Name: How to Make the Perfect Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Ingredients: 1 Large Cucumber; 1 8oz. package Grape Tomatoes; 1/3 Medium Red Onion, diced; 3 oz. Italian Dressing

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Perfect Tomato and Cucumber Salad

Can you smell summertime? This perfect tomato and cucumber salad smells like summertime to me. My Mom used to call it just summer salad. Made with ingredients fresh from the garden, and perfectly chilled to go with dinner.

Fresh, crisp cucumbers with juicy tomatoes and a touch of red onion. Drizzled with some quick, homemade vinaigrette dressing. this is a fantastic salad. It goes with just about any barbecue dish for a fantastic summer dinner party.

This perfect tomato and cucumber salad is a must for summertime. It’s light and crisp, super flavorful, and good for you too. Especially great when your garden has produced too many tomatoes.

How to Make This Perfect Summer Salad

Begin by picking up some fresh cucumbers, either regular or English will work nicely. I prefer lemon cucumbers myself, and they work really well if cut small enough. Cucumbers are rather versatile, but the main thing is that you want them to be firm so they hold up the crunch of this salad

Garden fresh tomatoes is the next ingredient. You can use cherry or grape tomatoes that are cut in half. Wedges of Roma tomatoes work really well when paired with wedges of lemon cucumber. The goal is to have everything bite sized, so prepare accordingly.

I like a little red onion in this salad. It gives a boost of color and an amazing flavor. You don’t want to overpower the dish, so use about a quarter of the amount of cucumber and tomato and slice it really thin to form nice thin strips.

You can use just about any Italian dressing. I am a huge fan of packets that you just mix with water and vinegar over bottled varieties. Even better is to make fresh Italian dressing from scratch. Easy to pick your favorite cucumber, tomato and dressing.

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