Cucumber salad with honey, garlic and dill

Name: Cucumber salad with honey, garlic and dill
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 1 kg Cucumbers; 1/4 kg Onion; 1 tbsp Honey; 1 tbsp Salt; 40 ml Vinegar; 3 Garlic cloves; handful Dill

Sweet-and-sour cucumber salad with onion, garlic, honey, vinegar and dill, chilled overnight. Serves 6 as a side for meat or potatoes.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Servings: 6 servings
Difficulty: Easy

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Cucumber salad with honey, garlic and dill is a simple sweet-and-sour salad made a day ahead. Thinly sliced cucumbers are mixed with onion, crushed garlic, honey, salt and vinegar, then seasoned with fresh dill. The salad rests in the refrigerator overnight so the flavors meld and the cucumbers release their juices. Serve it as a side with meat, potatoes or a lighter lunch.

Instructions

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Cut the cucumbers into thin rounds and place them in a bowl.
Peel the onion and garlic. Slice the onion, crush the garlic and add both to the cucumbers along with the honey and salt.
Pour in the vinegar and mix thoroughly. Refrigerate the salad overnight, then serve.

Tip: Stir the honey into the vinegar first so it distributes evenly throughout the salad. Add the dill just before serving, as it would soften and darken in the dressing overnight.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 58 kcal
Protein: 1.8 g
Carbohydrates: 14 g
of which sugars: 7.5 g
Fat: 0.3 g
of which saturates: 0.1 g
Fiber: 1.6 g
Salt: 2.9 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: Uhorkový šalát s medom, cesnakom a kôprom