Everything you love about guacamole but in a salad. Creamy avocado, tomatoes, red onion, chilli and cilantro make this Guacamole salad irresistible.
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Full recipe + amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
- Ripe avocado.Ā
- Cherry tomatoes.Ā
- Red onion.Ā
- Cilantro / Coriander.Ā
- Chilli. I used bird’s eye chilli / Thai chilli.
- Fresh lime juice.Ā
- Olive oil.Ā
- Salt and pepper.
How to make guacamole salad
- Mise en place:Ā Peel and slice the avocado into slices/chunks, whichever you prefer. Drizzle over a little lime juice to prevent the avocado from browning. Halve the cherry tomatoes and thinly slice the red onion. Finely chop/slice the chilli and pick the leaves off of cilantro/coriander stems.
- Assemble:Ā Combine the salad ingredients in a large bowl and pour over the olive oil, lime juice and season with salt and pepper. Gently toss and serve.
- Food stylist trick: As you’ll know if you’ve ever tossed a salad with avocado in it, it tends to smoosh a little and make everything around it creamy. While that’s not a problem, I prefer to gently assemble this salad to avoid that. I place the different components, almost in layers, in my serving dish of choice. Whisk the dressing together and pour over then very gently lift and toss the salad to avoid the avocado breaking up too much. This is of course 100% just for appearance-sake and I don’t do this all the time but if you’re serving to guests, this is a nice touch.
Can I make this ahead?
The avocado will brown if sliced too far in advance. The tomatoes, onion and chilli can all be prepped an hour in advance and then combined with the avocado and dressing before serving.
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Guacamole Salad
Everything you love about guacamole but in a salad. Creamy avocado, tomatoes, red onion, chilli and cilantro make this Guacamole salad irresistible.
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Servings: 8
Calories: 206kcal
Ingredients
- 4 avocados thinly sliced
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 red onion thinly sliced
- large handful fresh parsley/coriander
- 1 red chilli finely chopped (optional)
for the dressing
- juice of 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt & pepper to taste I used fresh white pepper
Instructions
- Place the sliced avocado, cherry tomatoes and red onion on a large platter/bowl and scatter over the herbs and chilli.
- Mix all the dressing ingredients and pour over the salad.
- Serve immediately.
Nutrition
Calories: 206kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 12mg | Potassium: 607mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 382IU | Vitamin C: 28mg | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1mg
This looks so fresh and fabulous. Think that I’ll make this tomorrow and add some sliced skirt steak!
That’s a great idea Robin.
This sounds delicious, and the photos are beautiful! I’ll take guacamole any way I can get it š
Hi, just found your site via the Kitchen Daily Curator Network. Looking forward to checking out more of your recipes and your site.
What a delicious salad – I wish tomato season didn’t just end. Marking this for next summer; but checking out what dishes I can make from your site until then!
Denise, thanks for visiting. š As we are just going into Summer you’re bound to found some yummy Autumn & Winter dishes. I cooked up a storm this past season. š I look forward to seeing what you’re going to make!
Yuummmyy! Here in Spain, we frequently have this salad as a meal in summer, with the addition of crispy chunks of spicy chorizo – deeelish!
Gareth, the addition of chorizo sounds incredible!
I just made this… Oh, dear. Soo good. And I pilled some of it on warm ciabatta… It really is very good!
Glad you liked it!
OOh! i was just trying find a salad to go with my roast chicken tonight š yay! thank you!
I hope you like it as much as I did!