This is my favourite avocado salad. Cooling cucumber with creamy avocado, tangy lime juice, fresh herbs and my secret ingredient – a pinch of red pepper flakes which keeps things interesting!
Avocado Salad – most requested recipe 2023
This is just a great simple recipe for a salad that stars avocados. Actually, it’s the single most requested within my circle of friends in recent times because Australia’s been enjoying a terrific avocado season this year. Cheap, ripe, abundant, big!
So here’s my current favourite avocado salad. A combination of ingredients that just works together so well. I love how the avocado becomes sort of smeary when you toss it, essentially becoming a creamy dressing.
Ingredients in avocado salad
I call this an avocado salad though there’s actually more cucumber in it than avocado. It’s designed to hero avocados but we can’t really just make a salad using only avocados. Lacks texture, and too rich! It would be like having guacamole and calling it a salad. 🙂 (Not that I’m suggesting I have an issue with that!).
Avocados – big and ripe!
Cucumbers – I’m using regular cucumbers here (we call them Lebanese cucumbers), that are around 17cm/7″ long. If using the long telegraph / English cucumbers ~30cm/12″ long, use 1 1/2.
Red pepper flakes (chilli flakes) – Adds the tiniest hum of warmth which goes so well with the cooling cucumber. It’s my “secret ingredient”! But feel free to leave it out.
Red onion – Just a quarter, finely sliced, for freshness.
Fresh herbs – Dill and coriander/cilantro works so well here. One of my favourite herb combinations. Makes this salad even better, but I happily make it without. Put it this way – I wouldn’t make a special trip to the shops to get them unless I was making this for company!
Lime juice and extra virgin olive oil – For the dressing. No need to shake it up today, just pour it over and toss! Lemon can be used instead of lime.
How to make avocado salad
The instructions for this recipe as written in our working files says “chuck everything in and toss”. That’s completely accurate!!!
Chuck everything into a bowl – avocado, cucumber and red onion first, top with herbs, then drizzle/sprinkle all the dressing ingredients over. No need to make the dressing separately for this recipe!
Toss well using your hands, gently separating the avocado and cucumber slices. Tumble into a bowl and serve!
This is first and foremost intended to be a side salad. But don’t restrict yourself! Pile and smush onto toast, or stuff into flatbread to make wraps (you’ll see me add tuna and a squirt of sriracha in the recipe video).
Actually, if you dice the cucumber and avocado up a little smaller, it makes a different salsa for stuffing into tacos or scooping with corn chips. The possibilities! How else can we eat this? Share your suggestions below! – Nagi x
Watch how to make it
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Avocado salad
Ingredients
Salad:
- 2 big ripe avocados , cut into quarters then 1 cm / 0.4″ slices
- 3 cucumbers ~17cm/7" long, sliced into 4mm / 1/6" rounds (Note 1)
- 1/4 red onion , finely sliced
- 2 tbsp dill , finely chopped, optional recommended (Note 2)
- 2 tbsp coriander/cilantro leaves ,roughly chopped, optional recommended (Note 2)
Dressing:
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tbsp lime juice , or lemon juice (or more, adjust to taste!)
- 1/4 tsp chilli flakes / red pepper flakes
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 3/4 tsp cooking / kosher salt
Instructions
- Put all the salad ingredients in large bowl. Drizzle over lime juice and oil, sprinkle with salt, pepper and red chilli flakes.
- Toss gently using your hands, gently separating the avocado slices as you go. Taste and add more lime if you want.
- Tumble into a bowl and serve!
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
Life of Dozer
Today’s recipe is so simple there’s more Dozer than avocado salad in the recipe video. The right ratio, as far as I’m concerned!
made this tonight as a quick salad to go with dinner on a 41* day in SA, went down a treat and the family loved it. A definite do again.
Another winner winner…..so quick & easy… 5 min to make..esp when prime huge Avo’s are $1.50 ea …loving it in NZ
Glad to hear they’re ripe and cheap over there too!! 🙂 N xx
I made it this afternoon cut recipe in half and ate the whole thing myself… I probably would have eaten the whole recipe if I made it. This is the 2nd recipe of your that I tried, I am a big fan of yours
He he I love hearing that, I DO THAT TOO!! N xx
I love avocado salad thanks so much
You’re so welcome! Hope you get a chance to try it 🙂 N x
Thanks Nagi, so tasty and yet so very quick & easy to put together. We have lunchbox cucumbers ready for picking in our garden so the timing could not have been better.
Glad you enjoyed it Jan! Thanks for letting me know – N x
This looks delicious and will be on the table this week-end, with one minor alteration.
As my family LOATHES the taste of raw onions, they will be ‘pickled’ in the salt and lime juice for half an hour, before adding them to the salad.
I found this tip in one of your previous salad recipes and have found it life-changing.
I love that Dozer knows not to cross ‘Dozer boundary’ tape on the floor.
It is the onions, rather than the family, which will pe ‘pickled’. 🙂
Will have to try this recipe. Never thought of using dill & cilantro together. Love the presentation, enthusiasm & humour. Keep up the great work. Those are my thoughts from Canada, where it’s not exactly salad season — but for this I’ll make an exception. 🙂
Hello NagI “This is a fantastic avocado salad recipe – so simple to make yet incredibly flavorful! I love how the avocado becomes creamy when tossed, creating a natural dressing that coats all the ingredients beautifully. The combination of textures and flavors is perfect – the crunch of the radishes, the freshness of the herbs, and the richness of the avocado all come together perfectly. This salad is definitely a crowd-pleaser, and I’ll be making it again and again!”
When I said to my husband we are having cucumber and avocado salad with our pasta. He was not that impressed. It’s cold here in Ireland and it’s raining. I added a small amount of chilli flakes which makes the salad sing hubby loved it thanks Nagi He cooked the chicken pasta by the way
Love this and the new videos.
Love love love this new look Nagi! I’m a big fan of your old vids but the interactive concept is even better! Can’t wait to try this recipe and add on mangoes as suggested by some here.
I’ve been making this recipe (minus cilantro) for years. Just wanted to say I’m glad to see you in your cooking videos.
As always, thanks for your great recipes & videos! Gentle question: Have you tried cutting the avocado in half, then pressing on the back of the half with the pit? If it’s ripe, it pops out very easily, and avoids the possibility of avocado-related hospital trips.
If it’s really ripe you should be able to just peel the skin off with your fingers.
this is the first time I ever peeled an avocado like an orange…the skin just peeled off easily in huge pieces.
Ever since a friend cut the tip of her finger off doing this, I place the avocado half on the cutting board and then whack the pit with the knife. No hands involved.
your salad is very good
salutation to Dozer
From Quebec in Canada
The new ‘interactive’ video’s are DYNAMITE, Nagi! Hard to believe your site could get any better, but it just did! Thanks!
Love seeing you in this new video format!
Love the new videos, Nagi!!
Once again, great recipe.
Very,very good,something to keep.
Thank you very much!
Made to have with frajitas tonight..yum…it will be my go to when I have an overstock of avos. So fresh and the hint of chilli was perfect.