Salads with sour cream - 163 cooking recipes

Before mayonnaise became widespread, most salads were dressed with sour cream. Especially the so-called summer or spring ones, with a lot of raw vegetables and herbs that are not heat-treated. In salad recipes with sour cream, it is used as a dressing, which is especially good with fresh, raw foods: tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, onions and green onions, sorrel, lettuce, radishes, carrots, cabbage and so on.

Among those people who are against mayonnaise in any form, there are especially many lovers of sour cream salads. Some believe that by choosing sour cream as a dressing, they not only reduce the amount of calories in the dish, but also make it healthier and healthier. In reality, this is not always the case. However, this departs from the topic of this article.

You can use any sour cream for salads: store-bought, market, homemade, homemade. And any fat content of your choice, from 10 percent to forty. It doesn't require any additional ingredients to become a salad dressing. Just salt and black pepper for taste. You can also choose its quantity, guided by your own preferences: make the salad “swim” in the gravy, getting an appetizing dish in which you can dip the bread. Or leave it “dryer” so that the other components are clearly visible and felt when taking the sample.

It is important to remember that even the thickest sour cream, when interacting with vegetable juices, becomes liquid. But this can be avoided by adding boiled egg yolk or potatoes to the salad. If the indicated products are not in the composition, you can try, after turning them into puree, mixing them with sour cream.