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Merriam Webster says :
*any of various usually cold dishes: such as
a: raw greens (such as lettuce) often combined with other vegetables and toppings and served especially with dressing
b: small pieces of food (such as pasta, meat, fruit, or vegetables) usually mixed with a dressing (such as mayonnaise) or set in gelatin*
As such, even just cucumber would suffice.
Edit: in dutch, a "salade" has to accompanied by a dressing or vinaigrette, thus very much limiting what a salad is.
Just cucumber with yoghurt, some chopped dill, salt pepper and olive oil is a great salad. Add lots of garlic and it's a simple ~~Zaziki~~ ~~Tsaziki~~ ~~Zatziki~~ greek garlic dip.
To bolster your point I regularly make something I call cucumber onion salad with cucumber, white onion, and oil w herbs, salt and pepper. To me, it's a salad if it focuses on seasoned raw ingredients, esp vegetables, served cold. There's also the confusion over things like chicken/tuna/egg deli salads focused on being eaten as a sandwich or w crackers, and Midwest "salads" for which all rules seem to be moot except that it's likely served cold.
Cut is as a prep step and it becomes a salad.
Those ingredients you listed are literally the ingredients to a dish called cucumber salad. Though usually the dressing is more of an vinegary Italian dressing instead of ranch. Just Google it.
For me a salad is minimum of two uncooked ingredients.
What about potato salad, noodle salad and similar dishes containing cooked components?
My girlfriend calls lettuce salad. A bowl of lettuce she calls a salad
I've often had spinach, some shredded cheese, and a vinaigrette and called it salad.
I mean when you put chopped iceberg lettuce and tomatoes, it's a salad... So... Two?
Last time I tossed a salad it was two ingredients, so I think you're correct.
There is a centuries-old simple salad recipe involving just cucumbers, onions, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper.
Anyone saying you can't have a salad out of cucumber, onions, and dressing...is wrong.
Or the centuries-old salad recipe is wrong?
I have no opinion on this matter. I am merely being contradictory.
Potato and Mayo = potato salad. So I would say two is the minimum. A bowl of lettuce on its own is not a salad. A salad is a classification of coke, (mainly) vegetable based dishes.
Two ingredients and a "dressing" is a salad.
If no dressing, then three ingredients or more.
Also, chicken caeser salad is a salad, and it has starch/bread.