I wasn’t sure about trying this recipe out on the family with all the raw onions in it, but I learned a little trick watching the food network that has made my raw onion simply wonderful. The trick is to place the cut onion immediately into a bowl of ice water, it takes the bite right out of it, but leave all the flavor!!! I hope you enjoy this salad with all that yummy grilled meat this summer!
Cold Onion, Tomato & Cucumber Salad
Ingredients:
1/2 of a red onion cut into slices (remember to dump the slice into an ice bath before mixing in the salad)
2 Vine Ripe Tomatoes
1 cucumber, diced
Generous drizzle of Olive Oil
Fresh Basil leaves, diced up
Juice of 1//2 Lemon, and grate the lemon zest into the salad also
Salt & Pepper to taste
Grated Fresh Garlic, 1-2 cloves
Drizzle Olive Oil into a medium bowl, add lemon juice and zest, whisk together. Add basil, garlic, salt & pepper. Whisk again. Add the cucumber, tomato and onion into the dressing and toss together until veggies are well coated! Serve as a side to any of your grilled meat dinners!! Enjoy!
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Classic Greek village salad, if you add some feta. My mom’s trick with the raw onion: slice onion really thin, then sprinkle some sea salt on the slices. Rub and toss with your fingers until the onions start to give off liquid (just for a minute). This really helps!
The feta sounds like a great add to this! Thanks. I have done the salt trick before, the ice water bath works great too! Always great to get good kitchen tips!! Thanks!
I love looking at your recipes. This one in particular, onion, tomato and cucumber sounds very delicious. Glad you are rasiing your children Paleo and grain free!
Lisa Wilcox
Owner
http://www.NWGrassFed.com
Thanks for the support!!!
This looks really tasty thanks! I will have to try out that tip with the onion.
By the way I added a link to you on my blog.
-Kara
Thanks so much…glad to have you in the Primal Blogging World!!