For gardeners, summer can be a time of never-ending cucumbers and tomatoes. Even if you don’t grow your own, the supermarkets and farmer’s markets are loaded with summer produce. Here’s a tasty salad that goes great with grilled chicken or fish and is oh so easy to make. Use cucumbers with heirloom tomatoes, but even grape or cherry tomatoes work well too.

This fast and tasty dish could be eaten for brunch, a light summer lunch, or a dinner side dish. Chilled Nectarine Salad is perfect for days when it’s way too hot to cook. The dressing is a simple balsamic and extra-virgin olive oil mix with a touch of maple syrup. Want a lighter oil? Try grape seed oil. Yum!

Nectarine Salad With Cucumbers & Tomatoes
Use organic when available. Serves 4
Nectarine Salad With Cucumbers & Tomatoes
Ingredients
Salad
- 1 large nectarine ripe, pitted, thinly sliced or chopped
- 2 tomatoes chopped
- 3/4 large cucumber peeled and cubed
- 3 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro or parsley
- 3 tbsp crumbled goat cheese (or feta)
Dressing
- 6 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil or grape seed oil
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 3 tsp maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp salt and cracked black pepper
Instructions
Dressing
- Mix ingredients in a glass jar with lid
- Shake well before using
Salad
- Combine nectarine, cucumber, tomato, cilantro in a bowl
- Drizzle 2 tablespoons of dressing over salad and gently stir
- Garnish with feta cheese
- Serve chilled on a hot summer day
Enjoy!

This post was featured at:

Thanks for the visit. Get exclusive free printables & all the news straight to your mailbox!
Please see my Link Parties page for the parties where this post was shared.
This looks very tasty indeed! I often use the same ingredients to go with pasta, to make it more filling (albeit perhaps not quite as healthy) x #MMBC
…this looks great, I see squash the size of baseball bats!
This looks really yummy and sounds really easy. Thank you for sharing :o)
#MMBC
This sounds so easy and such good fall flavors!
Hi Carol, I do like a nice roasted veggie dish. We are limited to what squash we get here, but the good thing is I had butternut squash plants grow on our compost heap from the butternut squash we ate in the winter and it looks like we will be harvesting a few! Courgettes are in abundance at the moment, which I do believe is what you call zucchini. I do like a bit of spiciness too. When it cools down enough to want to put the oven on again I will give this recipe a try.
xx
It’s amazing that the butternut squash is growing in the compost heap. I would have thought the heat would have prevented it. Congrats! New squash to eat!
That does sound yummy. I love this time of year when there’s so much fresh food available. My tomatoes and squashes aren’t ready yet, but my courgettes/zucchinis are making up for it. Will give this one a go. Thank you for sharing.#MMBC
Healthy AND delicious!
This looks delicious! The perfect seasonal summer side dish I think #MMBC
this sounds delicious. I’m saving this!!
thanks for the save!
That does sound so good! Now I am kicking myself for not buying the tomatoes I was eyeing at the farm stand. I bought lots of summer squash though as I just can not get enough of the stuff. I was planning on roasting it to serve with the turkey I have cooking in the crock pot tonight.
That sounds really good to me – turkey!
Carol,
This sounds really good!! I think I will be giving this a try! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Hugs,
Debbie
have a great day!
This is my kind of dish. That’s why I love my farmers’ market so much. I will definitely try this one. TFS
this one is one of my favorite simple side dishes
Yum, I am ready for this delicious side dish. Pinning!
Have a great day,
Kippi
thanks for the pin – God bless!
What beautiful summer squash, Carol. I love this how colourful, healthy and delicious this recipe is! Thank you so much for being a part of the Hearth and Soul link Party.
Oh just yummy!! Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party. Have a wonderful week!
Yum! I LOVE roasted veggies.
I have tomatoes growing in my garden but they’re not quite ready yet.
This sounds like a very tasty, refreshing salad. My girls are not usually keen on salad but I think they would love this.
We tend to do quite well with tomatoes and often get given cucumbers from a friend’s garden.
sounds like great salads to me!
That looks yum. I would love it.. the husband on the other hand hates tomatoes.
you could make 2 smaller salads one with tomatoes and one without – but it is more work.
that sounds wonderful; you have had several salad recipes that we’ve loved; this one looks like another. It’s just started to be too hot to cook here in Oregon. So perfect timing for me
Happy Salad Time Sallie – hot weather is the perfect time to have cold meals.
What a refreshing Summer salad! It’s truly the perfect blend of sweet and savory!
This sounds yummy. We grow our own tomatoes ,cucumbers and parsley, so always looking at fun ways to use them up. Already have nectarines, so just need to pick up goat cheese and I’ll give this one a go. Thank you for sharing.
I hope you like it
I love cucumbers (I eat them like an orange — from the cuke, like a banana!). But until this year I never thought about pairing them with fruit. Sounds delish!
small bits of fruit added to a salad makes it so special I think
Whats not to love about this salad!
thanks Jan