Cucumber Mint Salad With Goat Cheese

Total Time: 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 2 english cucumbers, thinly sliced
• 3 tablespoons mint, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced (or 1/2 tsp garlic salt)
• 1 green onion, thinly sliced
• 70 g goat cheese, crumbled
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 dash black pepper
• salt, if using garlic cloves

Recipe

• 1 combine cucumbers, mint, garlic (if using fresh), green onion, and cheese in a bowl.
• 2 combine olive oil, lemon juice, pepper, and salt (if using) in a screw top jar. shake until well combined. pour over salad.
• 3 enjoy at room temperature or chilled.
• 4 note: excellent with pita crisps.
• 5 note: when made for the blog, the dressing was omitted and only half the goat cheese was used (where most of the calories are hiding). instead, i just used a light olive oil mist, which may not have been necessary. cucumbers are plenty wet as it is!