Addicting Avocado Cucumber Salad Recipe - Eat Simple Food

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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.
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.
To Peel Or Not Peel The Cucumbers For This 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 than the skin may be thick and bitter and 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 Salad From Getting Soggy
Make sure to seed the cucumber as the seeds contain a lot of water and will make a soggy cucumber 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...
Why Cut Ingredients "on the Bias" / Diagonally?
Slice the green onion "on the bias". This means cut the ingredients diagonally.
Diagonally cut ingredients generally create more surface area than regular slices. This helps to create more surface area to brown vegetables when cooking.
This avocado cucumber salad is raw but the diagonal pieces look pretty, but are also slightly larger for taste and also for soaking up a little more dressing.
Serves 4
Ingredients
• 1 avocado, peeled, seeded, and diced
• 1 cucumber, seeded and diced
• ½ a lime, juiced
• 2 tsp hot sauce - use less if you are sensitive to spice
• ¼ tsp 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!

[@tinarodriguez9120]

I Just tried this recipe and I love it! The lime makes it so refreshing. I Left out the hot sauce because I didn't have any. I used a few shakes of crushed red pepper.👍🥑

[@EatSimpleFoods]

Thank you Tina! It’s such a fast, easy , and simple side. Thanks for letting me know what you added too.