This is my recipe for so called Polish Cucumber salad: simple salad with cucumbers, fresh dill and marinated onions.
Marinating onions makes them less bitter and removes most of that onion breath smell therefore this salad is great for parties, cookouts and such.
I am using balsamic vinegar and sour cream as dressing here. If you like, you can replace vinegar with lemon juice, but I somehow like vinegar better.
Ingredients:
1 big cucumber or few smaller ones
Bunch of fresh dill
1 small onion
3 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar (white or dark)
3-4 tablespoons of sour cream
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
Prepare ingredients:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 1
Peel and chop onion, move to a small bowl:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 2
Add salt and ground black pepper to taste:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 3
Pour vinegar in:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 4
Mix everything and set the bowl aside for 15-20 mins to marinate:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 5
Then remove skin from cucumber, and slice it into thin circles (I like them very thin, but you can vary this to your liking):
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 6aYou can cut cucumber with a knife, but I usually use my mandoline with cut resistant kitchen gloves to keep hands safe for that:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 6b
Add chopped dill:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 7
And marinated onions (if you don’t like taste of vinegar for some reason, just scoop onions from the bowl and leave all excess vinegar out):
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 8
Add sour cream:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 9
Mix everything, add more salt and pepper if you like:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 10
And serve right away:
Cucumber and Dill Salad: Step 11
