Cucumber Tomato Salad

The best of summer produce comes together to make this simple and delicious Cucumber Tomato Salad. This season, donโ€™t let lettuce steal all the credit for good salads! This Cucumber Tomato Salad recipe holds up without any of the leafy green stuff.

Cucumbers, Tomatoes, and Onions tossed with a vinaigrette in a bowl

Colorful cucumber and tomato salad with dill in a bowl

Last weekend we took a couple of hours to plant a small garden, a tradition I refuse to surrender despite my hubby’s insistence that it’s more work than it’s worth. In reality, he’s probably right.

I’ve poured quite a lot of sweat into the soil over the years and found myself cursing my ever-wilting cilantro plant more than once. Yet somehow, when I pluck the first cherry tomato from the vine and bite into its still warm flesh, all the work seems justified for a reward as sweet as this.

Cucumber and tomato salad scooped with spoon

Turning Over A New Leaf

We have a few staples that we plant every year–mostly yellow and red cherry tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, and five or six different herbs. I also try to experiment with one new plant each year. Sometimes this works out great, and sometimes it doesn’t.

The year I planted a tomatillo resulted in a four foot giant overtaking a raised bed and producing enough tomatillos to start our own salsa company. While the plant could certainly be considered a success, we haven’t felt compelled to grow tomatillos since.

This year, I’m trying my hand at growing cucumbers for the first time. The Mr. and I have never been huge cucumber fans, but we’ve recently discovered a mini seedless variety and have since been using them for everything. We love dipping them in creamy homemade hummus, adding them to veggie sandwiches or just piling them on a slice of toast with a little cream cheese and dill. Heavenly.

Cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions tossed together in a bowl with dressing

How To Make Cucumber Tomato Salad

We’ve also been tossing sliced cucumber with fresh tomato slices, shaved red onion, and a splash of vinegar, oil, and dill for one of the easiest and tastiest salads of all time.

I prefer to use white wine or golden balsamic vinegar for the salad, but feel free to switch things up if you’d like. The key is to give the flavors at least 15 minutes to meld together before serving. So, give your favorite slicing knife some exercise, toss everything together, load up the grill, and this cucumber tomato onion salad will be waiting for you! (Thatโ€™s right, Iโ€™m giving love to the onions too).

Cucumbers, Tomatoes, and Onions in a bowl with marinade

How Far Ahead Can I Make Cucumber Salad?

If you are planning ahead, you can make this salad the day before serving, and keep it in the refrigerator. Cucumber, tomato, and onion are best served within 24 hours of slicing, so this Cucumber and Tomato Salad is going to be at its best when all the vegetables are crisp and as close to freshly sliced as possible.

Make sure to keep the vinaigrette dressing separate, and only add it to the salad within 2 hours of serving (to avoid making the veggies soggy.)

What Goes with Cucumber Tomato Salad?

This Cucumber and Tomato Salad is so light and refreshing; exactly the kind of food you crave on a hot and muggy day. It goes really well with almost anything that comes off the grill, making it a perfect side dish for burgers. Serve it alongside a juicy Double Bacon Cheeseburger, a ground beef and potatoes skillet, some mexican marinated chicken, or even some Air Fryer Chicken Thighs or creamy mac and cheese for a dinner that comes together in minutes.

Plus, it is easy to include whatever your vegetable and herb garden is producing at the time for some variations on the classic cucumber and tomato salad:

  • Got sweet onions instead of red? Throw them in!
  • Sliced radishes? Ravishing!
  • Is your cilantro, chives, or parsley plant going gangbusters? Bring โ€˜em on.

This Cucumber Tomato Salad recipe is pure fresh deliciousness and it will be on repeat in our household all season long. Definitely save this one for those hot summer nights!

Colorful cucumber and tomato salad with dill

Cucumber Tomato Salad

Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Wait Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions are tossed with vinegar and oil for an impressively simple and tasty summer salad

Ingredients

  • 1 tomato, cut into thin wedges
  • 4 mini seedless cucumbers, or 2 medium cucumber
  • 1/4 red or yellow onion, thinly sliced
  • 1 Tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 Tablespoon fresh dill
  • 2 Tablespoons white wine vinegar
  • Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste

Instructions

In a bowl, toss together the tomatoes, cucumbers and onion.

In another bowl, whisk together the olive oil, dill, and vinegar. Pour over vegetables and season to taste. Refrigerate for at least 15 minutes or up to several hours. Serve cold or at room temperature. 

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 86Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 154mgCarbohydrates: 13gFiber: 2gSugar: 6gProtein: 2g

Please note nutritional information for my recipes is calculated by a third party service and provided as a courtesy to my readers. For the most accurate calculation, I always recommend running the numbers yourself with the specific products you use.

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Do you have more Garden Tomatoes than you know what to do with? ย Check out this Fresh Tomato Soup with Basil for a great way to use them up, and stock your freezer with some fresh tomato goodness to be enjoyed all year long.

Traditional Salad more your style? Look no further than my Easy Garden Salad Recipe.

6 Comments

    1. You can definitely make it at least a day ahead of time. It’ll keep for 3-5 days in the fridge, but the cucumbers and tomatoes will start to lose their crunchiness and texture.

  1. Growing up in the very deep south I lived for summer, the first tomatoes and cucumbers!! I loved them with a splash of white vinegar or naked!! Years ago I found that English cucumbers were better, the thinner skin was much better and the seeds are smaller. Those fat dark green ones have massive seeds that cause non-stop burping for hours. How can it be that the world does not know about this phenomenal salad?

    1. Sometimes the simplest things are the best, aren’t they? And nothing beats fresh summer produce. We are also loving the seedless or English cucumbers for this recipe and for eating plain with a little salt!

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