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This delicious and easy Turkish cucumber salad is so tasty and made with a few simple ingredients! Serve it as a side or use it as a topping on meat or rice.

This recipe is similar to the Turkish dish cacik and can be served as a side or topping - similar to tzatziki.

An overhead shot of Turkish cucumber salad in a black bowl with a silver spoon.

Emily's Recipe Notes

Sometimes all it takes is a simple side salad to complete a meal. This one is perfect - it's cooling and refreshing, quick to pull together, and pairs well with chicken kebabs, grilled steak, or even pasta.

Don't skip the fresh herbs as they absolutely make the salad!

A bowl of Greek yogurt, four Persian cucumbers, mint, dill, sea salt, and a clove of garlic on a marble background.

Ingredients for Cucumber Yogurt Salad

Greek Yogurt - You'll use 1 ½ cups of Greek yogurt as the base of this recipe.
Cucumbers - You'll use 4 small, Persian cumbers for this recipe. You can slice them into coins if you'd like this to be more of a salad, or you can dice them if you want this to be more of a sauce (ie. you're going to use it as a topping or dip).
Herbs - You'll need both fresh mint and dill for this recipe. I think fresh herbs are essential because they impart so much flavor!
Garlic - You'll need 1 garlic clove that you either finely mince or (preferably) grate. You want it to be almost a paste so that it gives each bite a subtle garlic flavor.
Salt - You'll use a teaspoon of sea salt to finish this dish.

Sliced cucumbers and chopped dill and mint on a black cutting board.

Instructions

Combine the yogurt, cucumbers, mint, dill, garlic, and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir to fully combine.

Sliced cucumbers, Greek yogurt, herbs, and sea salt in a large, metal mixing bowl.

More Turkish Recipes You'll Love

If you love Mediterranean flavors and fresh ingredients, check out some of our other favorite Turkish-inspired recipes.

Shepherds Salad (Turkish Chopped Salad) - an easy salad recipe with loads of fresh ingredients.
Menemen (Turkish Eggs Recipe) - a delicious breakfast recipe combining eggs, tomato, and green pepper.
Turkish Lentil Soup (Mercimek Corbasi) - a warming bowl of creamy lentil soup.

A closeup shot of a piece of pita bread scooping up cucumber yogurt salad.

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