Hungarian Cucumber Salad & Hungarian Salad Dressing

[keljonma]

These are family recipes that my mom and grandmother used to make.

Hungarian Cucumber Salad & Hungarian Salad Dressing
For 6 people you need

At least 2 large cucumbers
1 cup of Hungarian Salad Dressing (below)
1 T chopped dill

Slice cucumbers paper thin - a potato peeler works well. Put them in a bowl and let them sit at least on hour or overnight covered in dressing. The slices will be limp. Top with dill before serving.

Hungarian Salad Dressing
Makes 1 cup dressing

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 T sugar
1/2 tsp kosher salt
Dash freshly ground black pepper

Blend together in a large glass bowl.

This salad dressing is also great on greens and lettuces.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I grew up with german and polish cucumber salad and then I found a few more versions.
I think this will be a good thread for peole to post their recipe.
Yours sounds good and I'll have to try it.

Tonight ours is.
a bowl full of sliced cucumbers
sprinkled with salt

about 1/4 cup home made yogurt
about 2 tbs of sour cream
a generous sprinkling of freshly ground pepper
and 3 fronds of curly parsley, coarsley chopped.
Mix it all up and let it sit on the counter, stirring it up occasionally, til supper is ready. (approx 1/2 hr or so)

 

[keljonma]

FD, my mom and grandmother used to make a cucumber salad with sour cream, but we didn't have it as often as the recipe I posted.

My dad preferred cucumbers sliced thin in apple cider vinegar with nothing else. And that is how my daughter still eats cucumbers (she was grandpap's girl.)

 

[FarmerDenise]

SO likes thinly sliced cucumbers with seasoned rice vinegar. That's how his mother made it.

 

[keljonma]

That sounds good too! I love cukes!

 

[ORChick]

These are family recipes that my mom and grandmother used to make.

Hungarian Cucumber Salad & Hungarian Salad Dressing
For 6 people you need

At least 2 large cucumbers
1 cup of Hungarian Salad Dressing (below)
1 T chopped dill

Slice cucumbers paper thin - a potato peeler works well. Put them in a bowl and let them sit at least on hour or overnight covered in dressing. The slices will be limp. Top with dill before serving.

Hungarian Salad Dressing
Makes 1 cup dressing

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 T sugar
1/2 tsp kosher salt
Dash freshly ground black pepper

Blend together in a large glass bowl.

This salad dressing is also great on greens and lettuces.

This looks very similar to what my German MIL made - though for DH I would use less vinegar. He doesn't "do" sour (and I find that the older I get the more I like that tart taste - well, they say that opposites attract )

 

[big brown horse]

Sounds wonderful!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Wifezilla]

Yummy recipes people!!!

I made the sour cream version last week. I was lucky to get any...I guess that must mean my hubby liked it

I need to make more. This time I will make it with yogurt.