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Cucumber, Tomato & Avocado Salad

by Tina Basu
This is health month for me and I am doing all healthy stuff, at least cooking and eating healthy! I did a smoothie and a breakfast recipe earlier so I’ll share a great salad recipe today.
 
Salads are great, aren’t they? They fill you up, low on calorie, you can have as much as you want! And hey, all salads are not boring. You can enjoy it as a side or a main. I sometimes like some good salad as munching snack in the evening.
Today we are making wonders with three very simple ingredients – Cucumber, Tomato and Avocado! It’s summers and these ingredients are perfect for the season! Crunchy Cucumber, Fresh Tomato and Buttery Avocado! Very easy and totally yum! Let’s get to know our Cucumber, Tomato & Avocado Salada little better!



HEALTH BENEFIT
 
Cucumber, however boring it may sound, is a gift
 
It keeps you hydratedand flushes out your toxins.
 
It almost doesn’t have any calories and provides loads of vitaminsand skin friendly minerals like magnesium, potassium.
 
Avocados on the other hand are a power house of dietary fiber, vitamin K, copper, folate, vitamin B6, potassium, vitamin E, and vitamin C
 
It also provides Alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid) and oleic acid 

Tomatoes, I can’t tell you how good they are specially for your skin!
 
We won’t use any mayo or fatty dressing for the salad!


 
CUCUMBER TOMATO & AVOCADO SALAD Print Friendly and PDF

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Recipe Type: Salad main/side
Serves: 2 persons as a side or 1 person as a main
INGREDIENTS
  • Avocado – 1 pitted and diced
  • Cucumber -1 diced
  • Tomato – 1 diced (you can use cherry tomato in halves)
  • Red Onion – ½ finely chopped
  • Lime juice – juice of ½ a lime
  • Cilantro or Coriander Leaves – 1 teaspoon finely chopped
  • Olive Oil – 1 tablespoon for dressing
  • Red Wine Vinegar – 1 teaspoon
  • Tabasco / capsico sauce – 1 teaspoon
  • Salt & Pepper – to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
  • Combine Avocado, cucumber, tomato, onion in a bowl.
  • Whisk together olive oil, lime juice, tabasco sauce, red wine vinegar and seasoning in another bowl and drizzle over the avocado salad
  • Sprinkle chopped coriander or cilantro leaves and serve fresh
  
TIPS
You can totally skip the tabasco part, if you don’t like the heat in salads
If you want to have it as a main, add some diced tofu and up the protein quotient of the salad.
 
Enjoy a good healthy snack.
 
 
Until next time, Cheers!

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45 comments

Roshan Radhakrishnan April 4, 2016 - 5:09 am

I love how its so easy to make and yet you know it will be filling and tasty at the same time.

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betty April 4, 2016 - 5:17 am

This looks delicious! I do love salads; they can be so refreshing when the weather is hot in summer months. Sadly, in my 30s cucumbers wrecked havoc on my body with bad heartburn so I had to stop eating them 🙁 otherwise I would be making this recipe in a heartbeat

betty

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 5:38 am

Yeah perfect for summers

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 5:40 am

Ohh so sad… may be without the cucumber you can try!

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Unknown April 4, 2016 - 7:15 am

Looks like a yummy salad! And so refreshing to look at!

Cheers!
Modern Gypsy

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 8:01 am

thank you

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Karan Shah April 4, 2016 - 8:45 am

I am salad love and this adds options and variety to my list.

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Dixita mour April 4, 2016 - 8:55 am

Am making it now 🙂

Loved the recepie and its benefits .

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Dixita mour April 4, 2016 - 8:55 am

Am making it now 🙂

Loved the recepie and its benefits .

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Kala Ravi April 4, 2016 - 9:16 am

Super yummy and easy to make! Tell me what I can replace the avocados with?
Cheers 🙂
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Novemberschild April 4, 2016 - 10:19 am

This easy cucumber salad is fast and fresh with a bit of a kick. The avacodos adds the perfect twist!

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 12:33 pm

Do try it and let me know

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Ankita Shukla April 4, 2016 - 12:33 pm

Your post is a godsend for me. I was hungry and was thinking about what to eat. My options were: Maggi, lays chips, and — I dare you not to laugh — a carrot. Now I know what to eat, thanks to you!

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 12:34 pm

go ahead and enjoy!

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 12:34 pm

super

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 12:35 pm

add whatever you want – tofu, feta cheese

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 12:36 pm

Yay! hope you enjoy it

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 12:38 pm

LOL… the carrot is actually a better option than maggi and lays!! but yes the salad would be tasty and filling too!

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Archana April 4, 2016 - 12:39 pm

This sounds absolutely yummy! Thanks for sharing the recipe!

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Rajlakshmi April 4, 2016 - 1:23 pm

yummy salad and healthy too. I love avocado 😀

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 2:07 pm

Thank you Rajlakshmi

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Tina Basu April 4, 2016 - 2:07 pm

You are welcome Archana

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Shalini April 4, 2016 - 2:27 pm

That's so easy to make! I will definitely try. Thanks for sharing, Tina!

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The Solitary Writer April 4, 2016 - 6:56 pm

Good to know that Twinkling Tina also cooks. Lovely!

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Sheethal Susan Jacob April 4, 2016 - 8:49 pm

Looks healthy!

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Choose to Cook April 4, 2016 - 10:14 pm

I love cucumber! And tomatoes. And avocado!
And your photography looks great! I also shoot on my phone, and I hope that they turn out even half as good as yours 🙂

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Scarlett Braden April 5, 2016 - 3:25 am

This sounds delicious and your photos are great. I think I'll pick up the ingredients tomorrow for this salad.
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Rashi Mital September 5, 2017 - 3:26 pm

Wow. my MIL loves avocado. probably, she’ll be happy if I make this for her. 🙂

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Srishti RajeevMenda September 3, 2018 - 11:01 pm

A sure winner salad. Avocado will complete the winning shot. Will try out this weekend.

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Noor Anand Chawla July 11, 2019 - 9:42 am

This looks like such a healthy and tasty salad. I would love to try this at home.

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Amrita Basu (Misra) July 12, 2019 - 9:18 pm

Cucumber tomatoes and avacado.sounds like a delicious tasty fresh summer salad .I would try making this tonight

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Gurjeet Chhabra July 13, 2019 - 11:07 am

It look so tempting and healthy. I will try out this weekend

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Snehalata Jain July 13, 2019 - 11:53 am

That Salad looks delicious.Love the pics.Will surely make myself at home soon.Thanks for sharing.

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Neha Jain July 13, 2019 - 11:56 am

Wow that’s awesome, this looks really yummy and healthy. I am surely going to try this one

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Ruchi Verma July 13, 2019 - 7:05 pm

This looks good, yummy, healthy and above all quick recipe of Salad..Thanks, I will sure try this

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Kim Paradise - MumFLIX July 13, 2019 - 7:08 pm

Oh wow! This salad looks so healthy and delicious. I’m surely gonna try it as it’s quite easy to make too 😊
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Snehal July 13, 2019 - 7:14 pm

Supper healthy and tasty recipe! I’ll be trying this salad soon! 😋

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Sindhu Vinod Narayan July 13, 2019 - 10:58 pm

I love salads. Especially in lchf Avocados are great fillers. Thank you for the recipe

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Neha Sharma July 13, 2019 - 11:17 pm

I love salads that are yum to eat apart from being healthy. Cucumber tomato and avocado combination sounds delicious, I will try this.

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Milan July 13, 2019 - 11:58 pm

Never tried avocado, find it too mushy, though heard its quite beneficial . Would try this one , may be in this form its palatable.

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Pragnya Mishra July 14, 2019 - 1:25 am

An easy and healthy food recipe is always appreciated. This would be my next day snack, pakka thing.

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Snigdha July 14, 2019 - 1:30 am

Wow, the salad looks healthy, yummy and full on tummy .. Will try it for sure..

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MeenalSonal July 14, 2019 - 7:49 am

This salad is surely a good nutritional start for a meal, never tried avocado in salad, shall try it.

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Varsh July 14, 2019 - 10:17 am

This is such a quick, colourful and power-packed salad. I liked the recipe but would add just a hint of honey or brown sugar to balance the vinegar and lime juice.

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Amy July 14, 2019 - 11:26 am

This salad is healthy as well as easy to prepare and have. My mom would love having this

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