Today I’m sharing a super easy side dish that we enjoy throughout spring and summer months: Cucumber Tomato Salad.
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I was browsing through some old Facebook pictures that I posted on my personal page last year, and saw where I posted a cell phone pic of this recipe for cucumber tomato salad before I started the blog.
I just love fresh cucumbers. My Mom has a green thumb to die for and always shares her organic fresh veggies and fruits with me.
This is her yard and greenhouse. Good darn thing they are just out of the city limits and have a well for their water supply. I don’t think they’d be able to afford a city water bill! LOL 🙂
All there is to this recipe is slicing some cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions and chopping some basil…
Then making a vinaigrette dressing with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, red wine vinegar, dill weed, sugar, salt and pepper. Drizzle it over the salad. Waalaa.
I hope you enjoy this awesome little salad as much as we do!
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- Approximately 3 cups peeled & sliced cucumbers
- 3 Roma tomatoes, sliced into chunks
- ⅓ cup chopped red onion
- ¼ cup chopped fresh basil
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ¾ cup apple cider vinegar
- ½ tablespoon red wine vinegar
- ½ teaspoon dill weed
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt (or to taste)
- ¼ teaspoon pepper (or to taste)
- Place salad ingredients in large bowl and toss.
- Mix dressing ingredients in small bowl; stir to combine well & drizzle over salad.
Do you love vegetable salads as much as I do? Here are more for you to make!
Corn, Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Creamy Cucumber and Tomato Salad
I love this salad…I have been making it for years…so yummy with fresh homegrown tomatos…when I lived in TN and could get the TN tomato it was even better!!! I make a great summer pasta that is super easy with lots of tomatos and basil…love basil with tomatos
I make this salad also but mine is a little different, I don’t use basil, and my vinaigrette, is a little different but very delicious.
Would you share your delicious vinaigrette recipe?
simple delicious:) We have this salad in Iran as a Salad Shirazi.
So I came across the picture of your mama’s garden while searching for garden pictures, and I have to say its very nice. OMG I would be in heaven if I had a greenhouse too!
Hoping to get one soon! I love gardening and eating all the fresh veggies and fruit.
OMG!!! LUV! You just made my day! I have had this and I have tried a few ways of making it without really knowing but it just never tasted the same!! You make me wanna get my butt out there in the garden and plant all the cukes and tomatoes I can!! Soo happy I came across this!!! O and BTW….take the skins from the cukes and rub on your skin!! what a nice refresher!!
This may be a silly question, but do these ingredients just make one serving?
Hi Amber! This recipe serves approximately 4. Hope you enjoy it!
Do you actually use that much vinegar ( 1 1/4 cup)? Seems like a lot compared to only 1/4 cup of olive oi.
Hi Bonnie! That is how I make it and like the taste of the dressing on the vinegar side. I”d add more olive oil or less vinegar to suit it to your personal taste… hope you enjoy it!
The recipe calls for 3/4 c apple cider vinegar and one half of a tablespoon. NOT 1 1/4 c. Vinegar. That would be alot!!
We added Feta as well….So so good. Thanks for the recipe.
Thanks, Stacey… glad you enjoyed it. Happy 4th of July!
Can you use dried basil if you can’t get fresh basil? Just wondering if you’ve ever made it that way.
Hi Brittany, yes you can! I prefer it with fresh basil, though. I wouldn’t use as much because it won’t be loosely packed. Adjust the amount to your taste.
All saved recipes in my recipe box are WOW ! Thanks for being blond and gourmet!
Thank you Juliette! 🙂
Can this be refrigerate and eaten later or will it get soggy as it seems like a lot of liquid at the bottom. The recipe is great by the way its my second time making it 🙂
Hi Angela, I’ve refrigerated leftovers of this recipe and eaten it the next day and it was fine. So glad you’re enjoying it!!
I think that is so yummy <3
Thanks Gwyneth! 🙂
I love this and make it a lot. I had problems with the cucumbers! I do not digest them well. So now I use raw zucchini and sometimes I add red bell pepper. I love crunch. thanks!
This recipe is delicious! It brought a little summer to our winter table! Thanks for sharing it!
Can you sub out the sugar for stevia?
Amy, my grandmother always had cucumbers & sliced onion rings in apple cider vinegar on the table, I love the spices and fresh basil you’ve added to it. I really enjoy your vegetable salads, I’m diabetic and they’re perfect for a small meal for me…I do try to stay away from corn most of the time and sometimes I swap out beans in your black bean salsa & sometimes add some chunks of avocado to it…
Alison I use stevia as a sugar substitute but I use less stevia than sugar because it tastes sweeter to me…if you’re using the powder sprinkle on a tiny bit first & mix it well & give it a taste test…you can always add more but you can’t deduct it.
This salad, your black bean salsa, your greek summer salad are among my favorites. In your corn salad, I use only half of the can and I add some chopped fresh asparagus. If you wash them well and cut them into a smaller 1/2″ to 3/4″ cut it just adds a great crunch like the onion. Asparagus can be eaten raw & I add a bit more of the red onion, I love onions. When I was a child (eons ago) I would eat veggies from my grandad’s garden raw, now he didn’t have asparagus but aunt Elva & uncle Edgar out in west Texas did, I remember asking him if asparagus could be eaten raw, he cut off one told me to rinse and try it. I love it raw in salads!
Thank you so much for such a lovely variety of veggie salads!
Thank you so much, Margo… You made my day! 🙂
Hi Amy first I have to say what a beautiful garden! Cumber and tomatoes salad is a staple at our family summer get-together. Also my wife and I make this for a quick dinner salad. We do change up the dressing, sometimes using balsamic vinaigrette. If we don’t have good tomatoes we just use cumber, onion and apple cider vinegar with a little h2o.
Thanks so much, Dave! My mom has always had a beautiful garden and I’ve always enjoyed her fresh veggies. I love this salad too and change it up depending on what I have on-hand. You just can’t go wrong with it. Hope you and your family have a great weekend! 🙂
it’s way better with a drizzle of lemon juice, but this salad is perfect for spring and very refreshing !
Thanks, John! Will have to try adding a drizzle of lemon juice next time I make it! 🙂