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Summertime is the right time for cucumber and tomato salad. This one is dressed with a basic homemade salad dressing. All Reviews for Marinated Cucumber, Onion, and Tomato Salad.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have cucumber ~ tomato salad using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad:
- Make ready The salad dressing …
- Get 2 Tbs. sugar
- Get 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil
- Take 1 Tsp. lemon juice
- Take Dash salt, pepper, and dried thyme
- Get 3 cucumbers, peeled, halved, and seeded
- Take 6 plum tomatoes, halved and seeded
- Prepare 1/2 medium onion (red or yellow), sliced
- Get 4 Tbs. fresh basil (or mint)
A quick and easy side dish it's light, fresh, and full of flavor! This cucumber and tomato salad is easy and delicious. If you can, get your hands on the sunflower oil. It will make this salad taste more like Mama's.
Steps 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.
When I think of summer, this cucumber salad is one of the first things that comes to mind in images so vivid, I'm sure I can actually taste it. Cucumber Tomato Salad pairs well with so many dishes! A summer favorite, this cucumber and tomato salad recipe is delicious and great to make ahead too! The smell of the garden is pretty heady. This cucumber tomato salad is full of fresh sliced cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, red onion and green peppers, all tossed in an herb dressing.
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