Cucumber and tomato salad with avocado

Easy fresh summer salad recipe

Need a way to use up all of those tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs from your garden? This is an easy recipe for cucumber and tomato salad that is spruced up a bit by adding fresh herbs, avocados and pickled beets. Easy vegan vinaigrette recipe to top it all off.

This is the perfect end of summer recipe; it’s healthy, easy to make and doesn’t require heating anything up.

This salad is great for when it’s too hot to cook.

Wrap it up in a romaine lettuce leaf, or top off your Buddha bowl with this salad.

This salad is also amazing to take on a picnic, or bring to a potluck or summer BBQ.

Tips for making this cucumber tomato salad

• Use whatever tomato is in season and is your favorite. Cherry or grape tomatoes also taste amazing in this recipe.
• If you’re using medium or large tomatoes, if you’d like the salad to be a little less watery or soggy, just de-seed the tomatoes.
• You can add the tomato seeds to the vinaigrette dressing base if you’d like to not waste them.
• You can also de-seed the cucumber if you’re not using an English cucumber
• I recommend using English cucumbers for this recipe as they have thinner skin and not as many seeds.
• If you’re not using an english cucumber, make sure to peel it. The skin will be too thick and won’t be very fun to chew.
• Fresh herbs really make this recipe pop, so don’t skip that step. Use whatever you have on hand. My favorite are parsley and basil combined.
• I’ve used only 1 TBL of olive oil in this recipe before, to cut down on the fat, and it turned out great.
• Make sure to let this salad chill, covered, for at least an hour before serving.
• Avocado is also amazing in this recipe.
• You can also use vegan feta cheese (Violife has an amazing vegan feta) in place of the avocado.

Summer salad recipes to try next

• Grilled veggie pasta salad
• Southwest quinoa salad
• Vegan taco salad
• Vegan pasta salad
• Vegan summer rolls

Tomato cucumber salad with avocado and beets

Fresh summer salad to use up all of the tomatoes and cucumbers from your garden.

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Keyword: cucumber, Salad, tomato, vegan, vegan vinaigrette

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 129kcal

Author: Maria

Ingredients

• 2 medium cucumbers (peeled if they’re not the thinner skinned English cucumber variety)
• ¼ of a large red onion – sliced
• 3 medium tomatoes (de-seed if you’d like this to be less soggy)
• ⅓ cup pickled beets (- sliced)
• 1 avocado (- diced)
• Handful of chopped fresh herbs of choice (- I used parsley and basil)

Vinaigrette

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp white, red or apple cider vinegar
• 2 cloves garlic
• ½ tsp sugar
• ½ tsp salt (or to taste)
• Pepper to taste

Instructions

• Peel and chop up your cucumbers (if not using english cucumbers)
• Dice your tomatoes.
• Add the sliced red onions, avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, chopped fresh herbs, and pickled beets to a large mixing bowl.
• Pour the vinaigrette over and stir everything together
• Taste and adjust the seasonings as needed.
• Let chill in the fridge, covered, for at least an hour

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Notes

If you’d like this to be a little less watery, de-seed the tomatoes and cucumbers (you don’t have to de-seed an english cucumber, as it doesn’t have a lot of seeds to begin with)

If you’d like to use less olive oil, cut it down to only 1 TBL instead of 2.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Tomato cucumber salad with avocado and beets

Amount per Serving

Calories

129

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

10

g

15

%

Saturated Fat

 

1

g

6

%

Sodium

 

219

mg

10

%

Potassium

 

481

mg

14

%

Carbohydrates

 

11

g

4

%

Fiber

 

4

g

17

%

Sugar

 

5

g

6

%

Protein

 

2

g

4

%

Vitamin A

 

668

IU

13

%

Vitamin C

 

16

mg

19

%

Calcium

 

31

mg

3

%

Iron

 

1

mg

6

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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