Name: 5-Minute Tomato Cucumber Salad Recipe
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 1 cucumber, chopped; 2 tomatoes, chopped; 1 small red onion, thinly chopped; handful olives (optional); 1/4 cup green bell pepper (optional); handful greens, thinly chopped*; Salt and pepper to taste; Olive oil to taste (about 1 tbsp)

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Got 5 minutes? Then do something good for your body and chop the vegetables for this healthy 5-minute tomato cucumber salad recipe. All you need to do from there is add some olive oil, salt, pepper and mix! Super easy vegetable side dish recipe that is gluten free, vegan and low carb.

The Easiest Tomato Cucumber Salad Recipe

So this is pretty much the tomato cucumber salad I make for all of my other favorite recipes – these lentil wraps, the 5-minute Mediterranean bowl and pretty much any bowl or wrap has some variation of this salad in it.

Why? Because it’s the only vegetable salad I know how to make in 5 minutes and make it taste good. No egocentric kale needing a massage, no lettuce that tastes like nothing and needs dressing to feel alive. This salad is the best thing ever.

Tomato Cucumber Salad Ingredients

To make this simple healthy salad you’ll need:

Some ripe tomatoes. Eat with the seasons and don’t use tomatoes that aren’t really ripe. You can also use cherry tomatoes if you can’t find good ripe tomatoes.
A cucumber.
Tiny onion or scallions. Too much onion is a bit too much.
Parsley and arugula. You can also do any herb you want. Sometimes I do basil or oregano or mint, whatever is available. I use around a handful for this salad.
Olive oil and salt

How To Make A Tomato Cucumber Salad

If you can chop vegetables, you’re almost there. Because all you need after chopping the onion, cucumber, greens and tomatoes is:

put them into a bowl
pour some ~~sugar~~ love and olive oil on them
sprinkle some salt
mix

and that’s it! Ready.

Options

Once you have this super basic tomato cucumber salad, you can go crazy and add whatever you want to make it more filling and even more delicious. Here are some good additions:

olives (as you can see in the old pictures)
red or green bell peppers
avocado
cooked chickpeas or beans
cooked quinoa
feta cheese
roasted vegetables
chicken or salmon
add lemon juice (I personally don’t like tomato salads with lemon, but that’s just me and my self-diagnosed acid reflux)
use other herbs like basil or dill
use garlic instead of onion

No Meal Prep

This salad will spoil pretty fast because chopped tomatoes go bad after you blink 10 times (I hope you don’t start blinking super slow after this). However, the good thing about this recipe is that you can make it in 5 minutes. It’s like nothing.

How To Serve

When I made this tomato cucumber salad recently, I served it with some baked trout and a tasty zucchini sauce that I will share soon here. The salad is perfect with falafels and any other protein of choice – fish, meat, calamari or even shrimp. And hummus and tzatziki are also great friends!

I hope you enjoy this recipe!