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- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone.
In today's video we're gonna make a delicious creamy
and cucumber and radish salad.
I love this salad and it's really refreshing.
It's a little peppery.
It's a great summertime salad.
I think you're gonna love it, let's get to it.
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Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna take some non-fat Greek yogurt
and we're gonna mix in some freshly chopped dill.
Next we're gonna add in some lemon zest.
Add in some fresh garlic.
Some lemon juice.
A little bit of vinegar.
And some olive oil.
Now I'm just gonna mix this all together.
Now I'm using a non-fat Greek yogurt.
You could use regular yogurt.
You could also use a sour cream if you wanted to.
I'm gonna salt and pepper it to taste right now.
And just get it all stirred in.
Okay, so the next thing is to work in both the cucumbers
and the radishes but there's a little bit
of a gotcha here.
So, this dish is great.
I love cucumbers, I love radishes
but once cucumbers are sliced open,
the longer they sit out,
the more likely they are to release that water.
They're a very watery vegetable, right?
So, if you wanna make this I would,
if you wanna make it ahead of time,
I would keep the dressing
and the vegetables separate
until you're ready to serve it.
You can just put 'em both in the fridge.
When you're ready to serve it, you can mix it all together,
boom, it's ready to go.
You can also mix it together a little bit beforehand,
up to about a couple hours.
I wouldn't, like, let it go longer than that
because if you do that,
the dressing's gonna get really watery
and runny and start to lose its flavor a little bit.
So, just as a side note there.
I'm gonna be adding in English cucumbers.
Now, once again, if you don't have English cucumbers
or access to English cucumbers,
you can use a regular cucumber.
There's a couple little things I would do.
If you're gonna use a conventional cucumber,
I would definitely peel it.
So, English cucumbers, their peels are really thin
and really, really mild.
Conventional cucumbers is a lot more bitter
so I would definitely peel off the skin.
Secondly, I would also remove the seeds.
The reason for that is that those seeds can
also be a little bit bitter
in a conventional cucumber.
Something you don't necessarily have to worry about
with the English ones so.
Since I'm gonna eat this salad pretty darn quickly,
I'm gonna add in everything now.
So the next thing I'm gonna add in are the radishes.
So, if radishes are too peppery for you,
here's a little tip.
You can actually peel them
to reduce that pepperyness.
Most of it, the compounds that make radishes have that bite,
most of it is stored in the skin
so if you peel them that'll reduce it down a little bit,
just a little bit of a trick there.
So I added in our radishes.
Okay, so add in the cucumbers,
add in the radishes.
Once again, if you're making this at home,
what I would do is I would chill the dressing
and the radishes and the cucumbers separately
until you're ready to serve
so that way the salad's nice and cold
and you can just toss it at that moment but,
I'm gonna toss it now.
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Just wanna do it until it's all completely covered
and evenly.
And there we go.
Simple, easy, cucumber radish salad.
So that's all it takes to make this simple
and delicious creamy cucumber and radish salad.
The thing I like about it, it's really refreshing,
that vinegar, the lemon juice,
the Greek yogurt.
It's a great dressing.
Great summer salad.
Any time of the year, actually,
like, if you really want
just a delicious, tasty, light salad.
I'm just gonna go ahead and give it a try.
See ya guys next time.
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