Valentine's Recipes > Cucumber Hors d'oeuvre

How to make cucumber hors d'oeuvre:
A refreshing and cooling cucumber starter.



Ingredients

a large thick cucumber
1 cup full fat fromage-frais
1 cup full fat Greek yogurt
salt and black pepper to taste
1 clove of garlic
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Crush garlic clove but keep whole.
- Combine yogurt and fromage-frais.
- Season and put garlic clove into mixture.
- Cut cucumber in half.
- Cut one half into four equal pieces and scoop the flesh out of these, making four containers.
- Peel the other half and chop up the flesh.
- Allow the flesh to drain onto a clean tea towel and squeeze a little to remove as much moisture as possible.
- Remove the garlic clove from the yogurt mixture and fold the cucumber flesh into this.
- Check seasoning.
- Pile mixture into the cucumber containers and put onto two attractive serving plates.
- Sprinkle with well-chopped parsley and serve with breadsticks.


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