Mighty-Cool Dinners for the Canines Days of Summer season

Monday: Grilled Flank Steak with Cucumber-Dill Salsa

Be icy as a cucumber—actually—with this 20-minute, six-ingredient dinner. The steaks get grilled out of doorways to attend temps down within the kitchen, and the like a flash and refreshing cucumber salsa handiest takes a couple minutes of chopping. Bonus: Cucumber is fat of water, so it helps attend you hydrated and sweat-free! 

Recipe: Try our Grilled Flank Steak with Cucumber-Dill Salsa

Tuesday: Cherry Gazpacho

Chilled soup in summer season is a a success switch—all you’d like is a blender! This one combines the season’s original cherries with cucumbers and bell pepper (plus some ice cubes, for magnificent measure) for a colorful, chilly meal. 

Recipe: Try our Cherry Gazpacho

Wednesday: Za’atar-Spiced Chicken Salad with Whipped Feta

It would possibly per chance possibly per chance also sound counterintuitive, however intriguing meals can really attend icy you off in hot weather—they make you sweat, thereby prompting your body’s pure temperature-regulating methods. So lean into the spice with this dish, which begins with rotisserie hen (aka don’t even must fire up the grill!) and builds on it with za’atar, cucumbers, tomatoes, and naturally cooling mint, for a principal hen dinner winner. 

Recipe: Try our Za’atar-Spiced Chicken Salad with Whipped Feta

Thursday: Mediterranean Eggplant Summer season Rolls

Veggies are naturally high in water insist material, so eating a great deal of them when or no longer it is hot out will attend attend watch over your body temp. Pack a ton into your dinner with these rainbow summer season rolls. Cucumber, eggplant, pomegranate, and original herbs—plus a roam of refreshing lime—will attend you fat and successfully-hydrated all summer season lengthy! 

Recipe: Try our Mediterranean Eggplant Summer season Rolls

Friday: Grilled Salmon with Mint Tzatziki

Bring on the mint! The refreshing herb combines with cucumber and yogurt (every cooling meals), plus citrusy orange, to be pleased this grilled salmon with the total flavor. No must fracture a sweat cooking it—apt wrap all of it up in foil, situation it on the grill, and attend! 

Recipe: Try our Grilled Salmon with Mint Tzatziki

Formula

For the steak with cucumber salsa: 

• 1 English cucumber
• 2 tbsp. finely chopped purple onion
• 1 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 tbsp. purple wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp. finely chopped original dill
• 1 1/2 lb. flank steak

For the gazpacho: 

• 5 slices ciabatta
• 3/4 cup EVOO
• 1 lb. cherries
• 2 purple bell peppers
• 2 jalapeños
• 6 cloves garlic
• 1/4 cup purple wine vinegar
• 1/2 Persian cucumber
• Ice cubes

For the spiced hen salad: 

• 2 tbsp. olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
• 1 tbsp. za’atar
• 2 rotisserie hen breasts, with pores and skin
• 7 oz. feta in brine, drained, plus 1 tbsp. brine
• 1 tsp. lemon zest, plus 1 tbsp. juice (from 1 lemon)
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 gigantic heirloom tomatoes
• 8 oz. cramped cucumbers (about 4)
• Diminutive original mint leaves, for garnish
• Crumbled pita chips, for garnish (no longer principal)

For the summer season rolls: 

• 1/4 cup tahini
• 3 tbsp. original lime juice
• 1 tbsp. EVOO
• 1 cramped clove garlic
• 4 rice paper rounds (8 to 9 inches)
• 4 grilled eggplant rounds from deli counter
• 1 cramped cucumber
• 1 cup original cilantro leaves
• 1/4 cup original flat-leaf parsley leaves
• 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds

For the grilled salmon: 

• 1 cup simple Greek yogurt
• 1/2 cup finely chopped English cucumber
• 2 tablespoons chopped original mint
• 1 cramped clove garlic
• 1 gigantic orange
• 1 gigantic salmon fillet (about 2 lbs.)
• 1 gigantic shallot
• 6 sprigs original basil
• 1/3 cup EVOO
• 1/3 cup white balsamic vinegar