Cucumber Boats
I am always searching for quick, healthy and easy snacks - aren’t we all? This one works… for the most part. I can’t see myself packing this one for work and whipping it out at my desk, so we’ll say this is a good weekend snack or when you get home from work snack. Well, now that I think about it I guess you could just chop the cucumber and mix it in with the cottage cheese and take it to work..? I digress.
If you like cottage cheese, and cucumbers then this will be a little slice of heaven for you. Once I made this and ate it I realized that the cottage cheese mixture would work plain, or with melon or berries, etc. So mix it up however you want!
**I get a LOT of questions and comments on this one - Yes, it would be awesome with tomato and celery, or dried spices, and greek yogurt would be awesome! I’m sad I didn’t think of this first! Make it your own!
Cucumber Boats
Yield: 2-4 servings
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cucumber, peeled, halved and seeds scooped out
3/4 cup cottage cheese
2 tablespoons basil, chopped
2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
Salt and Pepper - to taste
Directions:
Peel a cucumber - all the way if you want, or just some. I tend to only peel about half of it. That sounds weird. What I mean is that I only take off about every other half inch of skin on the cucumber. Even that sounds weird. You'll just see in the pictures. Anyway, slice it in half and using a spoon scoop out all the seeds. Think ants on a log when you are doing this.
Mix together the cottage cheese, basil, salt and cilantro and fill the hollowed out area. I topped mine with the cracked pepper.
Oh this looks so awesome and easy. Definitely good for the South Beach diet!
Yum! Those look delicious and healthy!
Awesome! Bet it would be probably be good substituting celery or tomato too
I can’t wait for snack time!
Just made these! So easy and delicious! Definatly making them again!
Can you make this with dried basil and cilantro??
Delicious. Fun to eat. Awesome? Awww-No! Definitely overkill word.
Made these for my mum!! She loved them! Thanks!!
How would greek yogurt work instead of cottage cheese?
Just made this with cottage cheese pre-made with chives … yum! I scooped the extra out of the bowl with crackers
I bet just a touch of lemon zest and juice would be so good … great snack for the. kids !