Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, my cucumber caprese salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
My Cucumber Caprese Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. My Cucumber Caprese Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my cucumber caprese salad using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make My Cucumber Caprese Salad:
- Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Make ready 1 tbsp dried oregano
- Make ready 1 tbsp dried basil
- Make ready Dash salt
- Prepare Dash pepper
- Get 1 cucumber peeled, seeds scraped with fork, sliced thin & diced
- Make ready 8 oz fresh motzerella or 4 motzerella cheese sticks
- Prepare 1/2 white onion, diced
Steps to make My Cucumber Caprese Salad:
- In a small bowl mix together olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dried oregano, dried basil and a dash of salt and pepper; set aside.
- Peel washed cucumber, scrap the seeds with spoon and slice thin and dice. Add to a medium sized bowl.
- Quarter washed cherry tomatoes. Add to the bowl with the cucumbers.
- Thinly slice and dice your white onion (of you do not like onion, feel free to omit from the recipe). Add to bowl with cucumbers and tomatoes
- Slice mozzarella into bite sized pieces (or use pearl sized mozzarella balls) or 4 motzerella cheese sticks cut into bite sized pieces (Let's keep it simple.) Add to bowl with cucumbers, tomatoes and red onion.
- Pour marinade over vegetables and cheese; mix well.
- Allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving.
Foods That Make You Happy
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