My chopped tomato, cucumber and onion salad, tossed in a light-weight and simple dressing, is such an ideal summer time facet. It significantly goes with nearly every part!
I’m all the time so completely satisfied to have this summery salad in our fridge. This tomato cucumber onion salad retains within the fridge for two to three days. Because it sits, the juices from the tomatoes, onion, and cucumber mingle with the dressing, making it style even higher.
I like the juices on the backside of the bowl a lot that I eat them with a spoon. I additionally love our cherry tomato salad and this creamy cucumber salad impressed by our homemade tzatziki sauce.
Key Elements
- Cucumber: I favor English or Hothouse cucumbers for this salad since they’ve thinner pores and skin and don’t require eradicating any seeds. Smaller Persian cucumbers are additionally good. I additionally use these varieties when making my easy cucumber salad.
- Tomato: Any recent, ripe tomato works for this salad. I used a combined field of cherry tomatoes within the video and photographs. So fairly!
- Onion: Use a candy onion on this salad. Search for Walla Walla candy onions, or strive Vidalia. The sweeter kinds of onion add crunch with out overpowering the salad.
- Parsley: This chopped salad is impressed by tabbouleh, a scrumptious salad in style throughout the Center East that makes use of a beneficiant quantity of parsley. You should utilize flat-leaf or curly parsley, though I discover it simpler to cut the curly parsley into tiny bits for this salad.
- Straightforward dressing: My straightforward salad dressing is just like what I exploit when making my orzo pasta salad or this easy chickpea salad. Begin with vinegar (or use recent lemon), then whisk in a little bit of Dijon mustard, honey, salt, pepper, and olive oil. It’s recent and light-weight and works superbly with the juices from the chopped tomatoes and cucumber. For a vegan dressing, substitute the honey for maple syrup or agave nectar.
What to Serve with Chopped Cucumber Tomato Salad
The choices for serving this colourful tomato cucumber and onion salad are actually countless. I like to spoon it generously over scrambled eggs. It’s also possible to incorporate it into lunch or dinner by stirring it into rice, quinoa, or different cooked grains or utilizing it as a flavorful topping for baked trout, skillet chicken, or baked pork chops.
This salad also can add a burst of coloration and crunch to extra substantial salads, making them much more scrumptious. For a fairly appetizer or snack, strive spooning it over creamy hummus and serving it with homemade pita. You possibly can add it to chilly soups like gazpacho or get pleasure from it on prime of grilled bread like tomato bruschetta. I’ve even served it as a recent salsa with homemade tortilla chips. I like this salad a lot!
Chopped Cucumber Tomato Salad
This straightforward chopped cucumber, tomato and onion salad is harking back to tabbouleh made with diced tomatoes, cucumbers and many parsley. For the dressing, use vinegar or recent lemon juice. Since we add uncooked onions to the salad, the sweeter your onions, the higher. If yow will discover them, strive Walla Walla onions or Vidalia onions.
Makes about 6 cups
Watch Us Make the Recipe
You Will Want
1 lengthy English cucumber or 3 Persian cucumbers, chopped small
1 pound tomatoes, chopped small
1/4 giant candy onion, chopped small (1 cup chopped)
1 cup recent parsley leaves, chopped
2 tablespoons pink wine vinegar, lemon juice or a mix
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon honey, non-obligatory
Salt and recent floor black pepper
Instructions
1Add chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, onion, and parsley to a big bowl.
2Whisk the vinegar (or lemon juice), olive oil, mustard, and honey till blended in a liquid measuring jug or medium bowl.
3Season the dressing with salt and recent floor black pepper (I usually use about 1/2 teaspoon of high quality sea salt).
4Pour the dressing over the salad and toss. Style and regulate with extra salt and pepper as wanted.
5Serve or cowl and preserve within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Stir to redistribute the dressing earlier than serving.
Adam and Joanne’s Ideas
- Cucumbers: I favor English, hothouse, and Persian varieties since they’ve skinny skins, and you don’t want to scrape out seeds. For normal backyard cucumbers, use 2 medium and peel and scrape out the seeds earlier than chopping and including to the salad.
- Vegan salad: Substitute the honey for maple syrup or agave nectar.
- The vitamin details supplied under are estimates.
Vitamin Per Serving
Serving Measurement
1/2 cup
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Energy
45
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Whole Fats
2.7g
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Saturated Fats
0.4g
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Ldl cholesterol
0mg
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Sodium
108.5mg
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Carbohydrate
5.2g
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Dietary Fiber
1.1g
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Whole Sugars
2.4g
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Protein
1.3g
