Tomato salad with cucumbers and cheese

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary products. The key to a delicious vegetable salad is the right vegetables. Of course, it is best to use fresh seasonal tomatoes and cucumbers, but even in the off-season it is quite realistic to find good tomatoes and cucumbers. Choose tomatoes by smell, - they should smell like tomatoes, - be a bright saturated color. Large tomatoes and cherries, both medium and small, are suitable for this salad. Cucumbers, I recommend buying a small ra

2. Step 2:

   

   Also, cucumbers must be elastic to the touch and smell fresh. Wash the cucumbers well. It is best to use hot water, using a special brush and means for washing vegetables. Then dry the cucumbers, cut off the buttocks and cut them in any convenient way. I cut it into half circles. But any other slicing is also quite suitable.

3. Step 3:

   

   Tomatoes are also very well washed, remove the stalk and cut as you like. I cut tomatoes into slices, but you can also cut them into cubes or in any other convenient way.

4. Step 4:

   

   Mix vegetables, add chopped garlic. I usually pass the clove through the press, but you can also chop the garlic with a knife or grate it on a fine grater.

6. Step 5:

   

   Add salt to the salad. You may also want to pepper it or add some other spices. Or maybe you prefer fresh greens? it is quite suitable for this salad: wash it well and chop it.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add grated cheese. It can be hard or semi-hard cheese, mozzarella or even cheese with mold is also suitable. In the latter case, you can break it with your hands into small pieces.

8. Step 7:

   

   Season the salad with sour cream. Choose natural sour cream, without milk fat substitute, any degree of fat content from 10 to 30%. Of course, you can replace sour cream with mayonnaise, but this is much less useful.

9. Step 8:

   

   Mix the salad, put it in a salad bowl. Serve it to the table as a salad or even as an independent dish. Bon appetit!