Easy for the stomach, quick to prepare, affordable food, healthy vegetables, spicy dressing … This is a salad of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers with lemon-soy dressing.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
The people say "each vegetable has its own term". In the meantime, the vegetable season is not over, we will replenish the body with useful vitamins and prepare delicious and aromatic salads. Tomatoes and cucumbers are amazing versatile vegetables that go wonderfully with many other vegetables, cheese, fruits, meats, sausages, seafood … Combining them in salads with different products, you can always get different flavors, from spicy to savory.
Among other things, the taste of the salad also depends on the dressing and the herbs used. Tomatoes and cucumbers are combined with mayonnaise, and sour cream, and vinegar-oil dressing. Lemon juice, soy sauce, tartar sauce, mustard, various oils are perfect here. There are many options for simple and complex gas stations.
This basic composition of vegetables will complement sweet peppers. And the dressing of soy sauce, lemon juice and vegetable oil will correct and create a kind of interesting taste. Preparing this salad is simple. And the ratio in the composition of easily digestible ingredients and the dressing can be changed to your liking. Additional products will change the appearance and taste of the treat.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 39 kcal.
- Servings - 1
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Tomatoes - 1 pc.
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Sweet red pepper - 1 pc.
- Lemon - 1/4
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon
- Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons
- Salt - a pinch
Step by step preparation of tomato, cucumber and pepper salad in a spicy sauce:
1. Wash the tomatoes and wipe dry with a napkin. Cut it into pieces of any size. But do not crush very finely so that he does not let the juice flow. Choose tomatoes that are dense and firm, from soft varieties the salad will turn out to be too watery.
2. Wash the cucumbers, wipe with a paper towel and cut into half rings.
3. Wash and dry the bell peppers. Remove the stalk, clean out the baffled seeds and cut the fruit into strips.
4. Peel and finely chop the garlic.
5. Put all vegetables in a deep bowl and salt. Drizzle over them with vegetable oil, soy sauce and squeeze out some lemon juice.
6. Stir the salad and serve immediately. Since it is not customary to cook it for the future. Tomatoes may leak and the food becomes too watery, which will ruin the appearance and taste. If you do not plan to use the salad right away, then you can chop the vegetables, put them in a bowl, but do not stir. And just before serving, pour over the dressing and mix.
See also a video recipe on how to make a cucumber and tomato salad.
