Simple Sour Cream Cucumbers – How to Make Creamed Cucumbers and Onions
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Simple Sour Cream Cucumbers is an old fashioned summer salad featuring garden cucumbers and onions. The creamy dressing is a delightfully easy sour cream base, flavored with with a pinch of tarragon (or dill).
Simple Sour Cream Cucumber Recipe
Simple is better when it comes to summer produce. When in season, fruits and vegetables are at their peak of flavor, and I prefer to enhance these natural flavors instead of masking them.
Most often, I make Mom’s Cucumbers and Onions. It’s what I grew up eating and will always be my go-to cucumber recipe. But, I love to switch it up, and this is one way I do it when it comes to cucumbers. I also love these Soy Cucumbers with Sesame Oil.
This is an old fashioned cucumber and onion salad straight from The Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book.
Sour cream gives a cool and creamy note to this classic salad, and a pinch of tarragon gives a special flavor note. If tarragon isn’t your cup of tea, try swapping in dill weed. I love both!
Grandma’s Creamy Cucumber Salad
I’m sure many Grandmas in the past made this exact creamy cucumber salad during the summer with cucumbers and onions were plentiful.
It’s cool and refreshing, and it goes with almost any summer meal.
I tend to keep meals light during the hot summer months. This means pulling out cold salads like this creamed cucumber and onion salad to serve as a easy side dish with simple lunch meat sandwiches, burgers or grilled pork steak.
Summer Side Dish
Creamy cucumber salad recipe is the perfect summertime dish when cucumbers are abundant.
Whip up a batch to share at potlucks, barbecues, or a regular weeknight served with something off the grill such as salmon, steak or hamburgers.
Ingredient List for Creamed Cucumber and Onions
- Fresh Cucumbers
- Onion (yellow onion or white onion)
- Sour Cream
- Vinegar
- Water
- Salt
- Black Pepper
- Seasoning (dill weed or tarragon)
How to Make Creamy Cucumber Salad
Step By Step Instructions
- Peel and slice cucumbers and onions thin.
- Mix sour cream, vinegar, water, salt, pepper and dried tarragon.
- Pour the sour cream mixture over the cucumbers and onions.
- Serve immediately or chill for a couple hours in the refrigerator.
Storage Instructions
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
For the full instructions and ingredient amounts for sour cream cucumber and onion salad, scroll to the recipe card at bottom of this post.
How to make cucumber salad creamy?
There’s several ingredients to add to a cucumber salad to give it a creamy texture. Sour cream, mayonnaise, miracle whip, Greek yogurt (plain, not sweetened), prepared salad dressings such as Ranch or Caesar are all great ingredients for a creamy cucumber salad.
How to fix cucumbers with sour cream?
Slice cucumbers and onions with a knife or mandoline slicer. Whisk together sour cream, vinegar, water, fresh dill, salt and black pepper. Pour over cucumbers. Chill in the fridge before serving.
Recipe FAQs
- I prefer my cucumbers peeled, but feel free to leave the peel on if that’s what you prefer. English cucumbers have a thin skin while regular garden cucumbers are more waxy skinned.
- Slice both cucumbers and onions thin.
- White vinegar works great but try changing it up with rice vinegar or white wine vinegar.
- Dill would be an awesome substitute for tarragon, if desired.
- Fresh dill would be even tastier than dried dill in my opinion. Or you could totally omit any additional seasonings other than salt and black pepper.
- Stir in some diced, seeded tomatoes for a new spin.
What can I make with leftover sour cream?
Sour cream is one of the most universal ingredients out there. It can be used in breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack or dessert. Sour cream makes a creamy sauce, a moist cake or bar, and it also helps tenderize meat since it’s high in acidity.
Check out these ten delicious recipes using sour cream.
- Sour Cream Zucchini Casserole
- Butterscotch Sour Cream Pie
- 9 x 13 Sour Cream Coconut Cake
- Crock Pot Continental Chicken
- Sour Cream Pork Chops
- Old Fashioned Rhubarb Cake
- Grandma’s Sour Cream Apple Squares
- Beef Chunks in Sour Cream
- Old Fashioned Pound Cake Recipe
- Pistachio Bundt Cake with Sour Cream
More Creamy Salad Recipes
Simple Sour Cream Cucumbers – How to Make Creamed Cucumbers and Onions
Ingredients
- 2 cucumbers
- 1 onion
- 4 Tablespoons sour cream
- 1 Tablespoon vinegar
- 1 Tablespoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon (or dill weed)
Instructions
- Peel and slice cucumbers and onions, and slice thin.
- Whisk together sour cream, vinegar, water, salt, pepper and dried tarragon.
- Pour dressing over vegetables; serve immediately or let marinate in the refrigerator for a couple hours.
Notes
- I prefer my cucumbers peeled, but feel free to leave the peel on if that’s what you prefer. English cucumbers have a thin skin while regular garden cucumbers are more waxy skinned.
- Slice both cucumbers and onions thin.
- White vinegar works great but try changing it up with rice vinegar or white wine vinegar.
- Dill would be an awesome substitute for tarragon, if desired.
- Fresh dill would be even tastier in my opinion. Or you could totally omit any additional seasonings other than salt and black pepper.
- Stir in some diced, seeded tomatoes for a new spin.
- Looking for a traditional cucumber and onion salad? Try Mom’s Version!
- The carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information for this recipe are auto-calculated and can vary depending on the products used. They should not be used for specific dietary needs.
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