This creamy cucumber salad recipe is easy, refreshing, and crunchy, made of cucumbers, red onions, dill, and sour cream dressing. Perfect for a potluck, BBQ, it’s ready within minutes, and it's low carb.
This Creamy Cucumber Salad is also known as German cucumber salad made with sour cream, vinegar, and fresh dill. This Classic Summer Cucumber Salad is the perfect side dish for potlucks, barbecues, or picnics and can be assembled in a few minutes.
We make this salad almost weekly at home, and sometimes I replace sour cream with plain greek yogurt, making it a low-calorie salad, and it's great for weight loss.
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Ingredients for Creamy Cucumber Salad Recipe
Here is a list of ingredients to make a creamy cucumber onion salad recipe.
- Cucumber: English cucumber is perfect for this salad. However, you can also use any cucumbers with fewer seeds that are less watery. You can also remove the skin if they are hard. Persian Cucumbers also work great.
- Onion: red onion works best in salads, so that’s what I used.
- Herbs: I have used fresh dill but feel free to use any herbs you have in hand. You may also use 1 teaspoon of dried dill instead.
- Sour Cream: Used full-fat sour cream, you can also use plain greek yogurt instead of sour cream.
- Garlic: Freshly minced garlic is used, or use ¼ teaspoon of garlic powder.
- Lime juice: I used the juice of half lime. Feel free to increase or decrease according to your preference. Or use classic white vinegar.
- Seasoning: salt, black pepper.
How to Make Creamy Cucumber Salad
Using a mandoline or sharp knife, thinly slice the cucumbers.
In a large bowl, whisk together the sour cream, fresh dill, minced garlic, lime juice, salt, sugar, and pepper.
Then add the sliced cucumber, onion, and toss the salad to combine. Adjust the seasoning at this stage.
Serve immediately or chill the salad until ready to serve.
Serving Suggestions for Creamy Cucumber Salad
You can serve this creamy cucumber salad with soups or sandwiches.
Tips & Variations
- Use a mandoline to get super thin slices of cucumber.
- You can add any herbs like parsley, cilantro, chives, or green onion instead of dill.
- If you do not have lime juice, use vinegar.
- If you don't have sour cream at home, try replacing it with greek yogurt. Or use any combination of sour cream, greek yogurt, or mayonnaise.
- You can also add other vegetables like tomatoes, bell peppers, avocado, and shredded carrots to this salad.
FAQs
Yes! Cucumbers tend to release liquid as they sit. So if the salad is left for long, then the water dilutes the flavor. Hence I would keep the chopped cucumber and onion without salt in the refrigerator and just stir the sour cream dressing before serving. However, the leftovers can be stored for a day or two in the fridge.
Yes, This salad is very versatile, you can make it with mayo or even plain greek yogurt. Just replace an equal amount of sour cream with mayo.
Yes.
No. This recipe does not freeze well because of sour cream and fresh cucumber.
More Cucumber Recipes
- Cold Cucumber Soup
- Cucumber Raita
- Cucumber Chutney Sandwich
- Cucumber Kosambhir
- Avocado Cucumber Chutney Sandwich
More Salad Recipes
- Chickpea Salad with Yogurt dressing
- Kachumber Salad
- Boiled Peanut Salad
- Watermelon Salad with Mint
- Chickpea Cucumber Salad
- Southwestern Salad with Avocado dressing
Creamy Cucumber Salad recipe with Sour Cream and Dill
Equipment
Ingredients
Measuring cup used 1 cup = 250 ml
- 1 long english cucumber thinly sliced
- ½ small onion thinly sliced
- ⅓ cup sour cream (or plain Greek yogurt)
- 1 tablespoon fresh dill chopped (or 1 teaspoon dill weed)
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- juice of half lime (or 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar)
- salt and black pepper to taste
- ½ teaspoon sugar (or stevia), optional
Instructions
- Using mandoline or sharp knife thinly slice the cucumbers.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the sour cream, fresh dill, minced garlic, lime juice, salt, sugar, and pepper.
- Then add the sliced cucumber, onion, and toss the salad to combine. Adjust the seasoning at this stage.
- Serve immediately or chill the salad until ready to serve.
Notes
Tips & Variations
- Use a mandoline to get super thin slices of cucumber.
- You can add any herbs like parsley, cilantro, chives, or green onion instead of dill.
- If you do not have lime juice, use vinegar.
- If you don't have sour cream at home, try replacing it with greek yogurt. Or use any combination of sour cream, greek yogurt, or mayonnaise.
- You can also add other vegetables like tomatoes, bell peppers, avocado, shredded carrots to this salad.
Nutrition
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Jess says
This was absolutely delicious! I am going to be making this a lot this summer!
Bhavana Patil says
Thats so awsome to hear, i am glad you liked it.