Can you cook cucumbers?

Can you cook cucumbers?

HomeCooking Tips, RecipesCan you cook cucumbers?

We love eating them in salads and on sandwiches but what about stir-fries?

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Yes! You Can Cook Cucumbers! (The Complete Guide)

Carolyn Hodges MS RDN is a culinary dietitian and the creator of The Dinner Shift a no-food-rules website that helps families get dinner on the table with weeknight recipes simple meal planning and meal prep basics. When she’s not creating content for her own site grocery shopping or washing a million plates Carolyn teaches nutrition to college students and develops and photographs recipes and nutrition-related content for clients. She lives in Cleveland Ohio with her own recipe critics her husband Kyle and their two boys Caleb and Ezra.

Cucumbers are incredibly versatile. We pickle them make classic salads with them mix them with tequila pile them on sandwiches and sometimes even use them as a substitute for bread. But have you ever considered cooking a cucumber? If you’re like most of us that’s a no.

Considering how common cucumbers are in our diets it’s surprising we haven’t thought of this before. Whether or not you’ve ever wondered if cucumbers can be cooked (after harvesting a bumper crop from your backyard for example) we’re here with the intriguing answers.