Lookin for an amazing any time 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 really have very little radish side dishes here. And the whole irony is that there is a radish in the logo (so cute, right?).
This Radish salad side dish recipe is going to 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.
Num, Num – Let’s Make Salads!
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 a finger food with vegetable dip on a holiday platter so while widely ignored, are an amazing and unique vegetable option.
Alone they also go great with dips like cucumber dip or ranch dip, which also help remove some of that well known bite. This particular recipe isn’t creamy – its made with homemade dressing but without the dairy like our other creamy cucumber salad has. You could certainly take the dressing from that recipe and combine it with this one (minus the vinaigrette) to mix up the salad if you preferred that base.
Radish Cucumber Salad Ingredient List
To kick off a few new radish dishes, of 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 all make for a powerful and tasty side salad.
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
- radishes – sliced thin
- red onion
- fresh dill
- olive oil
- apple cider vinegar
- white sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
For the cucumber radish video, you will noticed I sliced the cucumbers and quartered the radishes instead. I just wanted more chunky radishes that day but since radishes are so strong, you may want to continue with the way the recipe is written.
How to make Radish Salad
Spring salad, summer BBQ or fresh holiday side, this salad is a perfectly easy dish. Let’s get started on Radish Cucumber Salad!
- Add sliced cucumber, quartered radishes, chopped red onion and fresh dill herbs to a mixing bowl and combine well.
- For the homemade vinaigrette: In a separate smaller bowl, add olive oil, apple cider vinegar, sugar and mix well. This is your marinade dressing for your salad.
- Season dressing with salt and pepper.
- Pour oil and vinegar mixture over sliced cucumber and radishes and toss well until all vegetables are well covered.
- Let flavors mingle and marinate for another 30 minutes, stirring occasionally to avoid settling. No need to add to fridge as oil tends to harden in cold environments – counter top is fine.
- Serve Radish salad immediately or refrigerate (covered) until ready to serve.
- Mix salad well before serving one more time.
Add additional sea salt is amazing and cracked pepper if desired.
Variations for Radish Salad
This salad is perfect as is, but can you really ever go wrong with more seasonal veggies? Here are a few ideas for a more robust salad.
- Fresh Cold Corn ( I like to use the Corn Shucker shown Here)
- Serve chunky radishes and cucumbers on a bed of Arugula or Kale
- Add small cubes of watermelon for a sweet bite
- Diced Avocado is a complementary veggie for this side salad
- Chunks of Tomatoes bring in color and texture
Cucumber Radish Salad with Dill
Radish Cucumber salad with fresh dill all wrapped up with delicious tart oil and apple cider vinegar dressing is a fresh salad perfect to really enjoy the earths best veggies.
Ingredients
- 2 English cucumbers, quartered
- 12 radishes, sliced thin
- 1/4 chopped red onion
- 1 tablespoon fresh dill
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 2.5 tsp white sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Add sliced cucumber, quartered radishes, chopped red onion and fresh dill herbs to a mixing bowl and combine well.
- In a separate smaller bowl, add olive oil, apple cider vinegar, sugar and mix well. This is your marinade dressing.
- Season dressing with salt and pepper.
- Pour oil and vinegar mixture over cucumber and radishes and toss well until all vegetables are well covered.
- Let flavors mingle and marinate for another 30 minutes (counter top or fridge is fine), stirring occasionally.
- Serve Radish-Cucumber salad immediately or continue to refrigerate (covered) until ready to serve.
- Mix salad well before serving to prevent too much dressing settling on bottom of bowl.
- OPTIONAL: 6Add additional sea salt and cracked pepper before serving.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 102Total Fat: 9gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 55mgCarbohydrates: 5gFiber: 1gSugar: 3gProtein: 1g
Nutritional information is automatically calculated with ingredients and serving size and may not be accurate. Please always double check with your own nutritional apps as well.
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