Salad with cucumbers and tomatoes with butter

Low-calorie, very tasty and healthy vegetable salad! With the onset of the summer season and the appearance of real fragrant fresh cucumbers and tomatoes on sale or on their site, many people include in their daily menu a simple salad of these vegetables with fresh herbs, seasoned with vegetable oil. This light, rich in fiber and vitamins salad is perfect for almost any hot, will make a full lunch or dinner. And those who are on a diet, such salads are eaten as an independent dish. A salad of fresh vegetables gives the stomach volume and saturation, and it contains very few calories.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 % 1 g
Fats 56 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 33 % 3 g
60 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients for the salad. It is better to use vegetables grown on your site, or purchased on the market from private sellers, they are much tastier than vegetables from the store. But if this is not possible, the main thing is that the vegetables are fresh, without damage and spoilage. Tomatoes are washed, we cut out the attachment point of the peduncle, cut the pulp into cubes or slices, as you like.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cucumbers are washed, cut off the tips on both sides, it is believed that they accumulate nitrates in themselves. Cucumbers cut into cubes or halves, quarters of circles.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    My green onion, let the water drain completely from the leaves and finely chop it with a knife. A vegetable salad of fresh cucumbers and tomatoes and fresh herbs will perfectly complement.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Greens can be used any to taste. Fresh parsley and dill greens will make the salad more fragrant. The greens are washed, dried with a paper towel and finely chopped with a knife. Lettuce green or purple will also give a special taste to the salad, my and finely chop a few leaves with a knife. You can also add basil, spinach and cilantro, but just a little bit, they have a pronounced taste that not everyone may like.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put vegetables and herbs in a deep salad bowl. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    We fill it with vegetable oil, Vegetable oil can be replaced with olive oil, it will turn out even more useful. Thoroughly mix the ingredients with the dressing. The salad is ready. You can let it cool down a little in the refrigerator, but no more than 20 minutes, the salad will taste better.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Serve it to the table with fresh bread and hot to taste. Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Fresh cucumbers - 15   kcal/100g
  • Fresh basil - 27   kcal/100g
  • Dried basil - 251   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Green onion - 19   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Coriander greens - 25   kcal/100g
  • Lettuce leaves - 12   kcal/100g

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