Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, creamy cucumber salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mix cucumbers, sweet onion, and sea salt together in a bowl. This is the best way to use up garden cucumbers. The combination of crunchy cucumber slices with a creamy dressing is classic.
Creamy Cucumber Salad is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Creamy Cucumber Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have creamy cucumber salad using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Cucumber Salad:
- Make ready 3 cucumbers
- Take 20-30 small tomatoes (grape or cherry) work good
- Take 1/2 Medium red onion
- Take salt
- Make ready 1 cup mayo
- Make ready 1/2 cup sour cream
- Prepare 1 TBSP sugar
- Take 1 TBSP cidar vinegar
- Get 1 TSP garlic powder
- Make ready bunch fresh dill
- Prepare Pinch red pepper (cayenne) opinional
Use a mandoline for thin, even slices without any work. (I'm LOVING this mandoline right now and you'll see me using it in the recipe video below. Creamy Cucumber Salad is a refreshing summertime staple at any picnic, barbecue or potluck. Crisp cucumbers and fresh summery dill all tossed in a simple sour cream dressing. This easy recipe is made in a snap with ingredients that are probably already in the kitchen.
Steps to make Creamy Cucumber Salad:
- Cut the 3 cucumbers anyway you'd like. I skin some of the peel off mine and then cut them length wise and scrape out the seeds. Then I slice them.
- Cut tomatoes in half.
- Put the tomatoes and cucumber slices in a bowl and toss in salt. Let sit for about an hour and drain as much water as possible.No need to rinse.
- Chop up onion and set aside
- Mix the remaining ingredients; mayo, sour cream, garlic powder, sugar, apple cidar vinegar, and dill.
- After draining the excess water from tomatoes and cucumbers add the onion and mayo mixture (dressing). Stir together well. Let chill in fridge for one hour and enjoy.
How to make Creamy Cucumber Salad: My favorite tool for quick-prep veggies is the mandoline slicer. Are you familiar with a mandoline? If not, be warned: these tools are SHARP, and you don't want to get your fingertips anywhere near the blades (trust me…).; If you can avoid severing the tip of your finger, a mandoline is a speedy way to evenly and thinly slice a cucumber (or other vegetable. Creamy Cucumber Salad, sometimes called German Cucumber Salad, is the perfect dish during the summer. The thick creamy sauce made with fresh lemon, dill, and sour cream, reminds me of Tzatziki Sauce (and I could put that stuff on anything!).
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