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Chilled Cucumber Soup with Yogurt and Fresh Dill
Created by Chef Ally
A pale green bowl of summer itself, where peak-season cucumbers meet tangy yogurt and fragrant dill in a soup so refreshing it feels like shade on a hot afternoon.
This is the soup you make when the market is overflowing with cucumbers and the kitchen is too hot to turn on the stove. It asks almost nothing of you. Perfect ingredients need almost nothing done to them.
Seek out cucumbers that are firm, unwaxed, and smell green when you slice them. Local yogurt with real tang. Dill that was picked this morning if you can find it, or grow a pot on your windowsill. The ingredients do the work. You simply bring them together.
I learned this kind of cooking in the Mediterranean, where hot summers demand cold food and cooks have understood for centuries that the best response to heat is simplicity. A blender, a few hours of patience, and you have something genuinely restorative. Every meal is a meaningful choice, and this one says: slow down, stay cool, let the season feed you.
Ingredients
English cucumbers
Quantity
2 pounds (about 3 large)
peeled and roughly chopped
whole milk yogurt
Quantity
1 1/2 cups
garlic
Quantity
1 small clove
minced
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| English cucumberspeeled and roughly chopped | 2 pounds (about 3 large) |
| whole milk yogurt | 1 1/2 cups |
| garlicminced | 1 small clove |
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