Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad

Name: Creamy Dill Cucumber Salad
Yield: Serves 4 as a side dish
Ingredients: 3 , medium cucumbers; 1/2 , medium red onion, sliced thin; , Salt and ground black pepper; 1 cup, sour cream; 3 tablespoons, cider vinegar; 1 teaspoon, granulated sugar; 1/4 cup, minced fresh dill

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1997, America's Test Kitchen TV

No matter how you dress them, a preliminary salting and draining of sliced cucumbers maximizes their crunchy texture.

SERVES4 as a side dish

TIME20 minutes, plus 1 hour draining

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a cucumber salad recipe with good crunch, we found that weighting salted cucumbers forced more water from them than salting alone. After many tests, we determined that one to three hours worked best for our cucumber salad recipe: Even a...

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