Little appetizers are a must for any summer get together. I especially love when foods have a lot of color; feels so fun and festive! Here are three variations on making simple avocado salads for your next dinner party. Be sure to serve this quickly as the avocado is best when fresh.
Tuna Avocado Salad: mix together cooked (canned) tuna with sweet pickles, lime juice and a little chopped cilantro. Sprinkle with just a pinch of salt and pepper before serving.
Watermelon Avocado Salad: mix together cubed watermelon, feta or other crumbly cheese, and a little chopped cilantro. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt before serving. For a sweeter version you could use mint instead of cilantro.
Black Bean Salsa Avocado Salad: mix together cooked black beans, chopped tomato, chopped onion, lime juice and a little chopped cilantro. Sprinkle with a little garlic salt just before serving.
You can mix up any kind of filling you prefer. Have fun dressing up your avocados this season! xo. Emma
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Love this post. I always buy avocados and run out of chips so sometimes they just sit there. This is a great way to make sure I eat them. Delicious!
I just bought some avocados! Now I know what to do with them!
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I love advocado! These look so cute and delicious too!
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My husband is going to love you! Avocado is his favorite thing ever. I’m going to have to try all of these. Thanks gals.
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My Dr. Prescribed 1 avacto a day, and I so you can see my need for variety! I am also avoiding wheat, corn and sugar. So the more fruits and veggies or beans I can get creative with is a huge bonus! Can’t wait to try this. Not sure if I’m lucky or not… My boyfriend loves avactos too. It will be fun to try something like this together. However my ex boyfriend hated them. That ment more for me and if only one was ripe it wasn’t going anywhere but into my belly!
mmm looks so good!
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Love avocados! I’m certainly spoiled during avocado season, living in California… definitely have to try these — the watermelon one is intriguing!!
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I love these ideas! Avocados are a part of my daily diet so having some ways to change them up and add a little spice is wonderful!
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Mmm yum! I’m a HUGE avocado fan.
Thanks for sharing.
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It look SO good <3 YUM!
this looks so wonderful. i love avocados.
I could probably eat that black bean salsa avocado salad everyday. It looks amazing!
I love the idea of this watermelon salad. I think maybe a cold rice salad would also be great in an avocado. Avocado just has just a way of making everything taste fresher. Thanks for the recipes!
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yum!!! we love avocado over here! we eat about it every other day even if it’s on it’s own! 🙂
i love a colorful plate as well 🙂
Mmmmmm, looks excellent! Beautiful, I love avocados… I’ve been eating them with everything I make lately. I’ll have to give these a try!
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Yum, I love avocado! So happy to have found your adorable blog, following on Bloglovin’ now! x
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I’m always looking for new ways to eat avocado. These sound wonderful.
Those look delightfully delicious!! What a great idea!
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This looks so yummy!!!!
Ooh, I always love a new way to eat avocados, and these look both pretty and tasty! I want to have folks over for a picnic just so I can make these!
If you need to prepare these ahead of time, I bet they would keep better if you painted the cut side with lemon juice, closely covered each with plastic wrap, and refrigerated. I always do this when I need to store an extra half avocado and it keeps the flesh green and fresh. 🙂
I’m bombarded by the “California Avacados” commercial every ten minutes, and they’re constantly on sale due to so many growers here in Long Beach, so I’m gonna give in and get some because this is a creative way I’ve never tried!
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Avocado is a new favourite around my house. Even on toast! Thanks for the ideas, I love the idea of mixing it with tuna!
Emilie
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I just adore avocados! Yum!
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I LOOOOOVE avocado! 😀 I make a super delicious and refreshing salad mixing: avocado, pineapple {and its juice} and palmitos ♥
Thank you for sharing your recipes 🙂
I’m making this for lunch tomorrow!
I absolutely ADORE avocados! This is perfection. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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look so delicious. avocado is my favorite food. Gonna try this recipes out.
I’m kind of obsessed with avocados lately. Thanks for the new ways to eat them!!
These look delicious! Using the avo as a bowl is a neat idea!
I am obsessed with avocados this summer, I eat them almost every day. These sound tasty, particularly the black ban one. Like the idea of presenting the salsa in the center, pretty.
Those are SO CUUUTE and surely tasty 🙂
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Looks so yummy, i love avocado
Oh hello avocado! How fabulous!
YUMYUM wish people would eat this with me around here! No one I know likes avocados .. and i LOVE them. looks delicious!
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I love avocados, this loos good! Got to try!
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Yummy!!! 😉
It’s amazingly how your food recipes are always so yummy and photos are always eye-catching. Irresistible! Those fillings look really fresh, healthy and yummy!
THanks for sharing!
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YUM!! love avacado 🙂
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This. Looks. AWESOME! Can’t wait to try it out – thanks for sharing the recipe! 🙂
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I really am not a fan of how avocado tastes, but these sure look good!
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OH WHAT!!!??? I have to do this. I’ve never thought of it before. How have I never seen or thought of this before? You’ve changed my life.
This looks so insanely delicious! I usually just eat them plain with sea salt sprinkled on top but I may need to try this next!
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So delicious and healthy!
This is so perfect! I just bought myself some avocados. The only thing now is how to cut it perfectly…
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Looks delicious! I love when food has lots of colours!
These look AMAZING! I would make the watermelon one right now if I had the ingredients on hand.
Who knew healthy good look so good and in 3 ways …. even better 🙂
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Great ideas! Lovely for the BBQ this weekend 😉
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such a good idea! My goodness this looks amazing! x
God I love avocado so much!
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Oh I will definitely try the one with watermelon and feta, it sounds (and looks!) delicious! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Looks delicious, I think I will have to try this out!
Mmmm this looks amazing! Well, I know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow 😀
These look delicious! I love avocado and need to try all of these.
Love avocados and the recipes look good but I will pretend I never read your suggestion of putting cilantro in all of them. Cilantro is evil…….it makes me gag just thinking about it. But again, the rest of the recipes look very good so I will try them withouth the evil weed.
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Oooo this looks SO good! I’ve been obsessed with all the colors of healthy food lately!
Oh wow! What an incredible idea. I love avocado, and this is a fantastic way to eat them. Thanks!
This looks delicious! I love avocados-yummy
I’ve recently just started to like avocado and these will be some great ways to try it with different things, thanks for sharing 🙂
LOVE this idea!
Im totally going to try this 🙂
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looks delicious!!! midn you ive never eaten avocado..
I don’t know how many times I’ve just grabbed a spoon and dug into an avocado like there was no tomorrow, but I was SHOCKED and DUMBFOUNDED that you used an avocado as a bowl. It makes perfect sense! Craziness.
This is such a good idea! I LOVE avocadoes! 🙂
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Oh yum! The black bean salsa one sounds really really yummy.
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That looks soooooo good!
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good idea!
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So light and summery. Looks yummy.
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Yummm love this idea.
I love avocados! Always eating them when they are in season! I love how many things you can do with them! SOOO GOOOOD!
YUM. We aren’t the biggest avocado eaters… but I see this happening ASAP. 🙂
I really enjoy the blog.
That is a creative way to serve salad i like it
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Great idea – I love avocados! To keep them fresh and green for a little longer, I always drip some lemon juice over the avocados. (:
love this post..
tried this at home and it’s sooo great. I didn’t even share it with my friends. Lol..
But it’s soo great.. 🙂
love these ideas !
Ooh these look delicious! Definitely going to have to try making these
Charlotte
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Oh heavens these look great! I’ll try the tuna and black bean..
I’ve been vegetarian for 4.5 years and also losing weight so I find I get in a rut w my food so it’s great to hv something new to try!
Thanks girls 🙂
xo,
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I can’t get enough of avocados this summer! Thanks for the recipes!