These avocado recipes use the fruit as a substantial salad ingredient, sandwich filling, sauce or wrapped appetizer. They include cold vegetable salads, seafood pairings, toast, melts, egg rolls and enchiladas. Avocado oil alone or an optional garnish does not make a recipe part of this selection.
- Avocado Recipes for Cold Salads
- Avocado with Shrimp and Salmon
- Toast, Melts and Grilled Cheese
- Egg Rolls and Enchiladas
Choose according to how the avocado is used. Cold salads add diced or sliced flesh near serving, while the toast mashes it into a spread. The enchiladas blend avocado into a sauce, and the egg rolls enclose it in wrappers. Ripe avocado and the listed preparation matter more here than applying one cooking method to every dish.
Avocado Recipes for Cold Salads
These salads give avocado a clear place in the mixture, with corn, chickpeas, mozzarella or cooked chicken providing different companions.
1. Avocado Corn Salad with Tomatoes, Onion and Garlic
Avocado slices join corn, tomatoes and thin red onion under a garlic-seasoned prepared dressing. Add the avocado close to serving and use broad, gentle turns to preserve the pieces.
2. Chickpea Feta Avocado Salad
Chickpeas, feta, parsley and mint take a lemon-garlic dressing before diced avocado folds in. This makes four side portions, with the avocado prepared just before serving.
3. Italian Avocado Cucumber Tomato Salad with Mozzarella
Cucumber, tomatoes and mozzarella pearls share a lemon-herb salad with measured avocado flesh. Drain loose tomato liquid and cheese before the gentle final toss.
4. Avocado Chicken Salad with Fresh Herbs and Lime
Chilled cooked chicken combines with a lime-mayonnaise dressing before diced avocado is folded through. Optional lettuce is separate, making this a cold chicken-salad filling rather than a cooked sandwich.
Avocado with Shrimp and Salmon
Avocado joins cooked shrimp or tops grilled salmon. Keep the cold dressings and salsa separate until assembly.
5. Shrimp and Avocado Salad with Lime and Crisp Vegetables
Cooked seasoned shrimp tops romaine with beans, corn and avocado under a cilantro-yogurt dressing. Tortilla chips go on just before eating, keeping them separate from waiting salad portions.
6. Avocado Shrimp Ceviche with Cooked Shrimp and Lime
Shrimp is poached and chilled before a lime-and-vegetable marinade, then avocado joins near serving. This ceviche-style salad uses cooked shrimp rather than relying on citrus to cook raw seafood.
7. Grilled Salmon with Avocado Salsa and Fresh Lime
A cold avocado, tomato and corn salsa tops separately grilled salmon. Prepare the salsa with clean tools and keep it separate while the fish cooks, then share it over the portions.
Toast, Melts and Grilled Cheese
Mashed avocado spreads on toast or mixes with chicken, while sliced avocado joins wilted kale in grilled cheese.
8. Creamy Garlic Tomato Avocado Toast on Crisp Baguette
Mashed avocado, mayonnaise and a small garlic clove make a spread for toasted baguette slices. Drained tomatoes top the toasts immediately before serving to retain the bread’s texture.
9. Chicken Avocado Melt Sandwich
Cooked shredded chicken and mashed avocado fill two cheese sandwiches toasted in a pan. The center needs to warm through while the bread browns, with lower heat and brief covering as directed.
10. Kale Pesto Avocado Grilled Cheese with Crisp Golden Bread
Wilted kale, pesto, mozzarella and sliced avocado fill four grilled cheese sandwiches. Cook excess moisture out of the kale before assembling, then toast gently until the cheese melts.
Egg Rolls and Enchiladas
These recipes use avocado inside a fried wrapper or blended into a warm sauce, providing different options from the cold salads.
11. Avocado Egg Rolls with Tomato, Red Onion and Fresh Lime
Diced avocado, drained tomato, onion and lime fill full-size egg roll wrappers. The rolls fry in uncrowded loads, with seams sealed and the finished filling hot before resting briefly.
12. Chicken Enchiladas with Avocado Cream Sauce and Cheese
Avocado blends with cilantro, lime and part of a broth-based cream sauce. The sauce covers rolled chicken-and-poblano enchiladas, making this a warm sauce use rather than a sliced topping.
Before You Choose Your Recipe
Prepare delicate avocado close to assembly where directed and drain watery vegetables before combining. Seafood is cooked as specified before its salad or salsa pairing; lime juice is not used instead of cooking the shrimp. For the sandwiches and egg rolls, allow time for the separate hot cooking stage as well as preparing the avocado filling.
