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Appetizers

Bread-free cucumber bites: cucumber rounds topped with garlic quark

Name: Bread-free cucumber bites
Yield: 24 pieces
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 2 Cucumbers (straight, medium); 250 g Quark (farmer's cheese) (smooth); 3 tbsp Sour cream; 2 Garlic cloves (pressed); 1 tbsp Dill (fresh, chopped, plus more for garnish); to taste Salt; to taste Ground black pepper

Thick cucumber rounds topped with garlic quark, sour cream, and dill. Make 24 bread-free bites in 20 minutes for New Year’s Eve.

Slovak cuisine · Vegetarian · Gluten-free · New Year's Eve appetizers · Translated from Slovak · November 2, 2026 · Rate the recipe

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 20 min
Servings: 24 pieces
Difficulty: Easy

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These bread-free cucumber bites use thick cucumber rounds in place of bread. They are topped with quark, a fresh farmer's cheese, mixed with sour cream, garlic, and dill. Fresh and ready in 20 minutes, they are ideal for New Year’s Eve and for guests who skip bread.

Ingredients

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Cucumbers (straight, medium) 2
Quark (farmer's cheese) (smooth) 250 g
Sour cream 3 tbsp
Garlic cloves (pressed) 2
Dill (fresh, chopped, plus more for garnish) 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper to taste

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Instructions

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Mix the quark
5 min
Mix the quark with the sour cream until smooth. Add the pressed garlic and chopped dill, and season with salt and pepper.
Slice the cucumbers
5 min
Wash the cucumbers and cut them into rounds about 1.5 cm thick. Use a small spoon to scoop a shallow hollow in each round without going all the way through, then pat the rounds dry with a paper towel.
Fill the rounds
10 min
Spoon the quark filling into the hollows, or pipe it in using a piping bag fitted with a star tip. Garnish with a sprig of dill.
Serve
Serve chilled within 2 hours of preparation, as the cucumber gradually releases water.

Tip: The hollow in each cucumber round holds the filling in place, so you can pick up a bite without the quark slipping off.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 19 kcal
Protein: 1.7 g
Carbohydrates: 1.5 g
of which sugars: 0.9 g
Fat: 0.8 g
of which saturates: 0.5 g
Fiber: 0.1 g
Salt: 0.1 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Zelené uhorkové jednohubky bez pečiva: namiesto chleba kolieska uhorky s cesnakovým tvarohom

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