This addicting, simple, and easy avocado cucumber salad recipe is tossed gently in hot sauce and fresh lime juice and garnished with sliced green onions.
Simple Avocado Cucumber Salad Recipe
This simple avocado cucumber salad represents the flavor, crispness, and freshness of summer. A little hot sauce and lime juice bring out some heat and tartness.
Make this cucumber avocado salad recipe right before you eat it. It's hard to make it ahead of time because the avocado will start to brown even though the lime juice inhibits the browning a wee bit.
Good news, it only takes a couple minutes to make!
Cucumbers For This Avocado Salad Recipe
Generally speaking, cucumber peels add fiber, taste, and texture to this salad recipe, so keep them on.
Having said that, if the cucumbers are older the skin may be thick and bitter and may need to be peeled.
Point is: buy English or Persian cucumbers that have a thinner skin or younger cucumbers in order to leave the cucumber peel on.
Seed The Cucumbers To Keep The Avocado Salad From Getting Soggy
Make sure to seed the cucumber as the seeds contain a lot of water and will make a soggy cucumber avocado salad.
Seed cucumbers by cutting in half lengthwise and running a ¼ teaspoon up the length of the cucumber (see video).
Don't like to waste? Cool - save the seeds and add them to a pitcher with water. Strain out the seeds later for a refreshing glass of cucumber water.
Variations on Avocado Cucumber Salad
Toss avocado and cucumber salad with the desired amount of hot sauce. Add more if you like it spicier.
Like your salads chunky? Make bigger dices for the avocado and cucumber. I like it a bit smoother so I make smaller dices. Cucumber avocado salad is easier to gently stir if the ingredient dices are larger.
This is a simple avocado cucumber salad recipe. Having said that, bulk it up with some other of your favorite ingredients: sunflower seeds or other nuts, feta cheese, fresh tomatoes, chickpeas, etc...
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Addicting Avocado and Cucumber Salad
This addicting and easy diced avocado cucumber salad recipe is tossed gently in spicy hot sauce and fresh lime juice and garnished with sliced green onions.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: No Cooking Involved
- Cuisine: International
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
- 1 avocado, peeled, seeded, and diced
- 1 cucumber, seeded and diced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ a lime, juiced
- 2 teaspoon hot sauce - use less if you are sensitive to spice
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- pinch black pepper
- 2 green onions, sliced as optional garnish
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a bowl and gently fold in all ingredients except green onions.
- Add salt and hot sauce to taste.
- Garnish with sliced green onions. Happy eating!
Notes
- Like it chunky? Make bigger dices. I like it a bit smoother so I make smaller dices. It is easier to gently stir if the dices are larger.
- Slice the green onion "on the bias". This means cut it diagonally. It creates a more surface area and is a different cut than you may be used to. This salad is raw but cooking vegetables on the bias creates more room for them to brown in a pan instead of steam.
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This is so good! I made it for breakfast! The new avocado toast.
Sounds delicious Karena!