Comments on: How to Make an Easy Cucumber Onion Salad

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 02:34:15 +0000

Thanks for recipe salad is good for health with dinner lunch any time we take it.

By: Daniel Blakei

Daniel Blakei — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:38:51 +0000

Awesome combination of wellness and good taste! This salad will surely complete vegan diet meal so I could go out my way feeling fit and fabulous. Lately, I’d been busy preparing vegan recipes that I could eat in a week. Looking online, from foodies blogs helped me out plus it kept my motivation to continue this intensive fitness goal of mine. Cucumber has always been my favorite because it could be included both in main dishes and desserts. This salad is also great in keeping my immune system strong.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:09:19 +0000

My recipe is with the sour cream salt and pepper. We have always sliced the cucumbers sprinkled them with salt and set aside for awhile to drain some water off, otherwise the dressing gets real watery. This way the dressing stays thicker and sticks to the cucumbers and onions better. I don’t use vinegar, but I will try with fresh dill. I love dill.

By: Julie @ Wholefully

Julie @ Wholefully — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:40:11 +0000

In reply to karen s. I had never heard that!

By: karen s

karen s — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:09:54 +0000

to prevent your cucumbers from being bitter: cut the tip off one end and rub them together. It will draw a milky white substance or a gel like substance to the end. wipe it off and continue until it is gone. This is what causes your cucumbers to be bitter. Then peel, slice, whatever and enjoy

By: Melissa @ Insider The Kitchen

Melissa @ Insider The Kitchen — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:04:23 +0000

My mom makes another version of this cucumber salad. We call it “Sour Cream and Cucumbers.” It makes a delightful summer salad, perfect for any BBQ.

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:22:07 +0000

I love this recipe! I’ve been making it since you first published it and I love everything about it. A summer staple in our house.

Thanks Cassie.

By: RosieFbxAK

RosieFbxAK — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 07:14:38 +0000

This is probably one of the few summer dishes that I’ve been making for as long as I can remember. I grew up on an ewe farm in southern Michigan and our summer gardens were ginormous. While my mother taught my sister how to actually COOK, and can, and preserve, etc. I learned all the quick stuff. Mom said it was because when I decided I was hungry, I was hungry NOW! And since we weren’t allowed to eat between meals, by asking me to collect, clean, and cut stuff up from the garden, and put together the simpler dishes, I could *sneak* my snack from the slices! Tus I was the weird kid who loved raw veggies INCLUDING broccoli and “color flower”. =) I never thought about it as a recipe though as I’ve always made it from memory, almost from instinct, until a friend asked me for the recipe. Thank goodness people like you record this stuff! THANK YOU!

Like you I always made it with sour cream until a couple years ago when I switched for the same reason. I have never used, or thought of using vinegar though. My dish ends up w/ a lot of milky cucumber ‘juice’ in the bottom of the bowl so I would fear adding a liquid would make it runnier? I’ll have to try a little vinegar next time. Of course, I’ll have to try apple cider vinegar. ANY excuse I can find to use raw AC vinegar w/ the mother – I’ll take it!

When I only have a half hour or so before people will be eating it, I use onion powder vs. onions because for some folks the fresh cut, raw onions are too strong or can cause really bad heartburn. By cutting the onion slices in long, thin strips and letting it chill for, no less than, a couple hours, it allows the sour cream or yogurt to work on the onions and make them a little more palatable and the overall dish even more flavorful.

THANKS CASSIE!!!

By: Z E Johnson

Z E Johnson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:23:12 +0000

Nice. Another simple variation is to make the dressing out of a little mayo, or yogurt, or sour cream and a little fruit juice apricot, peach or pear work best.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:16:42 +0000

In reply to Kat. Oooh! Fascinating!