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!
SO YUM!
This salad was so fresh & flavoursome. I didn’t add the chillli or lime – but it was delicious! Can’t wait to try it with the lime & chilli.
I served it with some grilled chicken.
Such a scrummy dairy & gluten free recipe ! Thank you 👏
This was absolutely delightful! I love the simple lime juice and olive oil dressing. I’ll be making this side dish often. Thanks Nagi!
This was so delicious! Exchange the cilantro for parsley, since cilantro and I are not friends. Other than that, I stuck to the recipe exactly and it was fantastic! Just such fresh, bright flavors! I see why this is one of your favorites and I think it may be one of mine now as well! Thanks for another top notch recipe!
Loved it the flavours used dried dill and parsley this hint of chilly really makes it
Your recipe is amazing !! The mix of ingredients perfect! Also, I like the way you write, your suggestions for different ways of doing things. Thank you for all the wonderful recipes!
Delicious! I will make this again when we have more avocados.
The storms have meant no boats and supplies.
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very good blog.. thank you..
Absolutely divine.. perfect summer salad!
Made it for lunch today but with a little bit of watercress. The herbs combo was incredible! Had it with tinned smoked kipper on toast topped with the salad. Gorgeous!!
Oh what a yummy salad, the creaminess of the avocado and the crunchy cucumber were made for each other.
Yummy
This simple salad is simply DEVINE!
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!
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!
Love this recipe, so easy.
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!
Left out the cilantro and this salad still came out beautifully!! Definitely a new favourite.
Love this salad.
I serve it with so many things as it goes with everything.
Fresh, delicious and easy to put together.
Hi Navi, can avocado salad b made in advance?
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.