Make this sour cream salad dressing flavoured with dill and pour it over lettuce for a traditional German spring salad.
My favourite and my family's favourite is a salad dressing that is a bit sweet and sour and flavoured with dill, preferably fresh. Below it's shown as a side to German cabbage rolls and oven-roasted mashed potatoes.
This dressing, and variations of it, are traditional for a Cucumber Salad, but tastes so great on a lettuce salad as well.
An important note to remember when making a lettuce salad is to make sure you wash the lettuce carefully. Then, it needs to be dried. Use either a salad-spinner or paper towels. If water remains on the lettuce leaves, it will dilute the cream sauce.
Fresh lettuce. Fresh dill. What says "Spring" better than that?
Lettuce Salad with Dill Dressing
Ingredients:
1 head lettuce, washed
1 lemon
1 1/2 cups sour cream
sugar, salt, pepper
1 bunch of dill, chopped finely
Instructions:
Tear lettuce into bite-sized pieces.
Grate lemon before juicing it.
In a small bowl, mix the grated lemon peel, about 4 tbsp. lemon juice, sour cream, dill, and about 2 - 3 tbsp. sugar. Season with salt and pepper.
Pour dressing over salad, toss, and serve immediately.
Serves 4.
Hints:
Don't have a whole lemon? Use about 4 tbsp. lemon juice instead and omit the grated peel.
Instead of sour cream, use plain yogurt.
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