Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, cucumber ~ tomato salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Cucumber ~ Tomato Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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:
- Get The salad dressing …
- Prepare sugar
- Make ready red wine vinegar
- Take olive oil
- Get lemon juice
- Make ready salt, pepper, and dried thyme
- Get cucumbers, peeled, halved, and seeded
- Make ready plum tomatoes, halved and seeded
- Prepare 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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