Graduate students can eat healthily without racking up credit card debt on groceries. Every now again I throw up a recipe on this site that demonstrates my point. This is a quick and dirty meal for hot Summer days and tight wallets. It is budget friendly for two reasons a) I didn't have to heat up the house to make it (and therefore didn't have to turn on the air conditioner to cool it down and b) the total cost of the ingredients came to a little over $5.
I ate this on Sunday night with a microwave-poached egg.
Cucumber, Apple Dill Salad (serves 2-4)
2 cucumbers, deseeded and chopped into 1 inch by 1/2 inch pieces
1 green apple , chopped into similarly sized pieces
3 gloves of garlic, chopped
3 scallions, chopped
3-4 tablespoons of fresh dill, chopped
1 cup of 0% fat greek yogurt
salt and pepper to taste
As you can see, the recipe involves a lot of chopping :)
Mix the yogurt, scallions, garlic, dill and salt and pepper together. The longer you let this mixture sit, the more garlic-y it will become. I let it sit for about 5 minutes. Toss the cucumber and apple together in a separate bowl. Combine the two mixtures.
Warning: the salt will draw water out of the cucumbers, so serve right after you combine the two mixtures.
Damn tasty and it cooled me off to boot!
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