Creamy Cucumber Salad with Tomatoes Corn and Basil Yogurt Dressing
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Creamy Cucumber Salad with Tomatoes Corn Feta and Pistachios (Basil Yogurt Dressing)
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This Creamy Cucumber Salad with Tomatoes Corn and Basil Yogurt Dressing is not your mom’s gloppy Good Housekeeping side salad. This is the cucumber salad that ends up getting invited to every cookout for the rest of the summer.
We’re talking juicy cherry tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, sweet corn, salty crumbled feta, and pistachios for an effortlessly impressive side. Toss it all in a creamy Basil Yogurt Dressing and you have a salad that tastes like summer in a Greek villa. Bonus: it’s gluten-free, naturally vegetarian, and cool enough to bring to the friend group that’s very into gut health right now. Make it once and you’ll start looking for excuses to bring a salad to literally everything. Add grilled chicken, chickpeas, or eat it straight out of the mixing bowl while standing at the counter. Your summer your rules.
Ingredients
2 lbs. persian cucumbers (about 16), cut into a small dice, to yield 4-5 cups
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
1 cup cooked corn kernels (cut from two small cobs)
1 medium avocado, diced
2-3 oz feta, crumbled
1/3 cup chopped roasted pistachios
Kosher salt
black pepper
- Basil Yogurt Dressing
12 oz. Greek yogurt (I typically use 2%)
4 scallion tops, rinsed well and cut into 2-3 inch pieces (or 2 whole scallions, if you like a little more bite)
1-1.5 oz oz. basil, rinsed and spun dry (about two handfuls), plus more for garnish
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
4-5 tbsp lemon juice (from 2 small lemons)
1/2 tsp sugar
1-2 tbsp cool water
1/2 tsp Kosher salt, plus extra for seasoning to taste
black pepper
Directions
- Cucumber Tomato and Corn Salad with Feta Pistachios and Basil Yogurt Dressing
- Prepare dressing using the directions below.
- Combine the diced cucumbers, halved cherry tomatoes, corn, and half the feta cheese in a large bowl. Add appx. 1/2 cup of dressing and toss. Season to taste. Top salad with the diced avocado, the remaining feta, and pistachios and drizzle more dressing on top. Tear a little more basil over the top of the salad for a lovely garnish.
- Basil Yogurt Dressing
- Prepare dressing by blending together the yogurt, scallion tops, basil, olive oil, lemon juice, sugar, and 1/2 tsp Kosher salt. Add cool water, 1 tbsp at a time, blending after every addition, to thin to drizzling consistency. Season to taste with more salt and pepper.
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Sarah Faris: The salad Whisperer
Sarah is a classically trained chef and Mom whose passion is spreading the gospel of salad. A native New Yorker, she now calls Miami, FL home.
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