Sour Cream Cucumber Salad

Name: Sour Cream Cucumber Salad (Tarator)
Yield: Makes About 2 Cups
Cuisine: Southern Europe
Ingredients: 1 clove garlic, minced; Coarse salt (kosher or sea); Coarse salt (kosher or sea); Coarse salt (kosher or sea); 2 medium-size cucumbers; Freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar; ½ cup sour cream; ¼ large red onion, finely diced; 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley or dill

Tarator

Preparation info

Makes About
2 Cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

About

Cucumber salads turn up often around Planet Barbecue. The Kosovar-Serb version goes by the name tarator (not to be confused by a Middle Eastern sesame sauce, which is also called tarator) and features a sour cream dressing.

Ingredients

2 medium-size cucumbers
1 clove garlic, minced
Coarse salt (kosher or sea)

Europe
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Using a vegetable peeler, remove the cucumber peel in lengthwise strips, leaving thin strips of skin intact (the overall effect will be striped). Cut the cucumbers in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds with a melon baller or spoon. Cut each cucumber half crosswise into ¼ inch-thick slices.
Place the garlic and ½ teaspoon of salt in the bottom of an attract