Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, cucumber ~ tomato salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cucumber ~ tomato salad using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad:
- Make ready The salad dressing …
- Prepare 2 Tbs. sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil
- Take 1 Tsp. lemon juice
- Prepare Dash salt, pepper, and dried thyme
- Make ready 3 cucumbers, peeled, halved, and seeded
- Make ready 6 plum tomatoes, halved and seeded
- Make ready 1/2 medium onion (red or yellow), sliced
- Prepare 4 Tbs. fresh basil (or mint)
Season with salt and ground pepper. Tomato Cucumber Salad is a classic Mediterranean inspired salad that's light, refreshing, and makes the perfect side to so many meals. You'll love the combination of fresh tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, red onion, tangy vinegar, and savory herbs. This easy salad is made with sliced cucumbers & juicy tomatoes and enhanced with slivers of red onion and a tangy vinaigrette dressing.
Instructions to make Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad:
- Place the sugar, red wine vinegar, olive oil, and lemon juice in a measuring cup. Add salt, pepper and thyme. Mix well with a small spoon until the sugar dissolves and set aside. [Key: adjust ingredient measurements to personal taste]
- On a cutting board, slice the ends of the cucumbers. Next peel the cucumbers, then slice lengthwise evenly in half, and scoop out seed-pulp with a spoon. Set aside.
- Slice off tomatoes tops then slice lengthwise in half, and scoop out pulp as well. Slice the cucumbers and tomatoes in 1/2” slices. Place them all in a large bowl.
- Cut the onion in half crosswise. [Reserve one 1/2 for another use] Cut the remaining onion’s end off and peel back one layer of the skin. Slice the onion in half crosswise leaving two pieces. Turn the pieces, cut thin slices, yielding half-moon shaped slices.
- Add the onion slices to the bowl and turn these ingredients over a few times with a large spoon. Add the basil on top.
- Mix the salad dressing well (again) and pour evenly on top. Turn the ingredients over 2-3 times and place the bowl (covered) in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours to marinate. [Turn a few times while refrigerated]
- With a slotted spoon, place the salad ingredients in small bowls and enjoy with your favorite main meal.
You'll love the combination of fresh tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, red onion, tangy vinegar, and savory herbs. This easy salad is made with sliced cucumbers & juicy tomatoes and enhanced with slivers of red onion and a tangy vinaigrette dressing. Potlucks salads are one of my favorite things to bring to a BBQ. They're easy, quick and always loved by all. This cucumber tomato salad is a favorite, as well as broccoli salad with bacon, pasta salad, macaroni salad and potato salad.
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