The 1-Ingredient Upgrade for Better Cucumber Salads

You carefully slice your cucumbers, season them well, and set the salad in the fridge until the party starts. 

When it comes time to serve your refreshing salad, you realize it is a soggy mess that tastes mostly of water. This leaves you feeling anything but cool as a cucumber. 

While cucumbers are one of my favorite vegetables, especially in the warmer months, I've always struggled with making a tasty cucumber salad. 

Sometimes, the simplest recipes can be the most difficult to perfect! My biggest issue with cucumber salad has always been the flavor. No matter how delicious it tastes while I'm assembling it, as it sits, it always seems to go flat.

I often miss the zip you get from biting into a crunchy pickle, so I try adding dill, more vinegar, and more salt, but they aren't cutting it. 

Turns out, all I needed was to peek at the back of my favorite pickle jar for inspiration. The one ingredient my salad needed was already sitting in my spice drawer: coriander seeds.

Whether you are making a creamy cucumber salad or a vinegar-based one, adding toasted and cracked coriander seeds provides a lovely pickle-adjacent flavor. 

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