Prosciutto, Sour Cream & Feta Stuffed Cucumbers
It’s time for our favorite stuffed cucumbers recipe. Our garden cucumbers this year are slightly *better* than last year, but still they’re struggling a bit. The leaves seem to die off and brown rather quickly, but they’re flowering well. What does make to fruit results in such crunchy and fresh cucumbers! If anyone has any advice about our browning leaves, we’d love to hear from you. So what we have been able to collect this year have been wonderful and to count, we harvested seven cucumbers! Five more than last year!
Stuffed Cucumbers Recipe
Cucumbers are so fresh, crispy and refreshing. Our house is rarely ever without cucumbers because they add the perfect crunch and texture to last minute salads, sandwiches and rice paper spring rolls . We’re testing some new recipes for upcoming garden parties and decided to play with a batch of stuffed cucumbers. They’re so perfect for parties and make great bite sized appetizers.
Sour Cream Filling
The filling for the stuffed cucumbers that we came up with has sour cream instead of cream cheese because we wanted something light and tangy. Season these cute little bites of crunchy freshness with extra paprika for added color and smoky bite. You and your guests will be quite pleased with these at your next gathering. You can’t eat just one of these addicting stuffed cucumbers. Make sure you have about 2-3 per guest!
Favorite Cucumbers for Stuffing
With so many different varieties of cucumbers, each has it’s own delicious use. For stuffing, we prefer the larger cucumbers that you can remove the seeds easily. Smaller and thinner Japanese and Persian cucumbers are great for salads. They are crunchy and fantastic. But coring them out to stuff is alot of work because they’re too skinny. So the larger the cucumber, the easier it is for you to stuff.
Stuffed Cucumber Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Large English Cucumber , chilled and sliced in 1/2-1" thick coins
- 3/4 cup (100g) Feta Cheese , crumbled
- 1/3 cup (40g) Roasted Nuts , finely chopped
- 2 Tablespoons (30ml) Sour Cream
- 1 Slice Prosciutto , cut into 1"x1/2" strips
- Dill , in 1/2" pieces to garnish
- Lemon Wedges , to serve on the side
Instructions
- Combine feta, nuts, and sour cream in a bowl. Have prosciutto and dill prepped and ready.
- Core out some of the cucumber coins' centers. Fill with a dollop of feta mix. Garnish each stuffed cucumber coin with a slice of prosciutto and a sprig of dill.
- Serve with wedges of lemon for individual squeezing.
I’m loving the idea of this stuffed cucumber appetizer! Made it with some cheddar cheese spread and it was awesome 1
Wish I could have your Summer Fest Cukes right now!
Diane and Todd, I’ve heard so many amazing things about your garden from Jen Yu. I don’t know where you both find the time to tend to it so wonderfully.
Love this gorgeous appetizer!
Your stuffed cucumbers look amazing!
They look so pretty. Congrats on your 7 cucs! We have a blueberry bush and this was the first year it fruited and we got 10 blueberries! Soooo exciting to see a garden grow!
Did you know if you leave a cucumber on the vine long enough it will get almost 2 feet long, 4 inches in diameter and turn bright orange? Don’t ask me how I know that.
Summer Fest sounds like so much fun! I can’t wait to jump in and get started on some recipes. Your bite sized cucumber noshes look delicious. Creamy meets crispy make for great partners. Like how you mixed the sour cream with the goat cheese to lighten things up. Congrats on your seven cucumbers this year!
My friend and I had a Zucchini swap, Curried Zucchini Bread for Paula Deenโs Chocolate Chip Zucchini bread. We both enjoyed our swap.
Love cucumbers! My zucchini’s are going crazy so I’ve been constantly working on new recipes for them these past few weeks!
Perfect for a summer party!
Love this idea, have done similar but will try it with the prosciutto.
I just have to tell you that I made these about an hour ago because I happened to have everything (well, almost everything) in the house. I used mascarpone cheese instead of the sour cream. I’m trying to save at least a few of them for my hubby to have when he gets home from work, but it’s been hard because I’ve got 2 little girls who think they are the best thing since the invention of M&Ms. Of course I’M not guilty of eating any of them myself. Oh no. That just wouldn’t do.
You guys are so inspiring!
Beautiful! What purity of presentation, they look really refreshing.
That looks amazing – I love the colors and I can only imagine how good those taste.