Cucumber-Avocado Salad Recipe (2024)

What does alternating strips mean?

I added a handful of mint, which I would do again. Delicious and perfect for a hot summer night!

Alternating stripes means you take your peeler, start at the head or the foot of the cucumber, peel from top to bottom in one straight line, then go back to the top, and instead of peeling a new peel right next to the old one you move a bit away, and again peel from top to bottom in one straight line Repeat until you've gone all around the cucumber once. Your final product will have alternating peeled and unpeeled stripes, a bit like a cucumber version of seersucker, but with thicker stripes.

A trick for cubing avocado. Cut in half, remove pit. With the rind still in place, slice the fruit in each half the long way into 6 strips (not cutting the rind), then cross-wise 5 times or so. Use a tablespoon to carve the fruit from the rind. Presto! Cubed avocado with much less mess.

What on earth is it about completely changing a perfectly good recipe?I thought this was a great combo and will make tonight,mid winter here in NZ and serve with a couple of decent steaks as we are trying to clear the freezers post apocalypse/prior to moving!We will enjoy.As for those clever folk who change everything..a column of your own would be cool!

Lovely, easy change for a side dish. I used one large avocado instead of two, with just shy of a pound of cucumbers. Seeded the cukes, which kept the salad crunchy. Added fresh dill. Served three.

Do you rinse the salted cucumbers before using them? If not it’s an awful lot of salt, isn’t it?

I added chopped romaine and tomatoes. It was deliciously easy.

My mother used to draw the times of the fork down the cucumber, which left alternating ridges of rind and exposed cucumber flesh. That would work here, I think.

I make a version of this in the summer, but add fresh cilantro and garlic rather than scallions.

I added home-grown cherry tomatoes and chopped parsley, basil and chives. I did not mash up the avocado, preferring it to stay cubed and distinct from the cukes and toms. Delicious! Pretty!

It’s easy to cube a halved avocado IN the skin, then carefully scoop out.

Adding za’atar to the finished salad really gave it an extra boost of flavor.

We dry roasted some sunflower seeds, which added some crunch.

Make long stripes when you peel the cucumber, leaving stripes of peel on in between.

Made this with 1 large English cucumber and 2 small avocados. Used rice wine vinegar instead of lemon, and used gochugaru for the chili flakes. Great recipe- simple, versatile and delicious! Paired well with our pork potstickers.

Made this with rice vinegar, sesame oil, and gochugaru, with a splash of lime juice - delicious!

This was delicious! It got better as it hung out in the fridge for a few days.

I must’ve done something wrong, although I followed the recipe. I found it to be bland and uninteresting.

Add cubed tomatoes, dill, or parsley.

Where does the ice come in?

I added grilled shrimps put it on a bed of torn lettuce leaves & dressed it with a bit of soy sauce and sesame oil. Finished with a sprinkle of sesame seeds. Summer supper!

Added sweet cherry tomatoes halved and fresh corn kernels; skipped the green onions. Plated on large Bibb lettuce leaves.

We let the cukes sit with the salt in a colander for over an hour. May have made them a bit dryer and crunchier? This was an enormous hit, even with my veggie avoidant son. Even he raves about it! Quick and easy, it tastes so fresh and has become a summer staple.

Added a couple of Tablespoons to the cucumbers a few minutes before adding them. Added some fresh tomatoes from the garden since they were ripe. Substituted shallots finely chopped for scallions since that’s what was on hand. Delicious!

Great summer salad. Added cherry tomatoes like others suggested because we had them. Plus basil. Didn't need to season it much beyond that.

This was delicious as is. Halved it with a very ripe avocado. One Persian cuke, one small garden cuke. Two scallions. Didn’t add more salt and pepper at end, but shook on a healthy amount of Aleppo pepper. When served over a green salad, can make three portions

This is crazy good on a hot, humid New England summer night! I added sugar snap peas from the garden, for some crunch and to use them up, and also a heavy sprinkle of furikake (wasabi variety). This will be in regular rotation around here.

I did this with lemon, next time I'll try lime. There were 6 of us and there was nothing left. A big hit and a great way to use the overwhelming number of cucumbers that are coming in the garden right now.

Garlic powder sprinkled over this salad would be a nice addition.