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Best Simple Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

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A quick and easy recipe to combine fresh cucumbers and cherry tomatoes from the farmer’s market. This salad is a great addition to any summer meal!

Best Simple Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

Hello summer days!

It may not technically be summer yet but it’s close enough for me. The heat + humidity have really set in around here lately and I have officially changed my wardrobe to athletic shorts and tanks. I really try to dress nice at the beginning of the day but it rarely lasts. After 15 minutes outside in 90 degree weather when the humidity is sky high I can’t bear to be wearing anything else.

Summer is great, though! I love the fresh everything including flowers, produce, cut grass. It’s all a constant reminder of how much I love this time of year.

I especially love fresh salads like this one. I have been putting chopped cucumbers in everything lately and it got me thinking. I need a simple but mainly quick-to-make cucumber salad that can be tossed together in a hurry for a weeknight dinner or backyard gathering and still taste amazing. No fancy equipment or small appliances necessary for this one.

Best Simple Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

Ways this salad can improve your day:

  • Eat it just as is alongside your main course for lunch or dinner. The combination of cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, red onion, feta cheese + olive oil, apple cider vinegar, pink salt, black pepper is enough to make my mouth water immediately. It’s quite possibly my favorite summer salad combo.
  • Add some of cucumber salad to a dark leafy green salad and consider adding kalamata olives, avocado, and chickpeas to make it a meal. YUM!
  • Grab some as a snack mid-afternoon. The dressing combo of EVOO, apple cider vinegar, dill weed and salt/pepper is delicious and it gets even better after the first day.

Best Simple Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

Grab the ingredients and toss this one together because you are going to love it!!

Best Simple Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

Best Simple Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

A quick and easy recipe to combine fresh cucumbers and cherry tomatoes from the farmer's market. This salad is a great addition to any summer meal!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Course Salad

Ingredients
  

  • 1 English cucumber, sliced 4-5 mini cucumbers would work well too
  • 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 3 tbsp chopped red onion
  • pink salt or kosher to taste
  • black pepper to taste
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1/4 tsp dill weed
  • 2 tbsp feta cheese

Instructions
 

  • In a large bowl, combine cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red onion, dill weed, salt and pepper. Add olive oil and apple cider vinegar and stir until ingredients are evenly coated with dressing. Top with feta cheese. For best results, let salad marinate in fridge for at least 30 minutes.

 

Best Simple Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad

 

More Great Salad Ideas

 

Everyday Mediterranean Salad

Everyday Mediterranean Salad

 

Chicken Chopped Salad

Chopped Chicken Salad with Quinoa and Black Beans

Spring Greens Salad with Strawberries

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Spring greens tossed with red cabbage, cucumbers, strawberries, avocado, feta cheese, pepitas topped with a strawberry lemon vinaigrette. This salad is everything!

Spring Greens Salad with Strawberries

Salad game on point? Yessss!!

Spring has sprung and it’s all rainy as can be around here lately. Amidst all of the rain we are still all smiles because school is out, splash pads are in full gear, and this salad has me hooked.

Spring Greens Salad with Strawberries

I love salads. Wait, I love non-boring salads to be exact. Ones that have tons of flavor, texture, and color. Not only do they taste amazing but my husband can’t resist them either. And that is enough to get my arms pumping up and down.

It’s a total game-changer when I can get him to admit the salad is the best part of the meal. This is one of those kind of salads.

Ways to make this salad next level:

  1. Choose greens that have a combination of spinach, radicchio, rocket (arugula), and herbs. The more variety the better in my book.
  2. Toast the pepitas. Not a you-have-to-do-this! kind of thing but it does add some extra flavor.
  3. Slice the cucumbers and then cut them julienne-style. It just guarantees you will get more cucumber flavor in each bite along with the rest of the salad rather than one honkin slice of cucumber. It’s my preference.
  4. Slice the avocado lengthwise and then cut it widthwise to get smaller slices of avocado in your salad. By now it’s gotta be obvious. I love chopped salads because there is so much flavor in each bite.

Spring Greens Salad with Strawberries

Spring Greens Salad with Strawberries

Spring Greens Salad with Strawberries

Spring greens tossed with red cabbage, cucumbers, strawberries, avocado, feta cheese, pepitas topped with a strawberry lemon vinaigrette. This salad is everything!
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Course Salad
Cuisine American
Servings 5

Ingredients
  

Salad

  • 8 cups spring greens lightly packed
  • 1 cup red cabbage chopped
  • 8 oz strawberries hulled, sliced
  • 1/2 cucumber sliced, julienned
  • 1/2 avocado sliced lengthwise then widthwise
  • 1/4 cup feta cheese crumbles
  • 1/4 cup pepitas

Strawberry Lemon Vinaigrette

  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 1/3 cup lemon juice roughly 2 lemons
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 tsp dijon mustard
  • 1/2 tbsp strawberry jam
  • 1 tbsp plain greek yogurt
  • 1/4 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/8 tsp black pepper

Instructions
 

Salad

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange pepitas on baking sheet and toast for 5 minutes until golden brown. Set aside
  • Add greens to a large bowl. Toss in the red cabbage, cucumber, strawberries, and feta cheese. Top with the pepitas and avocado slices. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Add dressing just prior to serving.

Strawberry Lemon Vinaigrette

  • Add all dressing ingredients to a mason jar. Attach lid and shake vigorously until ingredients are well mixed. Add dressing just prior to serving.

Notes

I like to add all the salad ingredients and refrigerate until ready to serve unless it will be more than an hour. In this case, wait to add avocado closer to serving time along with the dressing. 
If preferred, store-bought dressing works great on this salad too. A creamy garlic dressing or fruity vinaigrette would be good options. 

 

 

Spring Greens Salad with Strawberries

 

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Everyday Mediterranean Salad

Everyday Mediterranean Salad

 

Best Broccoli Salad with Quinoa

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Healthy Zucchini Fritters

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Pan-fried zucchini fritters combined with feta cheese, onion, egg, whole grain flour, breadcrumbs, and seasonings. They are perfect at brunch or as an appetizer.
Zucchini Fritters

Fritters. Well, what can I say the last time I tasted fritters I was in my college cooking and nutrition class. I don’t remember them tasting that great to be honest.

I do believe my cooking skills are a bit more advanced than they were back then.  I was a pro at baking chocolate chip cookies and that was about it.

These zucchini fritters are everything they should be! No they don’t taste like an apple fritter. I am more of a savory brunch gal anyway. Sweet stuff in the morning just makes my stomach turn. I’m gonna go ahead and say it…these zucchini fritters are flippin good!!

To start off you grate the zucchini. It works best if you use the large holes on a cheese grater. Then using cheesecloth (or a clean towel), wrap up the zucchini and squeeze out all of the liquid that you can.

Healthy Zucchini Fritters

Healthy Zucchini Fritters

Then combine it with the remaining ingredients until well incorporated and scoop it onto a preheated skillet and cook for 3-5 minutes per side. That.is.it.guys.

Yummy goodness that is quick and easy.

Let me just discuss something with you for a quick sec. I have really come to appreciate stepping or let’s add leaping out of my usual food choices and trying new things. I mean it’s pretty much a required thing as a food blogger but it forced me to get comfortable in the kitchen and that’s what I have always wanted…to be able to put down one heck of a meal for my family without it being stressful.

Supper doesn’t always have to be this gourmet homemade meal. It just takes some creativity with the items you have lying around in your pantry to get food on the table for your family. And the more creative you become, the better your chances are of frequently switching up those 10 staple meals we all go back to when we are in need of something quick and easy.

Healthy Zucchini Fritters

We loved eating these up as I was getting supper ready the other night. They have a good crunch, plenty of flavor, and bonus! they are good for you!

So give them a try and let me know whatcha think!!

Healthy Zucchini Fritters

Healthy Zucchini Fritters

Pan-fried zucchini fritters combined with feta cheese, onion, egg, whole grain flour, breadcrumbs, and seasonings. They are perfect at brunch or as an appetizer.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Course Appetizer, Breakfast/Brunch
Servings 5

Ingredients
  

  • 3 zucchini squash
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1/2 cup feta cheese crumbles I used Mediterranean style
  • 1/4 cup fresh basil chopped
  • 1/4 cup white onion chopped or whatever onion you have available
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 cup white whole wheat flour or all-purpose
  • 1/2 cup whole wheat bread crumbs
  • 1 tbsp olive oil

Instructions
 

  • Using a cheese grater(large holes) grate the zucchini. Squeeze out all the water you can from the zucchini using cheesecloth or a clean towel. Discard the water
  • Add the grated zucchini to a large bowl along with the eggs, cheese, basil, onion, cumin, and salt. Mix together until well incorporated.
  • Add the flour and breadcrumbs and mix in thoroughly.
  • Add oil to a non-stick skillet and heat over medium-low to medium heat. Drop batter by 1/4 cup onto skillet and press down with a 1 cup measuring cup to flatten. Cook 3-5 minutes and then flip and cook another 3-5 minutes. When cooking them over more medium heat, the time was close to 3 minutes per side whereas when cooking them over medium-low heat it took close to 5 minutes per side. I prefer cooking them over more medium heat to get a crisper outside.
  • Transfer fritters to a plate and serve warm.

 

Healthy Zucchini Fritters