After experimenting with numerous mayo-based recipes—which I don’t like—I came up with this sour cream-based one. This dish has great flavor!
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 25 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 large cucumbers, sliced
- ⅛ teaspoon salt, or as needed
- 1 ¼ cups sour cream
- ¾ bunch green onions (white and pale green parts only), chopped
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 2 cloves garlic, or more to taste, minced
- ¼ teaspoon dried dill weed
- ⅛ teaspoon paprika
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Spread a paper towel over a large platter. Arrange cucumber slices in a single layer atop the paper towel. Sprinkle 1/8 teaspoon salt over the cucumber slices; refrigerate at least 2 hours and up to 6 hours.
- Mix sour cream, green onions, white sugar, apple cider vinegar, garlic, dill, paprika, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and black pepper together in a bowl; refrigerate at least 1 hour and up to 4 hours.
- Pour sour cream sauce over the cucumbers and stir gently to coat.
- I sometimes like to add more garlic, as I love garlic.
- I also sometimes add 2 to 3 chopped fresh chives for added flavor.
- Depending on the size of your platter, you can stack layers of paper towel and cucumber slices atop one another.
- This can be served immediately, but tastes bests after standing in refrigerator for 1 to 3 hours after mixing.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 84 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 9 g |
| Cholesterol | 11 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 65 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
No changes came out great.
Wanted something light and summery. My mom used to make this and I loved it! The perfect blend with this recipe, plus low in calories . This is a keeper
I doubled the recipe for a big BBQ and it was a hit!
I was hoping for a dressing that was similar to tzaziki. I only added 1 1/2 T sugar and still felt it was too sweet. I would not make this again.
This was good! I did feel like it was a bit too sweet, so I would cut back on the sugar next time. Hubby and the girls seemed to like it, but the little guy did not. Thanks for sharing. 🙂