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Home Veg and Salad Sides Avocado

My favourite Avocado Salad

By:Nagi
Published:8 Nov '23Updated:8 Nov '23
68 Comments
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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!

Bowl of Avocado Salad

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.

Close up of Avocado Salad

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.

Making Avocado Salad

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!!!

  1. 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!

  2. Toss well using your hands, gently separating the avocado and cucumber slices. Tumble into a bowl and serve!

Making avocado salad

Favourite Avocado Salad on toast

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


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Close up of Avocado Salad

Avocado salad

Author: Nagi
Prep: 10 minutes mins
Total: 10 minutes mins
Side Salad
Western
4.60 from 20 votes
Servings4 – 6
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Recipe video above. This is my favourite avocado salad. Cooling cucumber with creamy avocado, tangy lime juice, optional fresh herbs and my secret ingredient – a pinch of red pepper flakes which keeps things interesting! Doesn't make it spicy, more of a slight cooling hum of earthy warmth.

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:

1. Cucumbers – If using the long telegraph / English cucumbers ~30cm/12″ long, use 1 1/2.
2. Fresh herbs – Fresh dill and coriander adds lovely fresh herbiness but I wouldn’t make a special trip to the shops just to get them! Do it for company 🙂
If you’re one of those coriander haters, use an extra 1 tbsp of dill or substitute with parsley.
3. Leftovers will keep until the next day (and the avocado stays green!) but as with most salads, it’s best made fresh.
Nutrition per serving assuming 5 servings.

Nutrition Information:

Calories: 229cal (11%)Carbohydrates: 12g (4%)Protein: 3g (6%)Fat: 21g (32%)Saturated Fat: 3g (19%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 14gSodium: 359mg (16%)Potassium: 657mg (19%)Fiber: 7g (29%)Sugar: 3g (3%)Vitamin A: 275IU (6%)Vitamin C: 17mg (21%)Calcium: 39mg (4%)Iron: 1mg (6%)
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68 Comments

  1. Violaine Joly says

    December 7, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    Oh what a yummy salad, the creaminess of the avocado and the crunchy cucumber were made for each other.
    Yummy

    Reply
  2. Jan says

    December 1, 2023 at 8:31 pm

    5 stars
    This simple salad is simply DEVINE!

    Reply
  3. Elise Jones says

    November 30, 2023 at 6:45 pm

    5 stars
    Wow – The Avocado Salad- what a winner!! Speaks summer fresh and full of flavor and so quick to make!
    It was a hit at our table!

    Reply
  4. Kelli says

    November 30, 2023 at 1:24 pm

    5 stars
    This is such an easy salad, but gives a lot of bang for your buck. Will definitely be making a lot with summer BBQ’s. Thanks for another great recipe, Nagi!

    Reply
  5. Robyn Grimshaw says

    November 30, 2023 at 10:18 am

    5 stars
    Love this recipe, so easy.

    Reply
  6. Caroline says

    November 30, 2023 at 5:19 am

    5 stars
    Made this a few weeks ago and it was delicious. Just exchanged the dill for a mix of fresh soft herbs that I have growing, because dill is not one of my favourites. An absolute hit!

    Reply
  7. Anne McKenzie says

    November 29, 2023 at 6:27 pm

    5 stars
    Love this salad.
    I serve it with so many things as it goes with everything.
    Fresh, delicious and easy to put together.

    Reply
  8. Lyn says

    November 26, 2023 at 10:59 am

    Hi Navi, can avocado salad b made in advance?

    Reply
  9. Nannykat says

    November 26, 2023 at 3:45 am

    Love this salad dressing, only difference I made was leaving out the cilantro since it tastes like soap to me. Add parsley instead and it turned out fantastic. Another great recipe Nagi.

    Reply
  10. Teknik Industri says

    November 19, 2023 at 11:33 am

    Your avocado salad seems to strike a perfect balance between creamy avocados and refreshing cucumbers. Can you share more about your decision to use dill and coriander/cilantro as the primary herbs? Tel U

    Reply
  11. Maurice says

    November 17, 2023 at 12:17 pm

    Hi Nagi.
    Made this Avo salad YumYum My kids could not get enough of it
    Thank you

    Reply
  12. Ren says

    November 13, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    5 stars
    Hi Nagi,

    This is SO tasty. I added a tiny amount of mint leaves, as have it growing in my garden.
    I understand if some people find it on the sour side, however, I like that aspect. It balances out the creaminess of the avocadoes.

    Thank you for another winning recipe.

    Reply
  13. Jill Marie Fenn says

    November 12, 2023 at 5:06 pm

    Ate it straight out of the bowl I mixed it in. SO delicious. Thankyou Nagi and Dozer.

    Reply
  14. Kay Campbell says

    November 12, 2023 at 11:12 am

    Loved this, so quick and easy. I added fresh peeled prawns, yummy 🙂

    Reply
  15. Jean Morrison says

    November 11, 2023 at 9:35 pm

    3 stars
    Mine tasted bitter. The dill and coriander were freshly picked from the garden so I can only assume it was either the extra virgin olive oil or the lime juice. I must admit it was bottled lime juice and not fresh. Pity really.

    Reply
  16. Melanie says

    November 11, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    5 stars
    I made this tonight as I was after something simple to go with prawns. So easy, made in in about 5 minutes and absolutely delish! Definitely going on my regular rotation 😍

    Reply
  17. Stu says

    November 11, 2023 at 11:43 am

    2 stars
    I made it today, it needed some sweetness so I added a chopped sweet apple which added to the crunch and a pinch of sugar. It was a hit!

    Reply
  18. Esther says

    November 11, 2023 at 10:52 am

    2 stars
    Not our fave, found it a little sour. Hubby wouldn’t eat it, but I’d try again and sweeten it.

    Reply
    • Esther says

      November 11, 2023 at 11:16 am

      Sorry for the double-up post! Computer said No.

      Reply
  19. Esther says

    November 11, 2023 at 10:28 am

    Liked the idea of this but found it too sour, not to our liking. Will look for a different dressing to add.

    Reply
  20. Gilli says

    November 10, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    Oh my! SO GOOD!! My family of five devoured this with herbed grilled chicken and roast potato and it immediately went on my ‘recipes we love’ list! Even my not an avocado fan daughter ate it! 🥰

    Reply
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