5 SURPISING Cucumber Dishes From Around the World

Thank you for having me in the video and allowing me to share my grandmas recipe! :)

as a polish person i also wanted to throw in Ogórkowa zupa. a hot polish pickle soup which is also pretty good.

The young man from India spoke with such love of the cucumber pancake dish and the fond memories he had of his grandmother that it moved me so much. That alone makes me want to eat it!😊

It's amazing how similar the Indonesian cucumber drink is to Mexican agua fresca de pepino y limón. Some people even like it with chia seeds that get jelly-like. It's almost the exact same drink. I'm sure I'll like the Indonesian cucumber drink. Yum

Now I want an episode focused on radish. I love them raw, could eat them by the bucketful, but recently I tried a recipe that cooked them and was blown away

For the german dish we use „Schmorgurken“, a special kind of cucumber that you don‘t eat raw. It is different to the cucumber that you can eat whole and also has a stronger taste. You have to peel it, remove the seeds and cut off the ends till you taste no bitterness in the cut off pieces. I didn‘t know it the first time I cooked the dish and some bitter pieces landed in my pot. The whole dish was ruined, it was bitter as bile 😵‍💫😂

I am so glad to see Kakdiche Dhirde here! Brought me back some good memories, and now I feel like I need to make one. I grew up in Maharashtra, where my mom used to make this often, but now I live in the UK (and am an adult, so need to take the responsibility of feeding myself, hah), and I didn't know that I missed this dish so much until now! It is one of those regular household dishes that you wouldn't even find in restaurants in India (leave alone elsewhere). Brb while I get myself an arm workout of grating cucumbers or kakdi (:

I’m Canadian and my grandmas side of the family is from the Ukraine and I grew up with a version of Mizeria (we just called it cucumber salad though) where it was thinly cut cucumbers, lemon juice, dill, salt & pepper and sour cream. So good, we still make it to this day in the summer with grilled meat and vegetables!

I love cucumber salad with soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar and sesame seeds. Great with Kimchi!

Hey Beryl! I love cucumber and have my own cold cucumber soup I wanted to share. I could live on it I think, it's so refreshing & yummy. So easy. All you need to do is blend until smooth 1 peeled cucumber, 3 scallions, a large dollop of sour cream (you could do yogurt or kefir), salt, tabasco, lemon juice, a can of cream of mushroom soup (cream of celery also works), can of cold water. Chill for a bit, then enjoy. I will sometimes garnish with a little ume shiso flakes (Yukari) or sumac which both add a lemony kind of tang before serving.

Hi Beryl. I’m from India. We make cucumber khichdi( Daal and rice together) Just 5 min before the khichdi is cooked fully. We add in the grated cucumber. The fresh scent of the cucumber takes the khichdi to another level.

The es timun serut is deffo one of my favorite dessert-beverages of all time! Super fresh, super thirst-quenching 🍾🍾 also, adding gin is a smart lil' twist! 😂

I grow a cucumber variety called Poona Kheera from Poona, India. It's a yellow-skinned variety that matures to a crackled brown skin with bright white flesh (it's absolutely gorgeous imo). The skin is tougher than many cucumbers, but the flesh is so sweet and never gets a hint of bitterness, even if I miss one and it gets kind of big. I think it would be really great in some of these recipes.

One of my favourite cucumber salads - smashed up pieces of cucumber, tossed in rice vinegar, sugar, sesame oil and fresh chilli topped with crushed peanuts and coriander

My sister and I make "acki salad" named after the lady who tought us to make it. Its thinly sliced English cucumbers and carrots salted and then wrung out with cooked cubed potatoes in a mayo dressing. Super light and refreshing!

This is one of my fav episodes, I wasn't expecting all these ways of eating cucumber

That last one is so ubiquitous in my husband’s (Norwegian) family that they don’t use a specific name for the dish. If my mother-in-law says “I made cucumbers,” this is what she means. 😊

We make tarator in Albania, too! Definitely a summer dish. You can even shred the cucumber by making cross cuts at the end of the cucumber and then horizontally cutting the shredded end into the yogurt. Happy to share the technique if you want! The only difference for our family is we do not use dill. Also, serving it with cornbread or white rice is something we usually do, too.

I'm astonished to learn that cucumbers can be cooked in different ways. I thought cucumbers were not supposed to be cooked, but I was wrong, and I realized that a fruit or vegetable can be a fun experiment to cook if it turns out well. I'm going to try out five cucumber dishes for sure! They are very easy to cook! I'm so excited to cook them!

A friend of mine is Russian and she made okroshka for me once wich is also a cold summer soup made with kefir. It has various cubed ingredients in it. Really recommended!