Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, cucumber ~ tomato salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first 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:
- Get The salad dressing …
- Make ready sugar
- Get red wine vinegar
- Make ready olive oil
- Get lemon juice
- Take salt, pepper, and dried thyme
- Take cucumbers, peeled, halved, and seeded
- Prepare plum tomatoes, halved and seeded
- Make ready medium onion (red or yellow), sliced
- Get fresh basil (or mint)
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.
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