Refrigerator Cucumber Salad Recipe

Refrigerator Cucumber Salad by CampingForFoodies features a blue camping bowl on a tree stump filled with cold sliced vegetables including green English cucumbers, red onions and red bell peppers tossed in a simple homemade dressing with fresh dill.

Refrigerator Cucumber Salad Recipe

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Refrigerator Time: 6 hours

Total Time: 6 hours 20 minutes

Servings:

Camping For Foodies Sides Camping Recipes: This Refrigerator Cucumber Salad Recipe can be made days in advance and pairs well with sandwiches and grilled main dishes.

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Ingredients

Cucumber Onion Salad Ingredients

2 English cucumbers thinly sliced about 1/4 inch thick (do not peel)
1 small red onion thinly sliced
1/2 bell pepper red, yellow or green bell pepper, sliced thin (any color of your choice is fine)
2 cloves garlic chopped

Vinegar Dressing Ingredients

1/4 cup white sugar*
1 teaspoon salt*
2 teaspoons mustard seed*
1 teaspoon celery seed*
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes*
2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill or 2 teaspoons dried dill
1 cup apple cider vinegar if you don't have it, you can substitute white vinegar
1/2 cup water

Instructions

Ingredients marked with * can be measured and mixed at home.
Prepare vegetables as directed.
Mix cucumbers, onion, bell pepper and garlic and layer into in a large sealable non-reactive container. You can use a non-reactive bowl with lid, a large 64 oz half gallon jar with a tight-fitting lid or large mouth canning jars.
Create the vinegar dressing in a large bowl or sealable water bottle. Whisk or shake the vinegar mixture containing the sugar, salt, mustard seed, celery seed, red pepper flakes, dill, vinegar and water. Make sure the sugar and salt are completely dissolved.
Pour vinegar mixture over the layered veggies. Cover with tight-fitting non-reactive lid and refrigerate at least 6 hours (or several days for maximum flavor) before serving. After several hours invert the jar upside down in the refrigerator (or cooler) to ensure the vegetables at the top of the jar get submerged too, make sure the lid is very tight so the jar doesn’t leak while it's inverted.
Serve cold.
Note: This cucumber onion salad can be made ahead and stored in a refrigerator or cooler. Some people say refrigerator pickles can stay in the fridge up to 2 months ... but ... the longer they sit, the less crispy they become. We like our pickled vegetables to have a nice crunchy snap when we bite into them, so, I like to use them within a couple of weeks.

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