While it’s too early to pick fresh cucumbers from the garden, this seasonal recipe’s fresh taste can be enjoyed all summer long. Make this cucumber salad as a side for your Memorial Day barbecue or take it along to a block party potluck. It is sure to be a hit!
This recipe is at its best when you can use garden fresh cucumbers, onions, and dill, but store-bought produce and dried herbs are also delicious. If you are very health-conscious, you can omit the sour cream and marinate the vegetables in a simple vinaigrette.
Gurkensalat is the perfect accompaniment for summer meals. The tangy dressing cuts through the unctuousness of grilled meats, and the creaminess is a great compliment to chicken or fish. The salad gets better as the veggies marinate in the dressing, so this is also a perfect dish to make a day ahead of time!
To be honest, I don’t usually measure anything when I make this salad. I start with a dollop of sour cream and then add the other dressing ingredients to taste. That way I can get the dressing to just the right balance of creamy and tangy.
This recipe is very adaptable! Try replacing the sour cream with Greek yogurt or adding goat cheese or olives into the mix for a more Mediterranean taste.
GURKENSALAT German Cucumber Salad
Salad:
2 cucumbers
1 medium onion
Dressing:
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tsp. sugar
3 T. vinegar
Dill, to taste
Peel and thinly slice both of the cucumbers and the onion. Place them in a large bowl.
Mix together sour cream, sugar, vinegar, and dill. Pour over salad. Toss to coat.
Refrigerate for a few hours before serving.
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You need a better way to copy recipes. Just recipes, not the ads or whole page,just recipes.
Try highlighting just what you want to copy/ print . Then when you go to your pull down menu, select print, change to print selection and it will print just what you want it to. You can also open a blank word document highlight the recipe area, do a control c and then go down and select your document and do a control v. (using and IBM, windows program)
Is there a way to Save this recipe. There needs to be one.
Our famiily (german/russian) have made this wonderful salad for years. One branch used buttermilk instead of the dressing here and the other branch used the vinaigarette. Both branches of the family also added sliced hard boiled eggs.
My mother used to make this. It’s just delicious.
I had trouble copying also. Now I just highlight the part I actually want to print, left click mouse and hit “copy”, go to my email, send myself a new message and left click on mouse again. Hit “paste” into the body of the email and send it to yourself. This way you can also edit anything you want out of your copy or make any notes you would like to keep.
I’m Polish and this has been a staple in our diets all my life. I prefer the sour cream recipe.
You folks having a problem copying receipes need to discover “evernote”. It’s a free download and you can copy anything you can highlight.
Just copy and paste to a Word Doc. It is the easiest way to get just what you want.
I like this recipe also using the Sour Cream. I just add a dash of paprika to the recipe and sprinkle some paprika on the top.
For cucumbers in a bowl l mix mayo and vinegar.
I just tried the selection choice and it worked very well. My only complaint is it printed in red and is very hard to read. Please print your recipes in black. Colored ink cartridges are too expensive to use for any text documents.
I like easy german recipes, that cucumber recipe was excellent, I took it to a picnic this past weekend. Could you sent me a recipe every day. Thank you.You rock
My husband has a garden every year. I make this only I use Miracle Whip, onions, garlic, and cukes. Sometimes I add tomatoes to it. My family loves it.
Take it to a cook-out, it’s quik, easy and a real crowd pleaser.
My parents were from Poland; and this cucumber/sour cream recipe
was a standard on our table all the time, even when we had company.
So many recipes from Europe are shared by other nationalities… don’t
forget about the historical changes of border through the years has
left the marks of each others’ cultures. I’m sure you know this; but
some European countries are smaller than some of our large cities.
An example would be that we used to go from Pennsylvania to New
York as a day trip… in Europe, you can go from Germany to Poland
in a short trip to visit relatives. Perspective is important. Thank you!
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I know how to save just the part of the recipe I want on my laptop. But hey is their any way I can save just the recipe part on my tablet which now use all the time. Mmmm it’s that time of the year again so Merry Christmas and a happy new year to every one.
I replaced sour cream with Greek style yogurt. Great taste with benefits!
Save your dill pickle juice and add to your cucumbers, mayo and sour cream. I find the dill is intensified.
OMG!!!!! I was also raised on this recipe!! Well, actually a bit of a switch, we always used Miracle Whip instead of Sour Cream. My Great-Great Grandma is where it comes from, she was from Germany, as it was handed down, everyone remembered it a little different, but trust that it was ALWAYS a staple at all cook-outs, usually right next to the Brats!!!! Thank you for the memories!