Cucumber Tomato Salad
This “straight from the garden” side dish is great with any meal. With impactful Greek flavors, we especially love it with a hummus plate and our Greek grilled chicken.
Ingredients
- 6-7 Tomatoes, preferably Romas chopped
- 2 cups Cucumbers, about 2 cucumbers diced, see recipe for peeling suggestion
- ¼-½ Red onion diced
- ¼ cup Olive oil
- 2 Tbsp Lemon juice, about ½ a lemon fresh squeezed is best
- 1 Tbsp Italian seasoning blend
- 1 cup Feta cheese crumbled
- 1 cup Kalamata olives - optional or black olives
- 1 tsp Kosher salt to taste
- ½ tsp Black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Prep the tomatoes, onion and cucumbers. Add them to a medium sized salad bowl as they are ready.
- **I do not peel the cucumber completely. I peel in strips, leaving a strip of peel on the cucumber between strips of peeled cucumber. The peel adds more nutrition and more of a crunch.
- Mix the lemon juice into the olive oil. Pour over the cut-up veggies. Toss it all together with a large spoon till the veggies are evenly coated.
- Add in the seasoning, salt and pepper, feta and olives. Stir all together till well combined.
- Serve up right away. This salad does not keep well. It gets very soggy the longer it sits. It is not a great leftover.