What can I do with a lot of left-over sour cream?

Question

I have about 1 1/2 containers (500 ml) of regular sour cream. Does anyone have any good ideas for using it?

Answer 1

SOUR CREAM ICE CREAM

1 1/4 cups sour cream
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups sugar
6 large egg yolks
2 cups whipping cream
1 cup whole milk

Whisk sour cream, powdered sugar, lemon juice and vanilla in small bowl to blend. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. Whisk 1 1/4 cups sugar and yolks in medium bowl to blend. Bring cream and milk to simmer in large saucepan. Gradually whisk hot cream mixture into yolk mixture; return to same saucepan. Stir over medium heat until custard thickens and leaves path on back of spoon when finger is drawn across, about 5 minutes (do not boil). Pour into large bowl. Refrigerate until cool, whisking occasionally, about 45 minutes. Mix in sour cream mixture.

Process custard in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Transfer to bowl; cover and freeze. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep frozen.)


OR


SOUR CREAM MAPLE CAKE WITH LEMON GLAZE

Cake
Nonstick vegetable oil spray
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups sour cream
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/2 cup walnuts, toasted, chopped
1/4 cup plus 1 1/3 cups maple sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
13 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces, room temperature
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Glaze
1 1/3 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel

Whipped cream

For cake:
Preheat oven to 350 F. Butter 9 inch Bundt pan, then spray with nonstick spray. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl. Whisk sour cream and maple syrup in another medium bowl. Mix walnuts, 1/4 cup maple sugar, and cinnamon in small bowl.
Using electric mixer, beat butter and remaining 1 1/3 cups maple sugar in large bowl until fluffy. Gradually beat in eggs and vanilla, occasionally stopping to scrape down sides of bowl. Add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with sour cream mixture in 2 additions. Transfer 2/3 of batter to prepared Bundt pan. Sprinkle with walnut mixture. Pour remaining batter into pan.

Bake cake until tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Cool 20 minutes. Turn out cake onto rack; cool completely.

For glaze:
Whisk first 6 ingredients in medium bowl to blend. Let stand until thickened, about 30 minutes. Pour glaze over cake.
Serve cake with whipped cream.

Answer 2

There are a ton of things you can do with it.

Mix with a package of ranch dressing, veggie soup, or onion soup mix for a great dip for chips or veggies.

Mix in a little lime juice, cilantro and onion for a great sauce for Mexican dishes, like fish tacos, tortilla soup, black beans, or burritos.

Look for recipes that call for sour cream as an ingredient, like stroganoff.

You can make Smashed Potatoes. Roast potatoes in the oven with a little bit of olive oil, salt, pepper, and some chopped fresh herbs, like rosemary or thyme. Once done, throw on some sour cream and mash them a little bit. You just want them soft, but still have big chunks of potato left. It's a great change of pace to your typical everyday mashed potatoes.

Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas are a wonderful dish too. Mix shredded cooked chicken, olives, onions, mushrooms, green chilies, sour cream, 3/4 can of cream of chicken soup together. Fill corn tortillas and roll. Mix remaining chicken soup, sour cream and milk together to form a sauce to pour over top of enchiladas, top with cheese and bake until heated through, and cheese is lightly browned and bubbly.

Answer 3

Well...it can be used in Beef Stroganoff. Of course thats an awful lot of sour cream. You can also make a sour cream cake.Oh wait....I have a cheesecake recipie if you're interested. But you'll need the following:

cream cheese
a graham cracker crust (I get mine store bought)
vanilla extract
sugar
eggs
and of course each 9" cheesecake will require 1 container (16 ounce I think) of sour cream.

Answer 4

Elmira Sour Cream Peach Pie Recipe

Ingredients
Pastry for 9-inch pie
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup commercial thick sour cream
5 cups peaches, peeled and quartered
1/4 cup brown sugar, lightly packed

Instructions
Preheat oven to 450F. Line 9" pie plate with pastry. Trim and flute edges; do NOT prick pastry.

With rotary beater, beat flour, sugar and sour cream (use commercial sour cream from store). Arrange flat edge of peach quarters on pastry in concentric circles. Pour sour cream mixture on top. Bake 15 minutes at 450 degrees F, then lower heat to 350 degrees F and bake 25 to 30 minutes or until filling is set. Sprinkle brown sugar over hot pie. Broil 1 to 2 minutes till sugar is melted. Serve warm.

Yield: 6 servings

Answer 5

I use sour cream as salad dressing. Mix in some salsa, and it's a nice creamy and a little spicy dressing. Low calorie, too!

I like sour cream on almost everything!

Answer 6

You can make a delicious tea ring with it. Which is a brad that looks like a wreath Inside it has raisins,cinnamon,butter and of course brown sugar The recipe is on recipe.com. Good-luck you have many choices to choose from. You made wish you had more sour cream.

Answer 7

Add a package of Lipton Onion Soup mix to the sour cream & you'll have a great chip dip.

Answer 8

Sour Cream Cut Out Cookies

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 1/2 cups cake flour
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the sour cream and vanilla. Stir in baking soda, baking powder and salt; gradually mix in flour to form a dough that is stiff enough to roll out. More or less flour may be necessary.
Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface and cut into shapes using cookie cutters. Place cookies 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm and the center appears dry. Cookies will stay white, so be careful not to overbake.

Sour Cream Pound Cake

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sour cream
3 eggs
1 pinch baking soda
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour a 8x4 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add sour cream and eggs.
Add flour and pinch of soda, mix well. Pour into a 8x4 inch loaf pan.
Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.

Or have burritos, tacos or nachos for dinner.
coat chicken breast with sour cream and then bread crumbs and bake in the oven at 350 for 40 minutes.

Answer 9

shred about 10 lbs. of potatoes, add two eggs, salt & pepper to taste. mix well. drop by heaping tablespoons into oil heated in a skillet (non-stick is best) to medium high heat (375 f, not sure what the c temp conversion would be). fry on each side until golden brown. serve to 10 or so of your closest friends, topped with the sour cream. offer smoked salmon, capers, chopped red onion and a variety of fruit jellies/jams as well. delish!

Answer 10

Use them to make a sour cream coffeee cake(s); I use it to make my mashed potatoes; have a taco party; and put it out for those who like it on tacos; make a taco dip; have baked potatoes, etc etc; I also use it to make fried chicken (for the coating). Go to www.allrecipes.com and put in that particular ingredient. It will come up with a lot of ideas. Here's the cake(s):
SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE

1 cup sugar
½ cup softened butter
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. almond flavoring
1½ cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. soda

Topping:

½ cup pecans or walnuts
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon

Cream one cup sugar, ½ cup softened butter, add 2 eggs, one cup sour cream, one tsp. of almond flavoring.

Mix 1 ½ cups four, 1 tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp. soda. Add to creamed mixture.

Pour ½ of batter divided evenly between two round pans, or one 9 x 13, then half of topping, then rest of batter, and then rest of topping.

I double recipe and get 4 coffee cakes in 8 inch aluminum pans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes although I check center in 20 minutes because ovens vary.

When out of oven sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy!

Answer 11

You can make dessert with it or use it for beef stroganoff. If you need recipes do an ingredient search (sour cream as your ingredient) at allrecipes.com.
Everything with sour cream in it will come up.