This tasty cucumber tomato salad is the perfect summer side dish to accompany your backyard BBQ. The easy homemade marinade is a flavorful balance of tangy and sweet. It takes only minutes to chop veggies and stir together, but it tastes best of left to marinade for an hour or so before serving.
Quick Look at the Recipe
- ⏱️ Prep Time: 15 minutes
- 🥗Marinating Time: 1 hour
- ⌛ Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- 🍽️ Servings: 8
- 🔥 Calories: 96 kcal
- 🥒 Perfect for BBQ side dish, Father's Day or 4th of July party.
- ✅ Difficulty: Easy
- 🍳 Serving Suggestions: Pair with Savory Grilled Chicken, Homemade Scalloped Potatoes and Icebox Blueberry Cheesecake for a simple and delicious backyard BBQ!
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Key Ingredients
Tomatoes. For best flavor, I like to use garden-ripe tomatoes. If you don't have a garden, stop by a local Farmer's Market to pick out some fresh produce. It will taste so much better!
Cucumbers. I purchase either the mini cukes in a bag at the grocery store, or the long English cucumbers. I find these two types to be crunchy and seedless.
Onion. I use yellow or red onions. Use whatever kid you have. Green onions are tasty, too!
Olive oil. Whatever you use for cooking works fine. I like the cold-pressed organic but I use cheaper brands too. You can use any mild cooking oil if you don't have olive oil.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients an quantities.
How to make Cucumber Tomato Onion Salad
- Step 1: Slice or chop all vegetables. I like to chop the vegetables fairly small. It makes the salad easier to eat, and lets the marinade distribute better. I slice all the veggies about 1/4 - 1/3 inch thick.
- Step 2: The dressing is very easy to prepare. Just add all ingredients to a small dish and stir till sugar is dissolved. Pour the dressing over the vegetables, and stir well.
- Step 3: Pour the dressing over the vegetables.
- Step 4: Stir all together well.
- Step 5: The cucumber tomato salad tastes best if it marinades for 1-2 hours before serving. Leftovers keep just fine in the fridge till the following day.
Frequently Asked Questions
A simple dressing of sugar, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper is a winner.
Tomatoes, cucumbers and onions are the three main ingredients, plus a dressing to drizzle over.
Tomato and cucumber salad is very healthy, as long as you use a small amount of sugar, or a sugar replacement. The fresh vegetables are full of vitamins and the olive oil and vinegar are also very healthy.
Chef's Tips
- While fresh produce tastes the very best, this salad tastes great with whatever you can get.
- Add some fresh mozzarella and chopped basil for a delicious Italian twist.
- Add a splash of Balsamic vinegar or some fresh mozzarella for a different flavor profile.
- You don't need to use exact quantities. If you have fewer cucumbers, or you like more onion, then by all means adjust!
- The dressing is more of a marinade. You stir it occasionally the first hour, so every piece gets coated several times to soak up that flavor. But most of the dressing sits on the bottom of the dish, so no worries of there's fewer vegetables than the recipe calls for.
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Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Ingredients
- 3 large tomatoes
- 3 medium cucumbers
- 1/2 medium onion
- 3 TBL olive oil
- 3 TBL sugar
- 3 TBL Vinegar
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Slice cucumbers, tomatoes, ad onions into 1/4-inch slices or small chunks.
- Stir together the oil, sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper until sugar is dissolved.
- Pour marinade over the vegetables and stir well. Cover and let rest in the fridge for 2 hours before serving.
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