{"id":24957,"date":"2025-06-18T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24957"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:18:32","slug":"cucumbers-for-salads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/cucumbers-for-salads\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucumbers for Salads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24958\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cucumbers-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24958\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cucumbers-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cucumbers photo from Freepik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cucumbers can play a supporting role in salads or can be the main event. Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, offers these suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chopped cucumbers, watermelon, and red onions, sprinkled with balsamic vinegar and either nutritional yeast or crumbled vegan cheese<\/li>\n<li>Diced cucumbers, halved cherry tomatoes or diced salad tomatoes, cubed avocado, and croutons<\/li>\n<li>Chopped cucumbers, black olives, cooked and chilled pasta, and either crumbled smoked tofu or veggie crumbles<\/li>\n<li>Diced cucumbers tossed with fresh dill and either plain vegan yogurt or vegan sour cream mixed with lime juice<\/li>\n<li>Sliced cucumbers mixed with fresh or roasted fennel and garlic paste<\/li>\n<li>Diced cucumbers tossed with garlic and ginger paste, minced fresh chilies or bell peppers, and shredded carrots<\/li>\n<li>Thinly sliced cucumbers and radishes, sprinkled with vinegar, organic brown sugar, and red pepper flakes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal <\/em><em>in the USA only<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cucumbers can play a supporting role in salads or can be the main event. Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, offers these suggestions: Chopped cucumbers, watermelon, and red onions, sprinkled with balsamic vinegar and either nutritional yeast or crumbled vegan cheese Diced cucumbers, halved cherry tomatoes or diced salad tomatoes, cubed avocado, and croutons Chopped cucumbers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24959,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions\/24959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}