Tomato Salsa with Cucumber Chips

There is absolutely nothing like homemade tomato salsa with cucumber made with fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes and cucumbers. Don’t you agree? All the ingredients in this robust tomato salsa provide many health benefits on their own and when combined provide a salsa that will have your family and guests coming back for more. Adding cucumbers as “chips” or even in the salsa itself, as well as other fresh veggies if you like, makes this entire recipe low calorie, vegan and perfect for your next cookout and/or beautiful for a luncheon snack table. Enjoy!

Tomato Salsa with Cucumber Chips Recipe

TOTAL TIME: 20 MIN | SERVINGS: 6

Always use organic ingredients when available.

Ingredients

1 1/4 pounds tomatoes, finely chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped sweet onion
1/2 cup finely chopped cilantro
1 small jalapeño, seeded and minced
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Himalayan salt and freshly ground pepper
1 large seedless cucumber, sliced 1/4 inch thick

Directions

In a bowl, toss the tomatoes with the onion, cilantro, jalapeño and lime juice and season with salt and pepper. Serve the salsa with the cucumber chips for dipping.

Notes One Serving 38 cal, 0.4 gm fat, 0 gm sat fat, 8 gm carb, 1.5 gm fiber.

Loretta Lanphier is a Naturopathic Practitioner (Traditional), Certified Clinical Nutritionist, Holistic Health Practitioner and Certified Clinical Herbalist as well as the CEO / Founder of Oasis Advanced Wellness in The Woodlands TX. She has studied and performed extensive research in health science, natural hormone balancing, anti-aging techniques, nutrition, natural medicine, weight loss, herbal remedies, non-toxic cancer support and is actively involved in researching new natural health protocols and products. A 14 year stage 3 colon cancer survivor, Loretta is able to relate to both-sides-of-the-health-coin as patient and practitioner when it comes to health and wellness. “My passion is counseling others about what it takes to keep the whole body healthy using natural and non-toxic methods.” Read Loretta’s health testimony Cancer: The Path to Healing. Loretta is Contributor and Editor of the worldwide E-newsletter Advanced Health & Wellness.