Cucumber & Fennel Salad

Ingredients

• 1cucumber, large
• 1 tspsalt, for salting cucumber
• 1 tspsugar
• 1fennel bulb, thinly sliced
• 2/3 cupsour cream
• 1lemon, juice only
• 1 tbspwhite wine vinegar
• dill
• black pepper, to taste

Method

1. 1

   Slice the cucumber thinly and put it in a strainer set over a bowl.

2. 2

   Sprinkle over the salt and the sugar and leave it for 10 minutes. The salt draws out the water that would otherwise thin the dressing.

3. 3

   Add the thinly sliced fennel to the strainer and toss it through the cucumber.

4. 4

   Stir the sour cream with the lemon juice, the white wine vinegar and the chopped dill, and season with black pepper.

5. 5

   Tip the drained cucumber and fennel into a serving bowl and fold the dressing through just before it goes to the table.