Cucumber as cooked veg

They sell huge white yellow cucumbers here. Grown on the island.
The imported green small ones are tiny in comparison, but 3 times the price. Buy local.

These cucumbers remind me of our garden grown cucumbers, that had too much time on the vine.
The peel has to be removed and the seeds too. Cutting them up into chunks came next.

I put 2 teaspoons of sugar in a pot and started to caramelize it, then added butter and onion.
When the onion was soft, in with the cucumber. Season with salt to draw out some moisture. Add a gluck of water if nescessary.

Some white pepper and chopped greens from a spring onion bring flavour.

Now in with 2 tbsp of vinegar.

Let it cook on low until the cucumber chunks have the softness you like.
It was astonishing how long they needed to cook.

Ingredients:
1 large white cucumber
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp butter
Salt
1 tsp salt
Water
2 tbsp vinegar ( I used light brown cane vinegar)
Spring onion
1 small white onion
Pepper