Today we tell you how to make a classic recipe in the UK, the cucumber sandwich, so you can easily prepare them at home and enjoy them like any British family. At mid-morning or at tea time, they are perfect to fill us up and kill the bug in a simple way.
These delicious sandwiches, made with ingredients that we all have at home, they work very well as a snack or at appetizer time so we recommend that you prepare them when you have the opportunity.
Although the stricter recipe It is made only with sliced bread spread with butter and covered with cucumber slices, today we have prepared the more elaborate recipe in which we add a little cream cheese and some fresh aromatic herbs, to get a truly spectacular cucumber sandwich.
In a bowl, put the fresh cheese and add the aromatic herbs and mayonnaise. Work with a fork until you get a homogeneous mixture. It is important that aromatic are freshhere the dry ones do not work well.
With a sharp knife or a mandolin, cut thin slices of cucumber. Sprinkle them with a little fine salt and put them on absorbent paper for a few minutes. This way we will get the water that the cucumber can release don’t wet our sandwiches.
Cut the edges of the sliced bread and spread the slices with the mixture of cream cheese and mayonnaise with aromatic herbs. Cover each slice with nine cucumber slices, stacked one on top of the other like in the image.
We cover the cucumber slices with other slices of bread spread in the cream mixture forming sandwiches. We finish cutting each sandwich into four bite-size piecesso that they can be served in a small size, accompanying the tea.
With what to accompany cucumber sandwiches
These cucumber sandwiches, they are a great snack or snack, perfect to take in the middle of the morning or at snack time, in the middle of the afternoon. You can have them with a tea, and even alternate them with a slice of classic cheesecake or with some shortbread cookies to enjoy the combinations of textures and flavors.
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