Chunky Avocado Salad and Salsa
Our Chunky Avocado Salad and Avocado Salsa are two recipes for delicious-tasting and healthy salads. These recipes only takes a few minutes to prepare are ideal to serve as a side to compliment any grilled steak or seafood entrée.
Chunky Avocado Salad
An excellent salad made with chunks of fresh avocado, freshly chopped tomatoes, black olives, and green onions and tossed with a lemon vinaigrette.
Easy to make, this chunky avocado salad is a very healthy salad and one you will enjoy all summer long! For more easy recipes like this salad, try our Italian Tomato Salad, and our Cucumber and Vidalia Onion Salad.
Reasons To Love Avocados:
Avocado’s have many nutritional benefits:
- They have been found to contribute to the prevention and control of Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other health conditions.
- The avocado is a high-fiber, sodium and cholesterol-free food.
- It also provides nearly 20 essential nutrients, including fiber, and is rich in healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats (such as omega-3 fatty acids), vitamins A, C, D, E, K and including the B vitamins, B-6, B-12 and folate, as well as potassium.
- Foods naturally rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as avocados, are widely acknowledged as the secret to a healthy heart, a brilliant brain and outstanding eye sight.
Our Easy Avocado Salsa Recipe:
This avocado salad is really versatile! You can change it up and add different ingredients to this salad, making it your very own.
- Don’t be afraid to add in some black beans, sweet corn, red onions, maybe some fresh chopped cilantro into the mix.
- One can get very creative here. Have fun making it!
- Plus, this avocado salad can be easily turn into a Chunky Avocado Salsa!
Our Avocado salsa is kid-friendly too. Sometimes I will make an avocado salsa and serve it with tortilla chips or pita crackers. It gives me some time to prepare dinner while the whole family snacks on the salsa, and keeps them happy!
Try this recipe! I think you will enjoy it as much as my family does.
Cheers!
More Delicious Recipes, try these:
- Simple and Easy Spicy Salsa
- Fresh Orange Avocado Salsa
- Shrimp Avocado Salsa Dip
- Easy Mexican Spicy Bean Dip
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Chunky Avocado Salad and Avocado Salsa
Chunky Avocado Salad and Avocado Salsa ~ are two recipes for our chunky avocado salad and avocado salsa which only takes a few minutes to prepare and will compliment any grilled steak or seafood entrée'.
Ingredients
- 2 to 3 medium avocados- coarsely chopped
- 2 to 3 tomatoes- chopped
- 1/2 cup black olives - chopped
- 1/3 cup green onions -chopped
- 1 lemon juiced (about 2 Tbsp.)
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
Instructions
- FOR CHUNKY AVOCADO SALAD:
- Whisk together lemon juice, olive oil with salt and pepper.
- Cut avocados and tomatoes into bite-size pieces. Place them into a serving bowl.
- Add the chop olives and green onions.
- Pour the lemon vinaigrette into the bowl and gently toss to coat. Serve immediately.
FOR AVOCADO SALSA:
Use the same ingredients as above and add in additional ingredients, such as: black beans, sweet corn, red onions, and some fresh chopped cilantro into the mix.
Notes
Best to keep avocados in your refrigerator before using them, this way they are already chilled and ready to use.
Best to have all ingredients chilled before making the salad or salsa.
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Simple and beautiful – yum! Have a wonderful weekend ladies!
Hi Dan! Thank you for stopping by! We're coming over to see what's cook over by you.
Wonderful looking post, ladies! Thanks for sharing, I love avocados and all the different ways to incorporate them into our family's diet. Great job!!