5 Ways To Use Cucumbers (Beyond Pickles and Salad) | Healthy Kitchen Hacks

Quick ideas for using up those cucumbers during the peak growing season!

It’s Healthy Kitchen Hacks Wednesday – the day we share our favorite time-saving kitchen tricks and cooking shortcuts to help you make healthy and delicious meals.

You can see all our Healthy Kitchen Hacks here. To get exclusive healthy kitchen hacks – only available to our email subscribers – sign up HERE.

Now…onto today’s featured Healthy Kitchen Hack:

5 Ways To Use Up Cucumbers

This is my 5th year getting a CSA share (from Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op) and inevitably this time of year, the cucumbers are rolling in week after week. Fortunately, me and the 10-year-old like to eat them raw but I’ve also been taking advantage of Serena’s awesome Quick Pickle Hacks as well as making these Sesame Ginger Pickled Cucumbers as of late.

5 Ways To Use Cucumbers This Summer Beyond Pickles + Salad @tspbasil #healthykitchenhacks Click To Tweet

And if you’ve got a garden full or fridge full of cukes this time of year, too, here are 5 more easy cucumber recipe ideas beyond those pickles (and the typical salad!):

1) Cucumber “Chips”

This is one of my favorite tricks to “fancy up” a cucumber – my mom taught it to me years ago.

• Peel cucumber
• Holding cucumber vertically, run a fork lengthwise down the cucumber. Repeat along each edge of cucumber.
• Bonus spa treatment: Hold close to your face while doing this for a spritz of moisturizing cucumber water each time you run the fork along the edge.

2) Cucumber Topping For Fish

• Use cucumber “chips” over grilled, baked or broiled fish like cod, flounder, tilapia or salmon
• Bonus Hack: How To Broil Fish

3) Cucumber Guacamole

• Cut peeled cucumber in half and scoop out seeds
• Dice and mash into guacamole (using fork or potato masher)
• Serve with cucumber “chips”

4) Cucumber Salsa

• Cut peeled cucumber in half and scoop out seeds
• Dice and mix into fresh salsa

5) Cucumber Fruit Juice

• Add cucumber “chips” to orange, mango or watermelon juice
• Let chill in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving
• Drink juice and munch cucumber slices afterwards

What’s your favorite way to use cucumbers? Let me know in the comments below or over on this Facebook post!