We are all used to dressing salads with mayonnaise, and few people now make these snacks with other sauces. Sour cream is an excellent seasoning for salads with fish, fruits, cucumbers and other products. But why is it not as popular as mayonnaise? Most likely, this is due to the fact that sour cream is a more expensive product, and there are more calories in it. This article contains the most popular salad recipes with this supplement. Each culinary specialist will be able to choose something to their liking.
Soviet "Olivier"
To the standard set of products you need to add a few boiled carrots, as well as 100 g of sour cream.
Traditionally, we boil all vegetables: potatoes and carrots, as well as chicken eggs. After they cool, they need to be cleaned and cut into cubes. The doctor’s sausage and pickles are cut using the same technology. Do not forget to add green peas. At the end of the salad you need to season with sour cream and mayonnaise. If desired, you can salt a little. Although often enough salt gives cucumbers and sausages.
Salad with quail eggs and salmon
A very interesting recipe and an unusual combination of products. But, despite this, the taste of the dish is pleasant.
Ingredients:
- 250 g of slightly salted salmon;
- sour cream for dressing;
- twelve quail eggs;
- green onions and dill;
- three fresh cucumbers.
Cooking:
Quail eggs should be boiled beforehand so as not to waste time on this when you are preparing the salad. Salmon should be cut into medium-sized pieces. Peel and dice boiled eggs. Fresh cucumbers need to be washed well and get rid of the peel, and then cut into the same cubes as the eggs. Now all the ingredients are ready to be mixed and seasoned with sour cream. In addition, you can put chopped greens and salt, if necessary.
Walford salad
In world restaurants, this salad is put in second place after Caesar. This recipe for fruit salad with sour cream was invented in 1896 in one of the American restaurants.
Ingredients:
- one hundred grams of fresh cherries;
- one hundred grams of mayonnaise;
- the same amount of sour cream;
- one teaspoon of sugar;
- two tablespoons of lemon juice;
- two medium-sized green apples;
- a pound of celery root;
- one hundred grams of red grapes;
- some walnuts;
- salt and black pepper to taste.
To prepare this salad, it is preferable to use homemade mayonnaise. And then mix it with sour cream and lemon juice with a whisk. In the resulting mass you need to grate celery. Remember to clean it. Apples also need to be freed from green skins and cut into small cubes. And grapes and cherries just cut in half. It is advisable to peel them. The resulting salad can only be salted, add a little ground pepper and walnuts. It is best to serve it on the table where white wine is present. A very original fruit salad with sour cream, which was recognized all over the world many years ago.
Squid salad
We mix cucumbers with sour cream and squid in a salad. The recipe is very popular with many housewives and often becomes one of the permanent dishes on the festive table.
The composition includes three boiled chicken eggs and one kilogram of squid. As well as two fresh cucumbers and one onion. For dressing, take sour cream. If desired, you can add a little salt.
As usual, squids need to be cleaned of the film. In order to make this process easier, they can be doused with boiling water. Then the film is removed very easily and quickly. The peeled squid needs to be boiled. They are put in boiling water and kept on fire for no more than four minutes from the moment of boiling. If you digest, then the meat will be very tough.
Now all the ingredients are enough to cut and season with sour cream. If necessary, add salt.
Rustic salad
This includes exclusively natural products that can be collected at any suburban area.
Ingredients:
- a pound of white cabbage;
- three beets;
- one bunch of green onions and dill;
- a glass of sour cream;
- one tablespoon of mustard;
- some olive oil;
- salt and pepper to taste.
It is necessary to finely chop the cabbage, and then crush it with fists. This is done so that she gives juice. Depressed cabbage needs to be salted and pepper to taste and put for thirty minutes to insist.
While the cabbage is infused, you have time to cook the beets. Do not forget to slightly salt the water. The finished beets must be cooled, peeled and cut into thin strips. Grind greens.
Now you can mix all the vegetables and herbs and season with the sauce. The sauce is prepared as follows: sour cream, olive oil and mustard are thoroughly mixed. You can use a whisk so that the mass is uniform. Seasoned salad should be a little infused and ready to eat.
Cottage Cheese Salad
To prepare this salad with sour cream, the recipe of which will be described later, you will need only fifteen minutes. It can even be used as an independent dish. It will be a hearty lunch and at the same time a light dinner. It is especially good for cooking in the summer, when you want something light and unusual.
You will need one hundred grams of fresh tomatoes, sweet pepper and cucumbers. And also take one onion and two cloves of garlic, one carrot. For dressing: one hundred grams of cottage cheese and sour cream.
Carrots and garlic need to be grated, and all other products simply cut into small cubes. Mix all the ingredients and season with cottage cheese and sour cream. You can salt and add a little black pepper. And now a simple salad with sour cream is ready.
Potato salad
This is one of the recipes for delicious salads with sour cream. It is prepared in just thirty minutes, although it contains many products.
Ingredients:
- one teaspoon of salt and two tablespoons of mustard;
- one tablespoon;
- two tablespoons of olive oil;
- 150 grams of sour cream;
- two tablespoons of mayonnaise and balsamic vinegar;
- kilogram of potatoes;
- shallots - 4 pieces;
- two stalks of celery;
- about a hundred grams of Roquefort cheese;
- one clove of garlic;
- a bunch of green onions;
- black pepper.
To cook potatoes, it is better to use a double boiler. Place the washed and peeled potatoes in a bowl and cover, slightly salt. Potatoes are cooked for at least 25 minutes. In a separate mortar, grind the garlic with salt until a homogeneous mass is obtained, then add mustard, lemon juice, vinegar, oil and mix well again.
In another bowl, mix the mayonnaise and sour cream, and then gradually add the previously prepared garlic mixture there. After that, add a little black pepper and Roquefort cheese to the resulting sauce.
By this time, potatoes are already boiled. If the tubers are too large, then it is better to cut them in half or divide into quarters. Then shift to a large dish in which you plan to serve salad to the table, and pour the dressing. Shredded greens and pieces of shallots are spread on top as decoration. Now you need to mix the dish very carefully so as not to damage the integrity of the potatoes, and add a little cheese.
Ramson salad
An unusual salad that will appeal to any gourmet.
Ingredients:
- one bunch of wild garlic;
- three boiled chicken eggs;
- 120 grams of sour cream;
- salt.
Eggs must first be boiled, peeled and cut into small pieces. The wild garlic needs to be washed well and finely chopped, and then combined with the eggs. Season the resulting mixture with sour cream and salt to taste. Tasty and quick salad with sour cream is ready to eat.
Fruit salad
In the summer I don’t want to cook anything and eat fatty, heavy food, and fruits are what I need. This dish can be reinforced, and even lose a couple of kilograms due to the low calorie salad with sour cream.
Ingredients:
- four ripe juicy peaches;
- one orange;
- about a hundred grams of strawberries and cherries;
- sour cream for dressing;
- two tablespoons of powdered sugar;
- one tablespoon of orange peel;
- cinnamon.
First of all, you need to cook the sauce, which includes orange peel, sour cream, a little cinnamon and powdered sugar. All berries and fruits should be cut into medium-sized pieces and seasoned with the resulting sauce. And now the delicious, nutritious and healthy summer salad is ready.
So we examined the most popular salads with sour cream, the recipes of which should be in the cookbook of every housewife.