What to cook with cucumber

154 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use cucumber. 37 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Greek, Mediterranean and Vietnamese recipes.

recipes use it: 154
are built around it: 37
median total time: 30 min
ready in 30 minutes or less: 61

Recipes built around cucumber

With cucumber, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with cucumber

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with cucumber, out of 154 recipes.

Lemon36% of recipes
Tomato38% of recipes
Red onion27% of recipes
Mint21% of recipes
Garlic51% of recipes
Olive oil42% of recipes
Radish14% of recipes
Lettuce16% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 98 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1. Half of them fall between 1 to 2.

Where cucumber shows up

Cuisines

Greek13
Mediterranean11
Vietnamese11
Middle Eastern10

Courses

Side37
Lunch35
Dinner33

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.