Cucumber Radish Dill salad

Cucumber Radish Salad is an incredibly tasty salad full of fresh tastes. With slices of radishes, cucumbers, and red onions for a cucumber radish salad BURSTING with refreshing flavors and zero guilt. 

Looking for an amazing anytime salad full of fresh ingredients? Try slices of radishes, cucumbers, and red onions for a cucumber radish salad BURSTING with refreshing flavors and zero guilt.

Personally, I have an obsession with salads – I love the beautiful flavors, colors…ease of making them. But recently, I realized, for a side dish blog, I have very few radish side dishes here. And the whole irony is that there is radish in the logo (so cute, right?).

This Radish salad summer side dish recipe will remedy that, and the added bonus is that I get to eat it when I am done! Just look at those chunky cucumbers, and radishes all smothered with fresh herbs………wow.

Why you will love making this side salad. 

Uncommon vegetables: Radishes are not a common veggie to just consider when you go to the store. They can be spicy to some, peppery almost, and are so unique.

Radishes also give such a nice crunch in a salad and are easy just to eat as finger food with vegetable dip on a holiday platter, so while widely ignored, they are an amazing and unique vegetable option.

Quick to make: Totally light and easy, this salad is done in mere minutes with only the prep of the vegetables taking most of the time.

Let the vegetables shine: This particular recipe isn’t creamy – it’s made with homemade dressing but without the dairy like our other dill cucumber salad has.

This allows the light, crisp taste of cucumber to be the show’s star. However, if you want a creamy-based dressing, we have that version below too!

Simple Salad Ingredients

Here is a grocery list (ingredient list) to see if you have everything on hand. If so, proceed through the instructions and learn how to make this awesome and refreshing spring salad!

• English cucumbers– quartered English cucumber pieces.
• Radishes– sliced thin, so not too overpowerful.
• Red onion– red onion can be particularly strong in fresh salads, often taking over the flavors. To let other vegetables shine, simply cut and place red onion pieces into cold water for 30 minutes, dump water, dry onions, and continue to place in salads. This takes away some of that initial bite.
• Fresh dill– there isn’t much like fresh dill. It smothers the cucumbers and radishes not only in beautiful colors but beautiful flavors.
• White sugar– we like to add white sugar to ours to cut the vinegar; it’s also fine to add a bit of honey or molasses for the same reason.

How to make Cucumber and Radish Salad Recipe.

Spring salad, summer BBQ, or fresh holiday side, this salad is a perfectly easy dish.

To kick off a few new radish dishes, which I seriously hope you enjoy, I dissected one of my favorite cucumber salads on this blog to create a new version- Radish Cucumber Salad with Homemade Dressing.

The homemade marinade, the fresh dill, and the chopped-up red onions make for a powerful and tasty side salad.

1. Add cucumber slices, quartered radishes, and chopped red onion to a bowl.
2. Mix vegetables together well.
3. Add fresh dill herbs to a mixing bowl and combine well.
4. For the homemade vinaigrette: In a separate smaller bowl, add olive oil.

5. Add apple cider vinegar and sugar and mix well. This is your marinade dressing for your salad. If a creamy dressing is preferred, please see the notes below. Season dressing with salt and pepper.
6. Pour oil and vinegar mixture over sliced cucumber and radishes and toss until all vegetables are well covered. Let fresh flavors mingle and marinate for another 30 minutes, stirring occasionally to avoid settling. No need to add to the fridge as oil tends to harden in cold environments – the countertop is fine.

Can the sugar be left out of this recipe?

Yes, but it’s a tiny amount and helps balance the vinegar. It won’t affect the overall carb count too much. The overall carb count of adding it would be about ten carbs if you were to eat ALL the salad and ALL the dressing as one serving.