This cucumber slaw with margarita dressing is a delicious low carb salad that would be perfect for your next bbq or picnic. A delicious way to use some of those garden cucumbers! The low carb creamy dressing has the sweet and tart taste of a margarita.
You might also like this low carb creamy cilantro lime coleslaw.
My husband’s vegetable garden is starting to crank out some produce and that means it’s time for me to come up new vegetable recipes. He just presented me with his first batch of cucumbers and while I love cucumbers, I don’t eat that many.
So while watching the next Food Network Star a contestant made margarita dressing that sounded interesting to me. I decided to try my hand at that and made this cucumber slaw with margarita dressing. It’s cool, crunchy, colorful and the dressing is creamy and sweet but tart. You will love it!
What’s In Margarita Dressing
Now that I think about it, I heard of that dressing on the comeback kitchen. I’m not sure what she put in it but when I think of margaritas I think lime and salt. And because this is a slaw dressing it had to be creamy too.
So this dressing is simply lime juice, mayo, salt and sweetener. No tequila though I imagine if you loved that taste, you could work it in there. But my version is just these 4 simple ingredients.
The Difference Between Slaw And Coleslaw
I found an interesting article on this topic on Chowhound. The term coleslaw is a dutch word (koolsla) in which kool means cabbage and sla means salad. That was back in the 1700s and mayonnaise came into the picture later on. So technically this is a coleslaw since I used red cabbage. However any salad made of chopped vegetables would be termed a slaw
More Garden Cucumber Recipes To Try
Every year we are inundated with a lot of garden cucumbers so here a few other great cool cucumber recipes to try. I have a bacon, tomato, ranch cucumber salad and a lemon ginger Asian cucumber salad for you. And another way to use cucumbers is topped with a creamy cheese spread like this creamy herb cheese or with this pecan and bacon goat cheese ball. All are very summer worthy cucumber recipes.
Low Carb Cucumber Slaw Recipe
This is very simple, so I just chopped my red cabbage very thinly and then used my julienne peeler to make the cucumber sticks. For the dressing, whisk mayo, lime juice, salt and Swerve sweetener and toss the salad.
NOTE: You can make this a head of time but don’t add the cucumber until you are about to serve it. The cucumbers have a lot of water in them and might make it watery. So you could make this the day before but just add the cucumbers right before serving.
Well I hope you enjoy some of these garden cucumber recipes. I’m sure I will have more this summer as they just started rolling in from the garden. And if you have any you want to share with me, please let me know in the comments! The nutritional information for 1 serving is:
207 cals / 21.6g fat / 4.5g carbs / 2.4g fiber / 0.5g protein = 2.1g net carbs
1 tablespoon of the dressing has 0g net carbs!
Cucumber Slaw with Margarita Dressing (low carb)
This cucumber slaw with margarita dressing is a delicious low carb salad that would be perfect for your next bbq or picnic. A delicious way to use some of those garden cucumbers! The low carb creamy dressing has the sweet and tart taste of a margarita.
Ingredients
- 2 cups red cabbage, thinly sliced and chopped
- ¾ cup mayo
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- â…“ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons Swerve sweetener
- zest of half of a lime
- 1 cup cucumbers cut into matchsticks
Instructions
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In a bowl, whisk, lime juice, mayo, salt and Swerve sweetener.
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Thinly slice cabbage and toss with dressing.. Cucumber will make it a bit watery after awhile so it’s best to add them right before serving. However you can make the rest of the salad ahead of time if you wish.
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Refrigerate for awhile to let the slaw soften before eating.
Marisa F. Stewart
What great information about slaw and coleslaw. The colors are so pretty and perfect for a summer barbecue or picnic. I’m not a fan of creamy dressings so the margarita dressing would be one that I’d love.
Lois Christensen
This look so colorful and perfect for summer!
Jolina
Looks so delicious and refreshing.We eat lots of cucumber too. This would be a nice change from just slicing them up and mixing them with regular greens for sure.
Veena Azmanov
Crunchy and healthy and best for a snack too. Good for a BBQ party option too.
Arlene Mobley
This is a great way to use up those cucumbers.
Gloria | Homemade & Yummy
Loving the sound of this tasty salad. What a great way to use cucumbers. The dressing sounds amazing. We all need lots of salad recipes this time of year.
Judy C.
This is such a beautiful slaw! It’s definitely on the menu for this weekend. I might even add some julienned jicama for some extra crunch. Thanks for the great recipe!
Denise
Hi Judy,
I love that idea about the jicama! I just started eating it and love to find new uses for it. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like it!
Denise