Cottage Style Cucumber Salad

Here's a healthy, tasty & low-fat variation on a cucumber salad that provides the creamy texture w/o the use of mayo or sour cream. It uses cottage cheese to do that & my DH has come to like it nearly as well as the mayo or sour cream varieties. This works well as the salad part of a dinner meal, a light lunch & even travels well for a picnic or camping trip. Enjoy!

• Ready In: 20 mins
• Serves: 6
• Yields: 6 4 oz servings

Ingredients

• 1  cup cottage cheese (not dry variety)
• 1  medium cucumber (seeds removed & diced)
• 1  large tomatoes (seeds removed & diced)
• 1⁄2 cup leek (or onion of choice, diced)
• 1  teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon seasoning salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper

Directions

1. Prepare & combine all veggie ingredients. Add sugar & then seasoning salt & black pepper to taste.
2. Refrigerate 2 hrs to allow flavours to blend & pour off any watery liquid that has formed before final step.
3. Fold in cottage cheese gently, mix just enough to get a good distributional mix & serve immediately.
4. NOTE: Altho not part of the "basic" recipe, I often add diced avocado for its colour & complimentary flavour.