Mashed Cucumber with Garlic

There are a lot of benefits in cucumber; good for our skin is one of the well known facts as we can see that there are a lot of facial products that are prepared from cucumber. Other than that, it is also a cooling vegetable that helps to reduce the heat from our bodies. Hence, if you are feeling some heatiness in your body, you can take this vegetable to cool your body down.

Here is an easy way to cook cucumber to provide more varieties than just eating it fresh and raw, but of course, to retain its nutritional value, eating it raw is the great.

The most popular cucumber recipe in Bengali, mashed cucumber with garlic, is easy to cook, but tasty to eat. Cucumber is cold by nature, and it can clear away heat, moisturize pathogenic dryness to loosen the bowel and reduce body fat. It’s said that cucumber juice is very good for purity, skin protection and crease smoothing. In addition to garlic’s killing germs, it is really a healthy recipe.

Preparing homemade mashed cucumber with garlic at home is a lot less luxurious than buy them. See this how to make mashed cucumber with garlic. If you don’t grow cucumbers, buy them at a grocery store. Add some fresh garlic, dill, water, vinegar, and pickling salt to your jar and you are ready to mashed cucumber with garlic.  

The first time my husband and I ventured to the local hotel on our own, this was one of the recipes we ended up with. We both instantly liked it. The sweet, crispness of the cucumber balances the bite of garlic and heat of pepper oil well. It is a simple recipe that is easy to make and holds up well.

Nutritional Information

Amount per serving: Calories—35, Calories from fat—25, Total fat—2.5g, Saturated fat—1g, Cholesterol—5mg, Sodium—55mg, Carbohydrate—2g, Dietary fiber—0g, Sugar—1g, Protein—1g.

Ingredients

1 medium cucumber, peeled and grated

4 garlic cloves, peeled and mashed to a paste

2 table spoons olive oil

Salt and freshly-ground black pepper to taste

A little vinegar

2 table spoons fresh dill weed, finely chopped

A few ripe olives

How to make Mashed Cucumber with Garlic

Peel the cucumber to remove the pesticide residues on the skin. Wash them in water. Smack the cucumber to loosen it. Slice it into chunks and put then into a soup bowl. Set aside. Remove the garlic skins. Wash the cloves in water. Chop them up and put them into a small dish.

Place the grated cucumber in a cloth and squeeze as much excess liquid as possible out of it. Combine the cucumber with the remaining ingredients and turn into a bowl. Garnish with the olives and serve.