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Danish Cucumber Salad Recipe

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Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:
one English cucumber
*a sprinkle of salt for squeezing out the cucumber juice. discard juice
1 dl or 1/2 a cup of water
1 dl or 1/2 a cup of sugar
1 dl or 1/2 a cup of distilled white vinegar
*a sprinkle of salt and pepper for taste.
Directions:
Directions:
In Danish homes, the refrigerator normally has a bowl of cucumber salad waiting to be used for either lunch or dinner. Typically the cucumber salad (agurkesalat) accompanies meat dishes. Danish hot meals such as frikadeller (Danish meat balls) or flæskesteg (roast pork with crackling) or stegt kylling (roast chicken) has the Danish cucumber salad as a side dish. If you make enough Danish cucumber salad, you can have it with leftover foods the next day.
Also, Danish cold lunches such as an open sandwiches, known as smørrebrød, are decorated with a variety of fine ingredients including the cucumber salad (agurksalat) as a topping. Even Danes eat the Danish hotdog has the cucumber salad (agurksalat) as a topping!
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Here is a homemade Danish Cucumber Salad that is tasty and quick to make. The recipe is easy to make and only requires a few easy ingredients that you probably have in your kitchen cabinet.

 

 

 

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