Avocado, cucumber salad
I hate to admit it but I can lose a lot of time reading food blogs and drooling at food porn on Tastespotting. I can easily rationalize it as time well spent keeping up with my fellow food bloggers. I get my best ideas from food blogs and the more I read, the more creative I get.
This salad is a riff on Kalyn’s shrimp and avocado salad. I’ve been hooked lately on these little persian cucumbers. They’re about 4 inches long and they’re seedless. Their flavor is very intensely cucumber and they’re dense and crisp…everything you want in a cucumber. I added them to the shrimp, green onions, and avocado chunks.
These baby mustard, beet, kale, and mizuna greens make a soft and tasty bed for the avocado, cucumber, shrimp mix.
For the dressing I threw a large handful of cilantro into the cuisinart, added an avocado, and a big splash of lime juice, and 1/2 teaspoon of chilpotle. I whirled that around and tasted it. Then I added some olive oil to smooth out the flavors.
Plated and garnished with pistachios and coconut shavings it was much prettier than I thought it would be. As I’m writing this up I’m thinking it sounds like a frankenstein salad. But it all worked well together. The cucumber’s crispness was a nice contrast to the shrimp. The slightly spicy baby greens were the perfect compliment to the cool smoothness of the avocado and the dressing was delicious. Almost like a guacamole, but not really.
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I enjoy the variety of greens that you selected, and I can only imagine what a guacamole-style salad dressing would taste like!
Sounds just delicious! I love it when people improvise on my improvising! Isn’t that how real people cook? I would love this salad. (BTW, I’m also hooked on those little cucumbers, which I get at Costco these days.)
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Oh my! This looks fantastic. I love the dressing, can’t wait to give it a whirl.
Tastespotting is pure evil, I can waste oceans of time on there, or clicking through.
That dressing sounds great!
i don’t think it sounds like a franken-salad at all, i think it sounds like something i wish i had for lunch right now instead of a slice of pizza.
The ingredients sound tasty!