Saturday, April 20, 2013

Cucumber Cups


This week on pandagrub we are going to be making mango salsa cucumber cups.

The panda sunning himself in the picture above is named Spicy. Spicy is sitting with the ingredients used to make the cucumber cups. He is lying down with 1 cucumber, tomatoes, a mango, limes, and an onion.

Spicy is peeling the skin off of a cucumber. If you want a pretty cucumber design, peel a strip of the cucumber skin every half inch or so.


After your done peeling the cucumber, cut the cucumber into one inch slices. Doesn't this picture look like a vertebrae?

Now Spicy and I are scooping the insides of the cucumber out. It's easy to scoop the insides out of the cucumber if you use a melon baller. If you don't have a melon baller you can use a teaspoon. Make sure you don't scoop too much of the inside of the cucumber out or it will make a hole and all the salsa will fall out.


Now we are making the mango salsa. To make the salsa dice the onion, tomatoes,and mangoes. Add a dash of salt and the juice of one lime.

After you make the salsa, scoop it into your cut cucumbers.

Spicy loved the cucumber cups! He thinks that they're the perfect treat for Summer. I hope you enjoy this refreshing recipe. 

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