Chopped Cucumber Caprese Salad
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Fresh tomatoes, chopped cucumbers, sweet basil and pearls of bocconcini cheese. A popular Italian salad brimming with garden veggies!
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Since marrying into an Italian family, I’ve learned that fresh ingredients are everything. This simple salad of garden veggies, basil, and bocconcini needs little more than olive oil, salt, and pepper. My mother-in-law makes it straight from her backyard in the summer—it’s her go-to. I add a bit of onion, but that part’s totally optional!
A Quick Peek At The Ingredients
Get the full list of ingredients and amounts needed for this recipe in the recipe card below.
I prefer to use Roma tomatoes because they are meatier than other varieties. I am not a huge texture fan, mainly because I don’t like the mushy, seedy centres of hot-house tomatoes. Roma tomatoes have fewer “guts” and more of the firmer meaty parts.
You can, however, use any tomato you like.
can you make this salad in advance?
A Cucumber Caprese Salad Recipe will keep in the fridge in a sealed container for up to 3 days. After that the cucumbers tend to get a little mushy. This salad can not be frozen.
What goes well with A caprese salad?
You can really serve this salad alongside anything or even eat it on its own.
Some of my favourite dishes to pair with this salad are:
Chopped Cucumber Caprese Salad
Equipment
- Chopping Knife
- Large Bowl
- Measuring Spoons
- Measuring Cups
- Spoon
Ingredients
- 3 Roma tomatoes chopped
- 2 cups cucumber chopped
- ½ cup red onion chopped
- 1 cup fresh basil
- 1 cup pearl bocconcini cheese drained
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Add the tomatoes, cucumber, onion, basil, bocconcini, olive oil, salt and pepper to a large bowl. Mix well and serve.
Nutrition
Notes
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I love this salad. It’s easy and delicious.
Perfect summer salad!!
This salad is the perfect side dish for summer grilling recipes. It’s great the next day too if you have any extras left.
The perfect summer salad! Thank you!
This was a lovely and fresh side dish to a roast chicken I made tonight – we loved the flavours.