Avocado Salad Recipe : Creamy N Crunchy Salad!

Avocado Salad

• Author: Karishma Shah
• Recipe Category: Salads

Description: The Avocado Salad Recipe is very to prepare at home during the season of Avocado. The flavors are delicious. It is highly nutritious and beneficial.

Avocado Salad Recipe Ingredients:

• Avocado – 1 cup (1 large)
• Black Beans – ¼ cup
• Garbanzo Beans – ¼ cup
• Capsicum – ¼ cup
• Coriander Leaves – ¼ cup
• Cucumber – ¼ cup (1 medium sized)
• Green Chilies – ¼ cup (1 or 2 chilies)
• Onions – ¼ cup (1 small sized)
• Tomatoes – ¼ cup (1 medium sized)
• Cherry Tomatoes – ¼ cup
• Corns – ¼ cup
• Fresh Yogurt – 4 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise – ½ tbsp.
• Lettuce leaves– 1/4^th of large bunch
• Fresh Mint Leaves – 1 tbsp. (finely chopped)
• Garlic Cloves – ¼ tsp.
• Minced Shallot – 1 tbsp.
• Lime Juice – ½ tsp.
• Cumin Powder – ½ tsp.
• Red Chili Powder – ¼ tsp.
• Black Pepper – ¼ tsp.
• Salt – as per taste
• Olive Oil – ½ tbsp.

Note: You may also use fresh cream instead of yogurt. You can also skip using any vegetable or may add your favorite.

Avocado Salad Recipe Steps:

Pre-Preparation:

• Wash, Rinse and finely chop the cherry tomatoes, coriander leaves, onions, green chilies and capsicum.
• Slice chop the avocado. Scoop its flesh out and remove the seed.
• Now peel off the tomato and cucumber skin and chop them.
• Wash the lettuce with fresh water and steam well for 10 minutes. Soak in the cool water for 2 minutes. Remove the exterior leaves from the head.
• Yogurt Dressing:
  • In a large bowl, whisk the yogurt till it becomes smooth.
  • Now drizzle the olive oil and mix again.
  • Sprinkle the spice powders like red chili powder, cumin powder, and the black pepper powder.
  • Once again, whisk at a medium pace to form a dressing.
  • Keep the bowl aside.

• Lime Vinaigrette Dressing:
  • In a small bowl, combine the minced garlic cloves with the minced shallots.
  • Add lime juice or squeeze the ¼ lemon juice.
  • Drizzle the olive oil.
  • Combine and fold the ingredients. Keep the bowl aside.

Note: De-seed the green chilies. You can make any of the above-mentioned dressing for the salad.

Preparation:

• Take another bowl and combine all the chopped ingredients like onions, tomatoes, and cucumber, capsicum, and green chilies.
• Along with beans, corns, and chopped veggies add the sliced chopped Avocado.
• Transfer the any of the dressing of your choice to this bowl.
• Season the mixture with a pinch of salt.
• Fold the ingredients well so that they attain the flavors.
• Then squeeze lemon juice over it.
• Gently give a toss and again pour some more dressing.
• You add mayonnaise at this point for minor sweetness.
• Sprinkle the coriander leaves.
• Finally, season the salad with salt and black pepper.
• Drizzle the mixture with the Olive oil.
• Combine the ingredients properly.
• Take the salad bowl or plate, spread the lettuce leaves.
• Transfer the mixture to the salad bowl over the lettuce leaf.
• Refrigerate the bowl of salad for 1 hour.
• Take the bowl from the fridge. Season with extra spice powders.

And the amazing Avocado salad is ready to be served.

Note: Do not use both the dressing at the same time. It may harm the taste.

Additional Information:

• Calories: 330 calories
• Total Time: PT15M
• Serves: 3
• Date Published: 2016-09-04

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