Marinated Cucumber Tomato Salad

Looking for a refreshing summer salad?  Get creative and look past a simple green salad and make it a marinated mediterranean style dish with seasonally sweet cherry tomatoes, hydrating cucumber, and detoxifying parsley and lemon/lime juice to add some zest.  With under 5 ingredients, this is an easy, simple and delicious side salad to add to your summer dinner table.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cucumber, peeled and diced

• 2 quarts cherry tomato, quartered

• 2 lemon (or 2 lime), juiced

• 1/2 cup parsley (or cilantro), finely chopped

• 2 T extra virgin olive oil

• salt/pepper to taste

• 1/4 red onion

• 1/2 cup kalamata (or black olives), sliced

• 1 avocado, diced (**Optional**)

• Optional to Add chickpeas to make for a complete meal

DIRECTIONS:

1. Add all ingredients in a bowl (produce washed and sliced) and mix until lightly well combined.  Drizzle olive oil and lemon/lime juice and let sit in the refrigerator to chill before serving.  Enjoy as is, over microgreens, or serve as an appetizer with whole grain pita.