Creamy Tomato-Cucumber Salad

Kittencalskitchen's Note:

This is an easy and delicious recipe to make when you have an overload of garden-fresh cucumbers, I use cherry tomatoes sliced in half since I have an abundance of them from my garden, and I use wine vinegar for this but regular white vinegar will do just fine! You might prefer a sweeter dressing so adjust the sugar and vinegar to taste. I have even added in some small broccoli and/or cauliflower florets to this.

• Total Time: 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 2 small cucumbers (peeled, seeded and cut into 1/4 in slices or chopped)
• 2 small plum tomatoes, chopped
• 1 small red onion, thinly sliced (or use a yellow onion)
• 1 1/2 cups sour cream
• 2 tablespoons sugar (or to taste)
• 1 1/2-2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon dried dill (or to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)

Directions:

1. In a bowl, combine cucumber, chopped tomato and onion; toss to combine.
2. In another bowl combine sour cream, sugar, vinegar, dill and garlic powder (if using) mix well then pour over veggies, and toss to coat.
3. Season with salt and pepper.
4. Cover and chill until serving.

Reviews

[saileyboy]

I added my favorite new ingredient - ground white pepper. Also removed the pulpy seed areas of the tomato. Also used a light sour cream as it doesn't hurt to reduce calories.

[***LunaStar***]

Woke up this morning with a craving for something I'd never had; creamy tomato-cucumber salad. This certainly hit the spot.
I was a little doubtful when seeing the ingredients for the dressing (mainly the sugar and vinegar) but it worked quite nicely. To lower calories a bit, I used 1/2 cup yogurt, and only a 1/4 cup sour cream to total the 3/4 needed for a half recipe. The garlic powder I had also contained parsley, but it tasted really nice with the yogurt sauce. The one thing I may change for next time is to leave the dill out. It seemed a bit unnecessary, and I don't really care for the flavour of dill anyway...but I did leave out the onions, so that may have something to do with it.
Thanks for the recipe, Kittencal!

--Luna

[kittycatmom]

I just loved this, it is so fresh and I used cherry tomatoes from my garden, and red wine vinegar, absolutely delicious! I think this salad gets even better as it chills!! I wouldn't change a thing! Thanks Kitt, great salad!