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Radish and Sour Cream Salad
A classic Russian spring salad of thinly sliced radishes, fresh cucumber, and green onion with hard-boiled egg, dressed generously with cold sour cream and fresh dill. It comes together in minutes and is served right away while the vegetables stay crisp.
15 min 110 kcal 4 serves Easy🌿Vegetarian🇷🇺Russia★★★★★4.6
Ingredients
ServingsMetric
- 300 gradishes
- 200 gcucumber
- 3 wholeeggs
- 4 tbspgreen onion
- 3 tbspfresh dill
- 150 gsour cream
- ½ tspsalt
- ¼ tspblack pepper
Method
- Hard-boil the eggs for 10 minutes, cool in cold water, peel, and dice or quarter.
- Slice the radishes into thin rounds. Slice the cucumber into thin half-moons; if the seeds are watery, scrape them out first.
- Finely chop the green onion and dill.
- Combine the radishes, cucumber, eggs, green onion, and most of the dill in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add the sour cream and fold gently to coat. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
- Serve right away, scattered with the remaining dill.
FAQ
Radish is the first vegetable ready in the kitchen garden at the start of the season. On Soviet dachas it was the first salad of the new year: radish, dill, and green onion straight from the plot, dressed with sour cream.
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