Creamy cucumber salad is a dish I grew up with; it brings back memories of dinners at my Grandma Mary’s house.
This summertime staple is a fresh addition to any picnic, barbecue, or potluck with crisp cucumbers, fresh dill, and a simple sour cream dressing.
This easy recipe is fast to prepare with ingredients you likely have on hand.
Ingredients in Cucumber Salad
Cucumbers – Use long English cucumbers or Persian cucumbers for this recipe as have thinner skins and don’t require peeling (although you can peel them if you prefer).
Field cucumbers can have tough skins, so they should be peeled (or peel some strips). The seeds in field cucumbers are larger and can be scraped out with a spoon.
Onions – Sweet white onion or red onion is optional but adds great flavor to this cucumber salad. Thinly slice the onion and soak it in cold water while preparing the salad to take off a little bit of bite from the onion.
Variations – This salad is great with fresh garden herbs like basil and dill. Chop up your favorites and stir them in.
Dressing – Making this cucumber salad dressing is easy. Combine sour cream, mayo, vinegar, seasonings, and a touch of sugar. You can replace sour cream with plain Greek yogurt if you’d like.
How to Make Creamy Cucumber Salad
The best cucumber salad recipe is one that is simple so the cucumbers really shine.
- With a sharp knife or mandolin, slice the cucumber ¼-inch thick. Thinly slice the onion if adding per the recipe below.
- Whisk the dressing ingredients in a bowl and toss with the cucumbers, onion and dill.
- Refrigerate one hour before serving. Garnish with additional chopped dill.
To Make Cucumber Salad Ahead
This recipe can be made 4 or 5 hours in advance for the best flavor; this way, the cucumbers stay crisp!
If you’d like to make it further ahead, slice the cucumbers and onions if using, and store them separately from the dressing in an airtight container. Combine the two an hour before serving.
Storage
Creamy cucumber salad will up to 2 to 3 days in the fridge. Drain any juices before serving, and add a little bit of extra sour cream if needed.
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Creamy Cucumber Salad
Ingredients
- 2 English cucumber
- ⅓ cup sliced white onion optional
For the Dressing
- ½ cup sour cream or plain greek yogurt
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- ¼ cup chopped fresh dill chopped
- 3 tablespoons white vinegar
- ½ teaspoon granulated sugar
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash the cucumber and cut it into slices ¼-inch thick.
- In a large bowl, whisk the sour cream, mayonnaise, dill, vinegar, sugar and 1/8 teaspoon salt.
- Add the cucumbers and onions if using and gently toss well to coat.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving.
- Taste and season with additional salt and pepper and sprinkle with fresh additional dill if desired.
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Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine American
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Very tasty classic. I didn’t have cucumbers, so I used zucchini instead. I did use the fresh basil but only had dried dill. Delicious!
Lovely!!!
I love this creamy cucumber salad!!
Loved the Creamy Cucumber Salad! Easy recipe & I used all cold items so when I tasted the results awesome. I still put in the refrigerator to allow everything to meld. I did use Apple Cider Vinegar as one of the different ingredients that could be used, still great.
Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Lise
All I can taste is vinegar with this recipe
Thank you for trying our recipe, Janae. I am sorry it wasn’t quite what you expected. You can reduce the vinegar to your taste or swap it out for apple cider vinegar.
Thank you so much for your this recipe. Brings back so many Easter dinner memories!!!
Delicious! Since I didn’t have any dill sprigs, I added some juice from a jar of dill pickles (which also provided the vinegar and sugar). Then salt & pepper (actually Montreal Steak Seasoning) and a little Stevia to goose the sweetness. Oh, and I did include the optional slice onion (sweet onion). Thanks!
I used this recipe as a base and added more ingredients where I felt needed based on taste. I ended up adding a little more sugar and a little less dill. I used half a cup of plain Greek yogurt and half a cup of sour cream, 2 large regular cucumbers (I made sure to sweat them) also added half a yellow onion that I soaked in water to cut the bite. My husband LOVES it as do I! I will be making again!!!
Delicious. I added a bit of red pepper flakes. It was a perfect compliment to air fryer salmon fillets with Dijon spread on top & Old Bay seasoning.
needs more info on what seasonings to use
Hi Angela, dill is listed in the ingredient list and in the notes section of the recipe it says you can add basil or parsley as well.
simply yummy. I left off onions. my seasoning was salt & onion powder plus the dill
absolutely delicious! I could eat this everyday in summer.
I used frozen dill, ACV and honey. The recipe is excellent and nostalgic for me as a Ukrainian :)
I made 4 modifications to this recipe and it turned out wonderfully. so I gave this recipe a 5 star rating because that’s what everyone else did after they didn’t follow this recipe.
another option for this is 3 cucumbers peeled and quartered in chunks 1 small onion diced very small, 1/8 c sugar, 2 teas pepper, 2 – 3 table spoons of vinegar, 1/4 -1/2 cup of mayo (miracle whip). mix and let sit for an hour in fridge.
This gets wiped out at our family dinners
It was very delicious. I substituted white wine vinegar for the white vinegar. Everyone absolutely loved it
I modified the recipe somewhat. I have an herb garden so I added fresh chopped parsley and replaced the onion with fresh chopped chives. I also did not add the sugar to the dressing and used lemon juice instead. DELICIOUS!
This was DELICIOUS!! I didn’t have fresh dill, so I substituted dry dill weed, it was fine. Fresh is always better! Everyone asked for seconds, I loved it!
Delicious. I upped the sugar to 1 1/2 teaspoons.
excellent
I made this tonite. my fresh dill died so I substituted dried dill. I used 1-1/2 tsp. sugar. I also salted cukes and onions and let moisture drain off for a while. Excellent!