What are the ingredients you can “marry”, pair or mix with CUCUMBER? What flavours work best with cucumber?
This is part of the MIXTURUS project, read all about it here.
There is nothing more refreshing than cucumber in a salad, sometimes hot (treated a bit like a zucchini or courgette) or in a drink.
Now, let’s do some cucumber pairing! Cucumber goes well with:
Citrus
– lemon
– lime
– kaffir lime
– yuzu
Fruits, veggies and berries
– young mango
– papaya
– coconut
– tomato
– corn
– avocado
– radishes
– capsicum
– pineapple
– white grapes
– fresh chilli
– basil
Plants & Herbs
– chives
– shiso (perilla)
– saw tooth coriander
– Vietnamese mint
– parsley
– coriander
– thyme
– onion (especially red)
– garlic
– mint
– dill
– Italian or Provence herb mixes
– violet
– rocket
– baby English spinach
Spices
– chilli
– nigella seeds
– black or white sesame seeds
– poppy seeds
Nuts
– almond
– hazelnut
– walnut
Rhizomes and roots
– ginger
– wasabi
Alcohol
– Pim’s
– Gin
– Vodka
– Sangria
Cheese and dairy
– feta
– yoghurt
– crème fraîche
– quark
– ricotta
– chèvre – goat cheese
– cumin gouda
– gruyère
– butter (and bread)
Meat and poultry
– egg
Fish
– crab
– tuna
– anchovies
Other
– mustard oil
– sesame oil
– olive oil
– rapeseed oil
– vinegar (rice, white wine, red wine, black, Sichuan)
– chocolate
– seaweed
– liquorice
– fermented as kimchi
If you have any more ideas of what goes well with cucumbers, let me know in the comments below :) This page will be updated regularly.
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