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Cucumber Avocado Salad (10-Minute Lunch)

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This 5-ingredient cucumber avocado salad is a healthy recipe for a quick lunch or side to BBQ meat.

This easy salad recipe is also a vegetarian recipe perfect for those looking for meat-free recipes.

Keto Cucumber Avocado salad

If you like my Cucumber Yogurt Salad, my Asian Cucumber Salad, or my Keto Cucumber Salad, you’ll love this simple salad recipe.

How To Make Cucumber Avocado Salad

A cucumber avocado salad is one of the easiest salads to make for a quick light lunch or to serve as a side to grilled meat.

Ingredients

All you need to make a simple cucumber salad with avocado are:

  • English cucumber – feel free to peel your cucumber if you like, but keeping the cucumber skin adds texture and fiber to your salad.
  • Ripe avocado – make sure your avocados are not overripe, with no dark spot on the flesh, or it will add a bitter aftertaste to your salad.
  • Cherry tomatoes – cucumber, tomato, and avocado salads are the best! Of course, for fewer carbs, you can skip the tomatoes, but the combination of the three keto vegetables tastes amazing.
  • Pine nuts – that the secret ingredients to add a crunchy, nutty flavor to this keto avocado cucumber salad! You can replace it with any seeds or nuts you like, but pine nuts are very low in carbs and add the best taste to this salad.
  • Fresh herb of choice – Italian flat parsley or mint or cilantro.
Cucumber Avocado Tomato Salad

Chopping Vegetables

Cucumber

First, trim the cucumber ends and chop them into cubes. Feel free to peel the cucumber entirely, halfway or not, based on your preferences. Place the chopped cucumbers onto a large bowl. Set aside.

Tomatoes

Then, chop the tomatoes in quarters and add them to the mixing bowl with the cucumber cubes.

Avocados

Next, cut the avocados into cubes.

To do so, slice the avocado lengthwise until your knife hits the pit. Remove the knife, and rotate both avocado halves clockwise to split. Remove the pit.

Then, using the tip of the knife, draw lines in the avocado flesh to form cubes – see picture below.

Using a spoon, scoop out the flesh from the avocado. It will form cubes of different sizes that you cut recut into smaller pieces on a chopping board if desired.

Add into the salad bowl.

How to make Avocado Cucumber salad

Serving The Salad

Before serving the salad, toast pine nuts and prepare the salad dressing you love choosing one of the low-carb keto dressing recipes suggested below.

Toasting The Pine Nuts

Finally, toast the pine nuts in a frying pan with a drizzle of garlic olive oil or no oil at all, both options works. Stir fry for 1-2 minutes until roasted and golden brown.

Stir in the hot pine nuts into the salad just before serving.

Parsley

Finely chop herbs just before serving the salad. If you don’t like flat Italian parsley, you can use other fresh herbs that marry well with avocado and cucumber, like:

  • Fresh mint
  • Cilantro
  • Dill

Serve the salad immediately with the dressing on the side.

Other Add-On Ingredients

Of course, you can play with flavors and add some more ingredients to this simple cucumber avocado salad recipe, including:

  • Red onion – if you are on a strict keto diet, watching your carbs closely, don’t go overboard with red onion. They are on the high-carb side.
  • Olives
  • Feta cheese
  • Goat cheese
  • Cheddar
  • Bacon bites
  • Hard-Boiled Eggs – You can make my Air Fryer Hard Boiled Eggs for a quick and easy recipe.
  • Jammy Eggs – Learn how to easily make Jammy Eggs.

Storage Instructions

You can store this gluten-free salad in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 day. After that time, the avocado color and texture change.

It gets darker and bitter, so you can’t store this salad much longer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Make Ahead My Cucumber Avocado Salad?

Yes, you can make this salad the day before.

But, if you are making this cucumber avocado salad ahead, store the chopped vegetables in an airtight container in the fridge, and don’t cut the avocados more than a few hours before serving for best taste and color.

Also, to prevent the avocados from browning too fast, you can squeeze some lemon juice on them.

Which Cucumbers To Use In The Salad?

You can use the three most common cucumber varieties to make cucumber salads, including:

  • English cucumber – this variety is long, narrow, seedless, and perfect for cucumber salads.
  • Persian cucumber – these cucumbers are smaller and a bit more expensive but taste great in salads.
  • American cucumber – this variety often contains more seeds and can be bitter or watery. For salads, it is recommended to core American cucumbers to avoid a watery salad.

How Can I Serve This Salad?

This keto cucumber avocado salad recipe makes a delicious side dish for grilled meat or summer BBQ.

It’s also a delicious and fulfilling lunch served with a slice of toasted bread.

Avocado Cucumber salad

Salad Dressing For Cucumber Salad

The best salad dressing options for your avocado cucumber tomato salad are listed below.

You can choose from a creamy ranch dressing or thousand island dressing, which boosts your fat macros if you serve this salad as a complete keto lunch.

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Keto Cucumber Avocado salad

Cucumber Avocado Salad

4.2gNet Carbs
This healthy Cucumber Avocado Salad is ready in 15 minutes and that is also vegan-friendly.
Prep: 15 minutes
Total: 15 minutes
Yield: 4 servings (1 cup)
Serving Size: 1 serving (1 cup)
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Ingredients

Dressing

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Instructions

  • Trim the English cucumber ends. Keep their skin on or peel off if you prefer. Cut cucumber halfway lengthwise, then cut into small cubes. Set aside in a large bowl.
  • Cut the cherry tomatoes in quarters. Set aside in the bowl with diced cucumbers.
  • Cut avocados in half until you hit the stone. Then, with your hands, rotate both avocado parts to open. Next, remove the stone and, using a sharp knife, cut the flesh into cubes – see my picture above in this post for tips and tricks.
  • Slide a spoon under the skin of your avocado to release the cut avocado cubes. Set aside in the mixing bowl.
  • Just before serving, fry the pine nuts over medium heat in a non-stick frying pan. You don't need to add oil, but you can add 1 teaspoon of olive oil if desired. Stir fry for 1 minute until the nuts are hot, roasted, and fragrant.
  • Serve the salad immediately with hot pine nuts, freshly chopped herbs, and an Italian dressing or ranch dressing.

Store

  • Store the salad for up to 24 hours in the fridge in an airtight container. Store the dressing in a separate sealed container.
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Serving Size: 1 serving (1 cup)
Yield: 4 servings (1 cup)
Serving: 1serving (1 cup)Calories: 75.8kcal (4%)Carbohydrates: 5.2g (2%)Fiber: 1g (4%)Net Carbs: 4.2gProtein: 2g (4%)Fat: 6.1g (9%)Saturated Fat: 0.5g (3%)Sodium: 9.1mgPotassium: 240.8mg (7%)Sugar: 2.3g (3%)Vitamin A: 523IU (10%)Vitamin C: 13mg (16%)Calcium: 21.5mg (2%)Iron: 1.1mg (6%)Magnesium: 35.3mg (9%)Zinc: 0.8mg (5%)
Keto Cucumber Avocado Salad
Carine Claudepierre

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Carine Claudepierre

Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.

I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.

I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet

Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!

All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.

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    4 Thoughts On Cucumber Avocado Salad (10-Minute Lunch)
  1. 5 stars
    A nice variation to my usual Greek Salad swapping out feta with the addition of
    Avocado and pine nuts and or seeds. It is very good.

  2. I absolutely cannot wait to try this recipe! I love cucumbers and avocados and think this will be a light and fresh lunch!

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