Cucumber salad is a very tasty side dish. Sometimes, however, cucumbers become rubbery in the salad, but why? Unfortunately, not everyone can tolerate cucumber salad; do you have to give it up? Here we have collected a few household tips for cucumber salad:
Cucumbers stay crunchy longer in the salad
Cucumbers do not tolerate salt well. If you salt the cucumber salad too long before serving, the cucumbers lose water. Therefore, only salt the cucumbers shortly before serving, then they will be crunchier.
Cucumbers crunchy again
Unfortunately, it often happens to me that I forget the vegetables in the vegetable drawer: but for cucumbers, there is a tip to make them crunchy again: Put the cucumber in a bowl of cold water and place the bowl in the fridge for 1-2 hours. Now it is like freshly bought again!
Cucumber salad becomes more digestible
To make the To make cucumber salad more digestible, scald the peeled cucumber with boiling water, rinse with cold water and only then slice it. A pinch of baking soda also makes the salad easy to digest. Bloating and burping are prevented if you add a teaspoon of mustard to the salad dressing.
Photo by Janine, meinhaushalt.at
Also read: Tips for leaf lettuce
