Ukrainian Tomato and Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Dressing
March 12th, 2011 in Salads by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 30min
This simple salad with tomatoes and cucumbers is very popular in Ukraine, and I don’t see any reasons why it wouldn’t be liked in any other country which grows tomatoes, cucumbers, dill and sour cream with onions and garlic.
As opposite to summer salad with tomato and cucumbers with vegetable oil based dressing, this one uses sour cream and mayonnaise.
If you are trying to cut on calories – use mix of sour cream and low calorie yoghurt, or just yoghurt as a base for dressing, but, believe me, this salad tastes the best with real sour cream.
Ingredients:
- 2 medium size tomatoes
- 4 baby cucumbers
- ½ of small red onion (I’ve used 1 shallot instead)
- 1-2 garlic cloves
- Fresh dill
- 3 tablespoons of sour cream
- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- Ground pepper
- Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients: rinse tomatoes, cucumbers and dill; any kind of cucumbers and tomatoes will work good for this salad, just make sure the ratio of both is more or less the same; if you like it spicy use 2 garlic cloves, I ended up using just one:
Ukrainian Tomato and Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Dressing Recipe: Step 1 -
Start of by preparing dressing. For that put 3 tablespoons of sour cream to a mixing bowl:
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Add about 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise:
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Peel skin from garlic cloves and press it to the bowl:
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Add salt and ground black pepper, mix and set aside:
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Slice tomatoes in wedges into salad bowl:
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If cucumbers are mature and skin is bitter – remove it, cut each cucumber in half lengthwise and slice them:
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Peel and slice onion, add to the bowl:
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Add finely chopped dill:
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Mix everything, add prepared salad dressing and mix again:
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Serve as appetizer before main dish course:
Ukrainian Tomato and Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Dressing
Just finished making this; it was easy, delicious, and perfect for this hot Texas day.
I will be making this again; shared it on Pinterest.
Thank you
Thank you!
it’s to bad the pictures [ EVEN THOUGH ,VERY TASTY LOOKING] are so large went to print this & it took 6 pages. WOW !! No way of adjusting the size of pictures. All that printed was the pictures not a list of ingred. or the instructions. Little disappointed trying to leave a reply but wordpress keeps saying ” error ” & it also says “this message is a duplicate” but when I hit Submit Comment it doesn’t show up .So I’m going to try this last time. Also I PINNED this recipe no problem there.
Did you use print feature of your browser or the “print” button on the top of the recipe? If you use “print” button a page with recipe will open and you can modify it and select what to print and what not to print. There is also “remove images” checkbox to help with images.
Comments on this blog are held for moderation and will not appear on the page until I see them. Sorry for slow reply.
Loved the look and sound of this recipe but I can’t seem to find that pesky print button on the top of the recipe.
Just use the print function of the browser, I’ve worked on improving the way recipe page is formatted for printing, it should nicer now when printing from the browser menu: File -> Print. Please tell me if it works!
it’s to bad the pictures [ EVEN THOUGH ,VERY TASTY LOOKING] are so large went to print this & it took 6 pages. WOW !! No way of adjusting the size of pictures. All that printed was the pictures not a list of ingred. or the instructions. Little disappointed
Thank you for your prompt reply. We are bringing this to a Russian dinner tomorrow night for 11 people. (we are part of an international dinner group) Your response helps alot.
Just add one more tomato and maybe one more small cucumber and it should do it 🙂
Recipe does not say how many people it serves as appetizer???? Need to know today…will be making tomorrow. Thanks
It depend how much you will serve per portion, and ppl will come for seconds on this one, that is for sure 🙂
I would say from 6 to 8.
I pinned your recipe, no problem. I will also be making this recipe right now! Looks fabulous!
i wish your site was pintrest friendly i really loved this recipe and wanted to pin this
I wish pinterest was more site-owners friendly, for the love of god I can’t figure out what is wrong and why these two don’t play nicely together… 🙁
UPD: I think I figured out what was wrong, and tried to correct it, can you verify on your side if it is working for you?