Grandma's Cucumbers in Sour Cream

Grandma's Cucumbers in Sour Cream ~ Two very simple ingredients + the time to slice some cucumbers is all it takes to make this dish.  Straight from Grandma's recipe box, you truly couldn't ask for an easier, more classic summer side.
CLICK HERE TO PIN THIS FOR LATER

Who's got a mess of cucumbers coming from their garden?

I absolutely adore those little garden-fresh, tender-skinned cucumbers ... so much better than the big, wax-covered ones we typically get in the grocery store.  While I certainly enjoy "big" grocery store cucumbers, they just don't hold a candle to the smaller, home-grown garden variety.

And there are so many simple ways to enjoy those little garden-fresh tender-skinned cucumbers, too.  My favorite probably being with just a tiny sprinkling of salt.  I can remember my Mom cutting fresh cucumbers into sticks and sprinkling them just ever-so-slightly with salt, and serving them up as a tasty snack or summer side dish.  I could just never get enough.

Straight from Grandma's recipe box, you truly couldn't ask for an easier, more classic summer side.

Fresh cucumbers are also fabulous sliced and soaked for just a few minutes in a little dose of vinegar.  Or, marinated for several days in the refrigerator to make Fresh Cucumber Pickles.  Or as a simple little cucumber and onion salad.  But if you want to get just a tad bit fancier?  Try cucumbers in a wonderful Creamy Cucumber Salad with fresh herbs or tasty Cucumber, Tomato & Avocado Salad dressed with a fun citrus and honey vinaigrette.

But of all the simple ways to enjoy cucumbers, do you want to know one I had never heard of until just a few years ago?

Cucumbers in sour cream!  Just as my husband's Grandma used to prepare.

And let me just tell you, this is truly one of the simplest recipes around.

I was introduced to Cucumbers in Sour Cream by my then future mother-in-law just a bit after I had met my husband.  

My mother-in-law has always tended and grown a fairly large garden, that provides her a huge summer harvest of just about everything you can imagine.  And with an entire long row of cucumbers, there seemed to be a never-ending summer crop to enjoy.  She'd just go grab a few to enjoy with dinner (or lunch) just about any time she wanted.

One day early on in my husband's and my dating, we were visiting my mother-in-law for the weekend when she decided to whip up a quick bowl of their family-favorite Cucumbers in Sour Cream to go with dinner.

Well, I had never heard of such a thing.

Cucumber in Sour Cream is quite simply just as it sounds --  thinly sliced cucumbers with a touch of salt and pepper slathered in a big dose of sour cream.  To quote my mother-in-law, "You use right much sour cream."

And quite frankly, I was quite skeptical.  I truly didn't think sour cream and cucumbers would compliment one another very well.

Two very simple ingredients + the time to slice some cucumbers is all it takes to make this dish.

But of course, when you're at your soon-to-be mother-in-law's house for dinner, you dutifully eat at least a little bit of everything  on the dinner table.

Much to my surprise, cucumbers and sour cream do  compliment one another!  In fact they're quite tasty together, and are a wonderful way to enjoy that summer cucumber harvest.  

Light, crunchy, creamy, and just slightly salty.

Truly, all it takes to make this dish is two very simple ingredients plus the time to slice some cucumbers and give them a little stir in a bowl. 

Straight from Grandma's recipe box, you just couldn't ask for an easier summer side than that.

Check out these other tasty fresh summer salads:

• Creamy Cucumber Salad with Fresh Herbs
• Creamy Ranch Cucumber Salad
• Cucumber Tomato & Avocado Salad
• Easy Refrigerator Pickles
• Fresh Green Bean, Walnut, & Feta Salad
• Marinated Summer Vegetable Salad
• Marinated Vidalia Onion Salad
• Roasted Cauliflower Salad
• More salad recipes

Thank you for stopping by The Kitchen is My Playground. We'd love to have you back soon!

easy recipe, cucumber salad recipe, cucumbers with sour cream

Salads

Yield: about 4-6 servings

Author: Tracey | The Kitchen is My Playground

Cucumbers in Sour Cream

Two very simple ingredients + the time to slice some cucumbers is all it takes to make this dish.  Straight from Grandma's recipe box, you truly couldn't ask for an easier, more classic summer side.

prep time: 10 Mcook time: total time: 10 M

ingredients:

• 4 small pickling cucumbers {about 3 c. sliced}
• 1/2 c. sour cream
• 1/8 to ¼ tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. pepper

instructions:

How to cook Cucumbers in Sour Cream

1. Peel cucumbers and slice into thin circles.
2. In a medium-sized bowl, combine sour cream, salt, and pepper; stir until well mixed. Add cucumbers and toss until cucumbers are well coated.
3. Serve immediately {cucumbers will begin to get watery fairly quickly if allowed to sit}.

https://www.thekitchenismyplayground.com/2017/08/cucumbers-in-sour-cream.html

Created using The Recipes Generator

You might also enjoy these other summer vegetable salad recipes:

Marinated Summer Vegetable Salad

Make-Ahead Layered Salad {for a Crowd}

Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad

Fresh Green Bean, Walnut & Feta Salad

Marinated Vidalia Onion Salad

Creamy Cucumber Salad with Fresh Herbs

CLICK HERE TO PIN THIS FOR LATER

This post is linked with Weekend Potluck.