As the days start warming up and Lent is nearing it's end, such recipes are welcome additions to the Easter Table, picnics, and warm weather days. Because I am becoming very impatient for winter to end, I am starting to make such dishes off and on, to remind myself that summer is coming.
Ingredients:
3 Cucumbers (I used 2 European Cucumbers instead this time)
Salt
2-4 tablespoons Sour Cream
1-2 Chives or 1/2 small Sweet Onion, diced finely
Salt, Pepper, Sugar and White or Apple Vinegar to taste
Peel cucumbers, if you like *. Depending on your family's preference, you might julienne, dice in 1/2" to 1" cubes, or slice thinly using a mandolin slicer.
In a dish, layer cucumbers with pinch of salt between layers. Allow to sit for 1/2 hour to an hour so that the salt can draw out the moisture from the cucumbers.
In a colander, rinse under cold water well, squeezing cucumbers to remove extra moisture (I don't squeeze them, but this is how "Buzia" did it).
In a bowl, combine the Sour Cream with the Pepper, Sugar, and Vinegar. Mix with Cucumbers.
Taste to see if any Salt is needed. Serve with bread and Chicken or Pork.
Smacznego!
* If cucumbers tend to upset your stomach, peel and also remove seeds,as this works for some people.
5 comments:
Love cucumbers in salads of all kinds. This looks yummy, similar to one my hub makes but of course his involves lots of dill. He also makes a cuke salad with tomatoes, sunflower oil, salt and a squeeze of lemon. Curious if sunflower oil used in Polish cooking as much as it seems to be in Russian?
WOW...........in my 61 years i have never seen a recipe as close to Babusha's cucumbers & vinegar as this one. i usually eat this every Spring until i get burned out. Then, i start over again next Spring. I don't even have a recipe for it, i just throw it together to taste. Here are the ingredients: cucumbers (peeled and sliced thinly), salt, pepper, half and half, white vinegar, sugar. i like mine sweet. Daddy did not like his quite so sweet. i like to eat mine with boiled or mashed potatoes and chicken.
Stephanie, yes, Poles use sunflower oil in their recipes. Instead of the GMO oils: "vegetable oil" (soybean oil), Canola oil or Corn oil. Much healthier for you :)
And yes, normally it's made with dill. I have two versions my family does. This is my husband's third generation Polish American grandmothers recipe, not my family's. I will share that another time. Thank you for your kind feedback!
Oh this looks yumms!
OMG! Uwielbiam mizerię!!! It's such a simple and yet so delicious dish!!!
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