Creamy Cucumber Salad (+Video)
This Creamy Cucumber Salad is made with fresh cucumbers, sour cream, mayonnaise and fresh dill. So easy and creamy! Perfect summer salad!
A FRESH AND CREAMY FAVORITE
I just adore cucumbers and slicing them up brings back a flood of memories of my childhood years. If you’ve never eaten cucumber in vinegar or in a creamed salad before, these recipes might sound really weird or strange. I guess it is one of those things that you just gotta grow up eating to truly appreciate. But I’m thinking, if you give them a try, you just might grow to love these simple but tasty cucumber dishes.
FRESH CUCUMBERS AND FRESH DILL
Fresh dill makes all the difference in this! So, where possible, use fresh dill in this recipe instead of the dry stuff. You won’t regret it. Also, I like to use English cucumbers. They are the longer cucumbers you can find in most grocery stores these days. Sometimes they are wrapped in plastic wrap. What I love about them is they have a super tender skin that you can eat. So you don’t have to peel them first! Such a time saver!
This Creamy Cucumber Salad is always a hit! It’s a perfect side dish to any spicy food you might be eating. It works with Spicy Chicken Wings or Nashville Hot Chicken!
INGREDIENTS NEEDED FOR CUCUMBER SALAD: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
- English cucumbers
- red (or white) onion
- sour cream
- mayonnaise
- fresh dill
- white vinegar
- white sugar
- salt
HOW TO MAKE CREAMY CUCUMBER SALAD:
Cut the cucumbers in half lengthwise. Scrape out the seeds and slice into ¼” slices. Place them in a bowl along with sliced red onions.
Combine all dressing ingredients.
Toss dressing with cucumbers and onions.
Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.
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Creamy Cucumber Salad (+Video)
Ingredients
- 2 English cucumbers
- 1/2 cup sliced red (or white) onions
- ½ cup sour cream
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- ¼ cup chopped fresh dill
- 3 tablespoons white vinegar
- ½ teaspoon granulated sugar
- salt, to taste
Instructions
- Cut the cucumbers in half lengthwise. Scrape out the seeds and slice into ¼" slices. This is optional as the seeds are edible.
- Add cucumbers and sliced onions into a bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together sour cream, mayonnaise, fresh dill, vinegar and granulated sugar.
- Pour over cucumbers and onions. Stir to thoroughly coat cucumbers and onions.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour before serving.
- Taste cucumbers and season with salt at this point if preferred.
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Nutrition
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Hi, I grew up eating cucumbers as main dishes! They are a favorite and I see the same love in my kids. Love the sound of the recipes. Can't wait to try them since we usually just eat them raw. My one question is why do u say to not eat the peel of regular cukes?
Thanks,
Leann
Love cucumbers! Found your recipes while looking for any recipes for using cukes in hot dishes..like pot roast? My Czech grandmom made a wonderful creamed cuke salad with fresh dill, much like this one seems to be done. My husband's family (of Japanese origin) makes a thinly sliced (not peeled)cuke salad using rice vinegar and tiny canned baby clams (or clam bits, if a budget concern), traditionally served during New Year's parties. The extra thin slicing (done with the fine slicing blade on a grater- box),with just the touch of peel left on, also makes it very pretty. It has a yummy sweet-tart taste, a bit different than regular vinegar cukes.
I am so thrilled to find this recipe! Creamed cucumbers bring back wonderful childhood memories for me as well. My Mom made them on a regular basis. Sadly, she passed away two years ago from Alzheimer's. So many times I have thought about this recipe, wishing that I could re-create it. Thank you so much.
sounds wonderful, can't wait to try the creamed cucumbers. Thanks so much for sharing.
This brings back so many memories! I thought I would never find anything close to what I had as a kid! You did it! Wonderful!
Erin..haha. Well Mom is right there but I'm still so happy to hear that they enjoyed it all anyway!!! 🙂
Ok, I made these as well as the BLT bites for a friends brunch. She has a little garden with delicious cucumbers and I wanted to make something good with them. I saw this recipe a while ago and I had never heard of them but i thought.. Everything I have made from you, has always been great. So I'll go with it. Well I forgot dill and was out of vinegar. So I left them out. I was telling my mom, on the way to the brunch and she lectured me how I HAD to have the vinegar! Well everyone loved them anyways even without the important stuff 🙂 Thanks again!
Erin
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I love creamed cucumbers and have never had a formal recipe. Oddly enough these were first made for me by a gal who was raised in Baltimore. 🙂 I am so happy to have a printable recipe – thanks!
Your creamed cucumbers look just like what my mother made. I didn't have her recipe so trying this for sure!
I adore cukes and will be sure to try the vinegar also.
The creamed cukes are so good – and cukes are certainly abundant this time of year!
Love me some cucumbers! I usually slice them up really thin, along with cherry tomatoes, red wine vinegar, and "Season All" seasoning. YUMMY!
Both of these recipes look delicious! We're big cucumber and squash eaters, so I'm sure I'll be working this into my summer veggie rotation.
Thanks for sharing your cucumber salad, this week, too! Great minds think alike. Thanks for linking up to Tempt My Tummy Tuesday over At The Well.
I often ate the vinegar cucumbers at my auntie's house. My mom made a simpler version with just sour cream and cukes. I want to try your version.
Would love the vinegar recipe
Your creamed cucumber salad sounds wonderful.
🙂 Mandy
My mom always made (and still does!) the cukes in vinegar, but I've never tried the creamed version. Sounds yummy! 🙂
I LOVE cucumbers. For me, the smell of fresh cukes and watermelon are the smells of summer. And I adore them in vinegar and creamed and plain and salted….oh heck, I just adore them. I'll definitely be giving both of these a try.
OMG I think we had the same mother. That is exactly how my mother fixed cucumbers with the vinegar and salt. I loved it that way! Wow things for the trip down memory lane! – Tammie
Brandie!!! This reminds me so much of my family. My mom always makes vinegar cukes or cream cukes. My mom says it comes from our Polish grandmother. Now, I don't know if that the origin of these cuke dishes are actually Polish…but I adore them anyways! So very much reminds me of being younger…we used to have these all the time.
Thanks so much for sharing it
Your Mom knew just how to stave the family off until dinner could be finished, and now that my kids are eating salad-type veggies, I find myself using the same tactic to find the peace she did. These are lovely recipes Brandie, fresh and healthy. Brava!
My daughter and I love cucumbers too! Most of the time we just peal and slice them — add a sprinkle of salt — and eat them. Next to that my favorite is the creamed cucumbers like you have! YUMMY!
Sounds and looks very tasty. I'm writing up my wife's grandmother's recipe for something similar for this weekend.
I've seen lots of slight variations on this. I like the onions in yours.
I love both these salads! A neighbor just gave me a new (to me) kind of cucumber called New Zealand, or apple. I'm anxious to do something with it.
Right now I have a ton of cucumbers in my fridge that need to be used but I am sick of making pickles. If I am feeling up to it (dentist today) I think I might make the creamed version. I love that stuff!