Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad Recipe

This Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad Recipe is an easy side dish recipe to make for spring entertaining. It takes minimal ingredients and can feed a crowd. It’s also a welcomed side dish during hot weather since it is so refreshing too!

It comes together in minutes and the additional flavors the snap peas and radishes provide are such a welcomed springtime treat! 

Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad Recipe topped with a nasturtium flower garnish

Recipe Pairing Ideas:

Creamy Cucumber Salad with Dill on Plate

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What Type of Cucumbers Are Best? 

Personally, I prefer English cucumbers for this recipe because they have minimal seeds and their skin is lightweight, and unwaxed for preservation. This allows you the ability to keep the skin on, which I think adds a lot of nice color to your salad.

English Cucumbers resting on cutting board

Step #1: Slice Cucumbers with a Mandoline

A mandoline will create nice, even slices of cucumber for your cucumber salad. I think the presentation is so much nicer this way, and frankly, it’s quicker too!

English cucumbers being sliced in a mandoline

For ease in slicing be sure to cut the cucumbers in half and use at least 3 full-size cucumbers. This will yield enough to serve at least 6 people.

A pile of sliced cucumbers on a cutting board

Step #2: Add the Mix-Ins

For the best-ever creamy cucumber salad, you’ll add some sour cream, salt and pepper, fresh dill and sliced radishes, and sugar snap peas.

Mixing snap peas, radishes and cucumbers with sour cream

The additional veggies make this cucumber salad a bit more gourmet and unexpected. It’s also a nice flavor combination between the coolness of the cucumber, the sweetness of the snap pea, and the spiciness of the radish.

Step# 3: Toss gently to coat

Toss the salad gently so that you don’t damage the cucumbers since they are a bit fragile when sliced so thinly.

Cucumbers, radishes and snap peas mixed with sour cream

Step# 4: Transfer to a Platter and Garnish 

This salad is really pretty on a summer buffet table, garnished with an edible flower. I love the color contrast between the green of the salad and the electric orange of the edible nasturtium blossom, but you could also use an edible marigold or pansy.

You can find edible flowers in the produce section of your better grocery store.

Cucumber Dill Salad Recipe on a plate garnished with a nasturtium

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Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad Recipe

Yield: serves 6
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes

A great salad for spring or summer entertaining! So refreshing and delicious.

Ingredients

  • 3 English Cucumbers
  • 4 radishes
  • 2 cups (300 g) Sugar Snap Peas
  • Salt and Pepper to taste
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) light sour cream
  • 1 tbsp (15 ml) fresh dill, minced
  • Edible Flower garnish

Instructions

  1. Slice cucumbers and radishes into thin disks using a sharp knife or mandolin. Keep the skins on for a pretty presentation. Place in a large bowl.  Add snap peas
  2. Add sour cream, dill, salt and pepper. Gently toss to coat.
  3. Transfer salad to a serving bowl, garnish with an edible flower such as a nasturtium, pansy or marigold (found in the produce section of better supermarkets)
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 17Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 53mgCarbohydrates: 4gFiber: 1gSugar: 2gProtein: 1g
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