Cottage Style Cucumber Salad

Submitted by twissis

"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: 20mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 6 4 oz servings
• Serves: 6

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.

Reviews

[Dienia B.]

Love this salad ,i use green onion ,its healthy ,made for pats cookathon ,we miss you

 

[Acerast]

Reviewed for Best of 2008 Tag. This is so healthy and delicious! DH and I decided it would be nice to make to carry to work in our lunches. I used a leek (DH's favorite) but most any kind of onion would be nice here. I can't wait for summer tomatoes - they will be very special in this salad. Wonderful recipe twissis - thanks!

 

[morgainegeiser]

I liked this, sorta reminded me of home. My mom use to make cottage cheese with cucumbers in it all the time and I loved it. Thanks for a great recipe.

 

[BarbryT]

Utterly wonderful! I plan to be eating this all summer. It is thoroughly refreshing. I used an early heirloom tomato and added a stick of diced celery. For more of a meal, I used a full 2 cups of cottage cheese. Delicious.

 

[MsSally]

Mp what a great and simple recipe. I changed this to 1 serving and took this for my lunch. I kept the cottage cheese (fat free for me) seperate and draied off the liquid from the other mixture just like it said. Going into my lunch cookbook. Loved this.