Preparation time: 10 mins
Serves: 4-6
Enjoy this easy-to-make, refreshing Cuban cucumber and tomato salad, enhanced with roasted garlic and zesty lime. A perfect quick and versatile side dish for a hot summer day, especially delicious with sweet heirloom tomatoes.
Roast garlic for about 5 minutes at 400 degrees F. A toaster oven is ideal for this.
Partially peel cucumber, leaving strips of green along length. Cut cucumber in half lengthwise, and then into 1/2-inch slices. Cut tomatoes into wedges.
Finely mince roasted garlic, and combine with oil, lime juice, salt, and pepper flakes. Toss with cucumber and tomato.