I love summer season, or BBQ season more appropriately named! Often in the hottest months of the year, we’re just not hungry for a heavy dinner, and that’s when our favorite salads move into rotation on our dinner menu. A great salad paired with grilled chicken, a skewer of shrimp or juicy steak is the perfect hot-weather meal.
This recipe is super-easy and is now my husband’s favorite salad. We’ve made it several times this summer as we have most of the items on hand either from our own garden or the farmer’s market. Just ensure you buy your avocados a little hard, as soft ripe avocado is better as a spread or guacamole, and a less ripe avocado is better for cubing in a salad. Yum!
Cucumber Tomato Avocado Salad
Ingredients
- 1 - 10oz pkg grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 long English cucumber, sliced
- ½ red onion, sliced
- 2 avocados, diced into bite sized pieces
- 2 Tbsp EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice (even better if you have fresh lemons, juice from about ½ a lemon in that case)
- ¼ cup fresh chopped cilantro
- Season with salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place all chopped, sliced and diced veggies into a large salad bowl.
- Drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice and toss to coat.
- Plate and top with salt/pepper.
- Serve with grilled chicken, steak, shrimp skewers but is also amazing on its own!
Love cucumber and tomato salad. The addition of avocado would be very yummy.
This looks so refreshing and tasty! Thanks for the salad inspiration!
Looks like a great healthy salad. I make a similar salad with avocado. It’s so easy to wipe up and tasty too!
Interesting combination. This is a must try recipe for me.
OMG – will have to try this!
I love tomato cucumber salad! Looks delicious
This looks really, really good. PErfect summer lunch.
Not a big fan of avocado but this does sound very good, I think I would enjoy it very much!!
Made this tonight! So good! Thanks!
What a simple wonderful recipe. Thank you.
What a nice combo,thanks for sharing will try this soon
This looks like a great summer salad, thanks for the idea
This easy recipe is perfect for a hot summer day.
I have found this recipe a little while back and I made this.It was delightfully refreshing and tasty.I enjoyed it very much!!
This is by far one of my favorite summer salads – so simple yet it’s perfect
I have a recipe for a tomato cucumber salad that I just love. I’m not a fan of avocado; I might try this if I was at someone’s house and they prepared this salad. I wouldn’t make it myself.
I would definitely love this. Sounds delicious!
I’ll have to give this one a try.
Thinking I should try Avocado, this might be a good way to try it out. Thanks!
OMG! This looks so delicious!!!
looks and sounds interesting , i will have to try it out thanks for sharing the recipe
would love to try this, always looking for new avocado recipes!