Creamy Cucumber Salad With Ranch, Tomatoes & Bacon – Fresh From The Garden!

This creamy cucumber salad with ranch, tomatoes & 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.

You might also like this creamy cucumber slaw with margarita dressing.

Nothing tastes better than a fresh tomato from the garden. Until you’ve eaten a million of them, made sauce with them and even canned your own low carb salsa. However they still sit there on the counter mocking you so you try find other ways to eat them.

And that is how I came up with this creamy cucumber salad with ranch, tomatoes & bacon. I wanted to use some of the last cucumbers from our garden as well as the abundant tomatoes and combine them with the creamy ranch dressing and bacon. It wasn’t much to look at but it sure tasted great!

Only 5 Ingredients!

For this recipe you can see above that I only used cucumbers, tomatoes, sour cream, ranch dressing mix and bacon. This recipe is like a combination of classic sour cream cucumber salad and a BLT. 

A note for those low carb people, I use Daisy sour cream because it has less carbs than other brands. I also used Roma tomatoes which have a few less carbs and are less watery.

Making Cucumber Noodles

Our cucumber were stellar this year. They were crunchy and the practically seedless. Even the gigantic ones tasted good. So I cracked out my old spiralizer and made these ribbon noodles for the salad. If you don’t have a spiralizer you can just slice your cucumber very thin by hand or with a mandoline if you have one.

Creamy Cucumber Salad With Ranch, Tomatoes & Bacon Recipe

My mother used to make cucumber salad with vinegar and dill but I know other people eat their’s with sour cream. So today I wanted to try a creamy cucumber salad with sour cream and ranch dressing mix.

I used my fresh tomatoes and cucumber ribbons and topped it with bacon. The bacon’s salty, crunchiness seemed like the perfect ending to this dish. 

Cucumber Salad Recipe 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. There is a lot of water in both of these vegetables so this dish will get watery.
• Plan on eating it as soon as you make it. 

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 next summer. Hopefully I will save some for someone else.

If you like this dish you may like my Asian lemon ginger cucumber recipe too. 

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 delicious. 

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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Creamy Cucumber Salad with Tomatoes & Bacon

Yield: 4

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes

This creamy cucumber salad with tomatoes & bacon is creamy and cool and has that salty crunch of bacon. A delicious way to use fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden. 

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Ingredients

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

Instructions

1. In a bowl, mix the sour cream and ranch seasonings.
2. Make cucumbers into noodles or thinly slice. Drain any excess water.
3. Chop tomatoes and pour off any excess liquid. You can even take a paper towel and absorb excess water from both the cucumbers and tomatoes.
4. Add dressing and mix well.
5. Top with crumbled bacon.
6. Serve immediately.

Notes

CUCUMBER SALAD RECIPE 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. There is a lot of water in both of these vegetables so this dish will get watery.
  
• 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