Name: Stir-fried Cucumbers With Tomatoes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1 cucumber; 1 tomatoe; 1 green pepper; 2 slice ginger; ¼ tbsp vinegar; ⅛ tbsp sugar; ½ tbsp salt (pickle cucumber); 1 teaspoon salt (stir fried); ¼ tbsp chicken powder; 4 cloves garlic

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Stir-fried Cucumbers With Tomatoes

Stir-fried cucumbers with tomatoes is a very common home-cooked dish on the dinner table of Chinese families, but it meant something special to me. It always reminds me of my grandma.

When I was a little girl, I used to go to my grandma’s house for a short stay in the summer. What I love most is following my grandma to pick vegetables from our yard every morning after breakfast.

There were many vegetables in the small yard, red tomatoes, purple long and thin eggplants, hanging lentils with long bodies, and cucumbers with a pale yellow trumpet flower on top of their heads ……After picking the vegetables we wanted to eat, we went home and slowly picked the vegetables, and then wash them carefully with water, occasionally with Grandpa laughing and joking, and now when I think back, it’s quite a feeling of quiet years.

The most impressive thing is that every time before lunchtime, I always got hungry because of playing around, Grandma would take out tomatoes or cucumbers from the washed vegetable basket, and let me eat first, so I won’t be messing around. Tomatoes are sweet and sour, cucumbers are crisp and refreshing. After eating them raw, I felt cool a lot in the hot summer, these two foods simply can not be tired of.

Cucumbers And Tomatoes

At this time, grandma began to cook, the aroma of a puffed from the kitchen, tomato, and egg soup, stir-fried cucumbers with tomatoes, fried eggplant, and steamed eggs on the table one after another, although it is a common household dish, it is the best taste in my memory.

Now that I’ve grown up cooking on my own, my favorite food is still the ordinary, most common homemade dishes. Today I will share stir-fried cucumbers with tomatoes, it’s not only crisp and refreshing but also healthy and delicious. After eating you will feel clear and refreshed, come to see how to make this classic dish called stir-fried cucumbers with tomatoes! If you want to try another stir style food, you can try our conch recipe.

Can Cucumbers Be Mixed With Tomatoes?

Of course, you can, and you can also serve them with other things. They are not only refreshing in taste but also very high in nutritional value. But some people believe that eating them together can affect the absorption of vitamin C. However, there is no scientific basis for this claim.

Stir-fried Cucumbers With Tomatoes

Do Cucumbers Keep Better In The Refrigerator Or On The Counter?

Put it in the refrigerator. Because cucumbers are perishable vegetables and therefore need to be stored with special care. If they are kept on the counter, they may be exposed to the effects of sunlight, air, and humidity, which can cause them to rot more quickly.

Why Is It Best Not To Refrigerate Tomatoes?

Because tomatoes are easily rotten and spoiled in the refrigerator. Tomatoes are susceptible to spoilage in hot and humid environments. If tomatoes are kept in the refrigerator, they can become contaminated with odors and bacteria from other foods in the refrigerator, which can cause them to rot and spoil more quickly.

How To Make Stir-fried Cucumbers With Tomatoes

Step1

Wash the cucumber and cut it into round pieces. If you want to cut a large piece, you can cut it diagonally.

Cut the cucumber

Step2

Add an appropriate amount of salt to the cucumber, grab well, and use water to rinse well. Doing so will cause the water on the surface of the cucumber to be squeezed out, while the salt will penetrate the interior of the cucumber, speeding up the dehydration process, making the water in the cucumber to be drained out and making the cucumber more crisp and tender.

Add some salt

Step3

Cut the green pepper into strips and slice the ginger, pat the garlic.

Get the green pepper, ginger and garlic prepared

Step4

Wash a large tomato, and cut it into slices.

cut the tomato into slices

Step5

Heat oil in the pan, add green pepper and garlic, and stir-fry, then put the tomatoes in, and stir-fry a few times.

Stir fry tomatoes

Step6

After the tomatoes become juicy, add the cucumber slices to the pan. Continue to stir-fry.

Add cucumber slices

Step7

Season with salt and chicken essence.

Season with salt and chicken essence

Step8

Finally, add a small amount of vinegar and sugar, but do not put too much vinegar. The reason for adding vinegar is that it gives the cucumber its distinctive sour taste, and also removes the bitterness from the cucumber, making it more delicious.

The stir-fried cucumbers with tomatoes are done, it looks green crystal clear, also dotted with red tomatoes, as if a little red among the leaves, and looks very attractive. This refreshing dish is suitable for summer!

add a little vinegar and sugar

When you have no appetite, a plate of stir-fried cucumbers with tomatoes, the light and fresh taste can arouse the appetite. There is not much calorie in eating up this plate, it is literally the favorite of fat-loss people, if you also love cucumber, you must try this dish.

Tips：

1. Choose cucumbers with thorns for cooking, the taste will be better, if you want a better color, add water to boil before frying, and put in the cucumber slices to blanch, pay attention not to blanch too long, 10 seconds will do.

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2. Stir-fried cucumbers are crisp, and sometimes soft and tender, if you do not like soft stuff, do not peel the cucumber, cut it into slices, you can add salt and pickle, this will prevent the cucumber from becoming watery while stir-frying and thus getting soft and crumbly.

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