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Lettuce cucumbers tomatoes fresh cabbage

Cucumber, Tomato, and Fresh Cabbage Salad

Very simple, very fast, very tasty, no mayonnaise! You can make this salad of cucumber, tomato, and fresh cabbage in 10 minutes. It's a light, healthy, fresh, colorful, tasty salad for any occasion. You can serve it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. A great snack of the "make-it-and-eat-it" variety!

Julia M.

Recipe author

Lettuce cucumbers tomatoes fresh cabbage

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Spring cabbage

350

Cucumbers

Tomatoes

Olive oil

Herbs

Salt

Dry spices

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 25 % 3 g

Fats 42 % 5 g

Carbohydrates 33 % 4 g

68 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 15 min

Step 1:

How do you make a fresh cabbage salad with cucumber and tomato? Gather everything you'll need. Rinse the cucumbers and tomatoes under running water to clean off any dirt, then pat them dry. You can use any cabbage - fresh or stored since fall. Fresh is softer and juicier. Peel 2-3 of the weathered outer leaves off the head of fresh cabbage.
Step 2:

Shred the spring cabbage thinly and scrunch it a little with your hands. Why scrunch it by hand? It's needed to make the cabbage softer and juicier in the salad. Transfer the shredded cabbage to a salad bowl.
Step 3:

Trim the ends off the fresh cucumbers. Cut each cucumber lengthwise in half. Then slice it into half-moons. Add the cut cucumbers to the salad bowl with the cabbage.
Step 4:

Choose firm, fleshy tomatoes for the salad. They have delicious, sweet flesh but little juice. The salad doesn't need extra moisture. Cut the tomatoes in half and remove the stem end. Cut each tomato half into large slices.
Step 5:

Add the cut tomatoes to the salad bowl.
Step 6:

Finely chop the fresh herbs and add them to the salad bowl as well. Sprinkle the salad with salt and spices to taste. Ground pepper works well as a seasoning. Dress with olive oil and mix everything gently so as not to crush the tomatoes.
Step 7:

Transfer the finished salad to a serving bowl and bring it to the table.
Step 8:

This salad makes a great addition to meat or fish dishes. Enjoy!

Choose juicy but firm tomatoes. Soft ones don't hold their shape well; as you cut and prepare them, they fall apart into a shapeless mush and ruin the look of the dish.
If you use ready-made spice blends, be sure to read the ingredients on the package. These blends often already contain salt - keep that in mind, or you risk over-salting the dish.
Since everyone's tolerance for salt, sweetness, bitterness, heat, acidity, and spice is different, always add spices and seasonings to your own taste! If you're using a seasoning for the first time, keep in mind that some are especially easy to overdo (chili pepper, for example).