Cucumber Avocado Salad
Refreshing Cucumber Avocado Salad with lemon is a perfect side dish any time of year! Enjoy it along with grilled dishes or add canned tuna to your salad for a high protein meal. Ready in less than 15 minutes!
We are officially in my favorite food season. All the fresh vegetables! I have to say, in Florida we are in this season most of the year, but when the weather is as hot as it is right now all I crave is cool, refreshing salads like this Cucumber Avocado Salad.
I have made this simple salad several times over the last few weeks and each time I make it my daughter and husband dish out the compliments. They are currently the only salad eaters in the family (in addition to me) although my oldest son does like his veggies, just served in a more deconstructed version and not in salad form. I’m good with it.
For this easy cucumber salad recipe, you just need a few ingredients:
- Persian or cocktail cucumbers – I find Persian cucumbers at Trader Joe’s and cocktail cucumbers at Costco or sometimes at my regular grocery store.
- Avocado
- Sweet or Vidalia onion
- Lemon – I use a lemon press like this one to get ALL the juice out.
- Coarse sea salt and fresh ground pepper – try pink Himalayan salt if you have it. I get mine in a grinder at Costco but I see lots of Himalayan pink salt at Home Goods too.
Pretty simple, right?
If you are grilling chicken, shrimp or steak, this cucumber avocado salad would make the PERFECT easy side dish to go on your plate. But if you are like me and are trying to eat more salads at lunch time, then add some canned albacore tuna to a bowl of cucumber avocado salad and squeeze more lemon for a veggie packed, high-protein lunch (or dinner!).
Summer Salads and Side Dishes
I know I’m craving all the simple summer salads and side dishes right now, and there are quite a few I want to try like my friend Lora’s Sweet Summer Corn and Cucumber Salad. We spoke recently about how much we love this time of year because of all the fruits and veggies so we are both planning on sharing more fresh recipes using summer produce like cucumbers, corn, watermelon and tomatoes, just to name a few. It’s fun to have friends who love summer produce (all produce!) as much as you do and exchange ideas.
#FreshSummer 2019 project:
We came up with a theme for each month of our #FreshSummer recipes. For the month of June we chose to share something we both made with cucumbers! Please join Lora and I all summer long with new or your tried and true favorite cucumber recipes. If you make a cucumber recipe, tag us on Instagram with #FreshSummer. Follow us @aggieskitchen and @savoringitaly to see our stories and catch everything delicious! We will be back in July with something else that’s super fresh for your summer kitchen!
Some of my personal favorite summer salads and side dishes:
Spinach Salad with Peaches, Gorgonzola and Almonds
Lemony Green Bean Pasta Salad with Walnuts
Cherry Tomato and Blue Cheese Salad
If you make this cucumber salad recipe or any of my summer side dish recipes please be sure to tag me on Instagram @aggieskitchen #aggieskitchen and #freshsummer!
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Cucumber Avocado Salad
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Prep Time: 15 minutes - Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Salad
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PinRefreshing Cucumber Avocado Salad with lemon is a perfect side dish any time of year! Enjoy it along with grilled dishes or add canned tuna to your salad for a high protein meal. Ready in less than 15 minutes!
Ingredients
- 8 – 10 Persian or cocktail cucumbers, sliced
- 1 sweet Vidalia onion, sliced thin
- 2 avocados, diced
- juice from 1 lemon
- coarse salt and fresh ground pepper
Instructions
- Add cucumber, onion and avocado to a bowl. Squeeze lemon over salad and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Gently toss to combine. Serve immediately.
Notes
Serving suggestions: Add feta, canned tuna, and/or garbanzo beans (for more flavor and protein) or serve with grilled shrimp, chicken, or steak.
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Just love this salad! It’s so fresh and so easy to make. I’m going to be making it all summer long. Love collaborating with you on this project!!
It’s so fresh and so easy to make. I added this salad to my fat loss diet plan. And it’s very easy to make it. Thank you for sharing this recipe. Fitnessmenz
I also added some orange juice. It was super duper tasty. I am going to make it again and again. My sister also loved this.
Just today i make this salad as my afternoon snack and believe me it was really delicious and you also do not have to make much efforts to make it
I like avocado, I always sprinkling them with a pinch of salt and pepper and then eat.
First of all, thanks for your recipe. I also made this salad but my own way. Now I wish to try your recipe. Hope my family will like love it. You’re also invited!!
This is an amazing salad Aggie….and it soo healthy with more easy to make as well….and i will include this salad in my family diet plan…Thanks for sharing…..!
Made it. Loved it. It was that simple and so, so delicious. It’s making a repeat performance for the 4th festivities! Many thanks for another great recipe!
awesome to hear, thank you! Hope you had a wonderful July 4th holiday!
CUCUMBER AVOCADO SALAD ITS A GOOD TASTE THANKS FOR SHARING.
Waohhhh I’m going to make sure my wife prepare this for me, I love eating salad so much.
Thanks much for the notes it really great 😋😋😋😋😋😋
I love this Cucumber avocado salad. Thanks for sharing with us.
There are so many vegetables, which are healthy refreshment and making salad of them is the taste of life.
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My favorite so perfect together and most of all its so easy to prepare!!
Nice Post!!
Quite frankly, I don’t like eating salad that much. But I am willing to try out new recipes for a healthier lifestyle. Hopefully this time it is this salad recipe I’ll finally like to eat.
Wow nice article keep share with us… Thank you.
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Thanks for sharing a lovely and healthy dish.keep posting such type of healthy dish.all the best
Wow… It’s mouth-watering… Love cucumbers especially is summers and it makes it much more special.
The best food ever!so delicious, simple and healthy.i make this kind of salad very often.sometime I eat everyday.i agree avacados are the best and it’s creamy and this recipe is perfect to served with friends and love ones.Thank you!
I was looking for something light to eat around 3 hours before my Yoga class and i think I may have found it in cucumber avocado salad, I made it yesterday before Yoga and it worked a dream. I didn’t feel bloated. Thank you for sharing.
Great and I should try out this awesome salad. I like Avocado but will need to try this. Thanks a lot for the wonderful recipes.
Love the combination of avocados and cucumbers! two of my favorites.
I Will try it ASAP, I think Feta will go great on top of this salad.
Thank you for sharing.
wow its a pass i tried it and loved it
The avocado and cucumber salad was delicious. I used Bermuda onions and the Himalayan salt that you suggested – simply an excellent fresh salad!
Hi Aggie! I always love salad as a side dish and cucumber is one of my favorites. Your recipe seems a perfect side dish. Its easy preparation is one thing for a busy person like me. I make it sure that I will have this for dinner tonight .Thank you.
A very nice and healthy salad I ever seen
Simple cucumber salad is a favorite in our house. I love that you added avocado in for creaminess. I am super excited to give that a try.