Creamy Cucumber Salad with Tomatoes

This creamy cucumber salad with tomatoes, ranch and bacon is a delicious way to use fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden. Creamy and cool this summer salad tastes like a combination of a traditional sour cream and cucumbers salad crossed with a BLT! Each serving has 7.1g net carbs.

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Nothing tastes better than a fresh veggies from the garden, especially juicy tomatoes. Until you’ve eaten a million of them that is. I’ve made pasta sauce with them and even canned my own low carb salsa. However today I found a new way to use garden fresh tomatoes along with our vast amounts of garden cucumbers too.

This creamy cucumber salad with tomatoes, ranch and bacon is delicious! It’s a combination of flavors of the classic cucumber salad with sour cream and a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. But without the bread because I wanted it to be low carb too. It was so easy because I only used 5-10 ingredients and made in about 5 minutes.

This cool, creamy and savory salad was perfect for a hot summer day and was very filling as well. Each serving has only 7.1 grams net carbs and 5.5 grams of protein.

Recipe ingredients and substitutions.

You only need 5 ingredients and they are fresh Roma tomatoes, cucumbers, sour cream, ranch dressing mix and bacon. Some people like to use onions with cukes but I didn’t think it was needed. You can of course add some onions. I personally think red onions would look nice and taste great.

• Roma tomatoes – I use Roma tomatoes because they have less water and seeds and more flesh.and we don’t want the recipe can get watery. So Romas are the best but you of course can use regular, grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes.
• sour cream and ranch dressing – I like this combination better than the bottled salad dressing because it’s thicker and it mixes well with the high water contents of the veggies. Plus it lends more to the classic sour cream cucumber recipe. You could use mayonnaise be I think the tang of the sour cream is better in this recipe than mayonnaise. Greek yogurt could work too but sometimes that is too tangy.
• cucumbers – I used English cucumbers because they don’t have many seeds and you can make them into noodles easier. Of course you don’t have to make the noodles and you can use other kinds of cucumbers. This was just my preference. You could also substitute with zucchini noodles if you wanted.
• bacon – I just use regular sliced bacon and cooked it.

Using cucumber noodles.

When I first made this recipe I used my old spiralizer and made these ribbon like noodles. This time I use my go to spiralizer that makes a thick spaghetti size noodle.

If you don’t have a spiralizer you can just slice your cucumber very thin by hand or with a mandoline or vegetable peeler if you have one. Or just use chunks if you want.

How to make creamy cucumber salad with tomatoes, ranch and bacon.

1. First make you bacon any way you want. When it done, let cool then crumble into pieces.
2. While that is cooking, add sour cream and ranch dressing mix in a medium bowl and set aside.
3. Make cucumbers into noodles or thinly slice. Drain any excess water with pepper towels.
4. Chop tomatoes and pour off any excess liquid. You can even take a paper towel and absorb excess water as well.
5. Get out a bowl and add the veggies.
6. Spoon the dressing in and mix well to combine. Then top with the crumbled bacon. Serve immediately or store in the refrigerator until ready to eat.

You can add a bit of salt and black pepper if you think it needs it. I find that sometimes the ranch mix and bacon adds enough salt for my tastes so I don’t add any more.

If you taking this to a picnic or party and want to garnish this dish with fresh herbs, try parsley, dill or even mint. And if you have fresh parsley (or dill) from your garden all the better!

Store leftover creamy cucumber tomato salad in an airtight container. If it accumulates too much water, just pour it off and give it a good mix. Please scroll down and view the printable recipe card.

Creamy cucumber tomato salad recipe tips.

• Try to use seedless or English cucumbers if you can. This will give you more flesh and less seeds to make noodles with or even if you are just slicing them.
• Drain as much water as you can from both the cucumber noodles and the chopped tomatoes before mixing. I would go so far as to use a few paper towels to dry off the both veggies as there is a lot of water in them so this dish can get watery.
• Plan on eating it as soon as you make it. The longer it sits you will get some water accumulating. It will taste fine though either way.

I’m embarrassed to say that I ate this whole bowl for both lunch and dinner. I really like this taste combination and will definitely be making it again this summer. Hopefully I will save some for someone else.

Well I if you are a fan of creamy cucumber salads I really think you will like this one. While it’s not very low carb it only has 7.1g net carbs and it really is deliciously easy. Enjoy!

The nutritional information for 1 serving is: 288 calories / 18.1g fat / 7.9g carbs / 0.8g fiber / 5.5g protein = 7.1g net carbs

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Creamy Cucumber Salad Recipe (with tomatoes, ranch and bacon)

Yield: 4

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes

This creamy cucumber salad with tomatoes recipe is made with creamy ranch and salty, crunchy bacon. It's a cool, delicious way to use fresh tomatoes and crisp cucumbers from the garden. Plus it's low carb as well!

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Ingredients

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• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons dry ranch dressing mix, from a packet
• 2 cups Roma tomatoes, diced
• 4 cups cucumbers, made into noodles or thinly sliced
• 4 pieces of bacon, cooked and crumbled

Instructions

1. Make the bacon and once cooled, crumble or chop into pieces.
2. In a bowl, mix the sour cream and ranch seasoning mix.
3. Make cucumbers noodles using a spiralizer or vegetable peeler. You can also just slice them thinly.. Drain any excess water. You can also use paper towels to dab off the excess water.
4. Chop tomatoes and again pour off any excess liquid. You can even take a paper towel and absorb excess water like you did the cukes. The excess water will make sour cream mixture watery and we want to avoid this if possible. Place the veggies into a mixing bowl.
5. Add dressing to the veggies and mix well. Top with crumbled bacon and serve immediately. Note I did not add any salt or black pepper as the bacon can be salty but feel free to season with them if you want.

Notes

CRECIPE TIPS

• Try to use seedless or English cucumbers if you can.
  
• Drain as much water as you can from both the cucumber noodles and the chopped tomatoes. I would go so far as to use a few paper towels to dry off the cucumber noodles and tomatoes.. There is a lot of water in both of these vegetables so this dish will get watery.
  
• For best results, plan on eating it as soon as you make it.

The nutritional information for 1 serving is: 288 cals / 18.1g fat / 7.9g carbs / 0.8g fiber / 5.5g protein = 7.1g net carbs

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Nutrition Information:

Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1 servine
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 288Unsaturated Fat: 0g