Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad
Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cucumber ~ tomato salad using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad:
  1. Take The salad dressing …
  2. Take 2 Tbs. sugar
  3. Take 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
  4. Prepare 1/4 cup olive oil
  5. Get 1 Tsp. lemon juice
  6. Make ready Dash salt, pepper, and dried thyme
  7. Make ready 3 cucumbers, peeled, halved, and seeded
  8. Make ready 6 plum tomatoes, halved and seeded
  9. Make ready 1/2 medium onion (red or yellow), sliced
  10. Take 4 Tbs. fresh basil (or mint)

Serve cucumber tomato onion salad next to grilled or roasted meats or fish, such as marinated beef or chicken kabobs, grilled salmon, or pork tenderloin. Whisk water, vinegar, oil, sugar, salt, and pepper together in a large bowl until smooth; add cucumbers, tomatoes, and onion and stir to coat. A refreshing, light salad for any hot, humid summer day! A great main dish for vegetarians, as well.

Instructions to make Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad:
  1. 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]
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Add the onion slices to the bowl and turn these ingredients over a few times with a large spoon. Add the basil on top.
  6. 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]
  7. With a slotted spoon, place the salad ingredients in small bowls and enjoy with your favorite main meal.

The basil may be substituted with fresh parsley or mint. Be sure to make this salad just before serving. Creamy Cucumber Tomato Salad Creamy Cucumber Tomato Salad. This easy cucumber and tomato salad tastes like summertime in a bowl. The dressing is light and zingy from the vinegar, the cucumbers and onion are so pleasantly crunchy you can't stop eating them, and the tomatoes are so juicy and sweet they burst in your mouth.

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