. Yummy!

One of my favorite salads is this zesty avocado and cucumber salad. You’re going to be addicted!