Aug 18 2009
Cucumbers can be cooked!
Apparently, cooking cucumbers does not take away its crunchy goodness. I stuffed it with sauteed ground pork with red bell peppers, and garlic (ala stuffed green peppers), poured some diced tomatoes and tomato juice on top, some basil, oregano and red pepper flakes, and baked it at 350 for about 45 minutes, and voila, it turned out to be a pretty good dish.
It kind of has the texture of chayote squash when cooked. Which makes sense, I guess coz I think they are somewhat related.
As of late I have been eating a lot of veggies (doing the south beach diet) and have discovered lots of yummy ways to cook cucumbers. If you make them in a sort of stir-fry they are also yummy. The first time I made them with diced green peppers, yellow peppers, red peppers, onion, eggplant and mushroom. Topped with melted cheese when done…yummy. Tonight I used ground turkey, cucumber and eggplant and it was equally yummy for different reasons. You can send some extra veggies our way if you can figure out how to get them here!
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