Guacamole Salad (Chunky Avocado and Tomato Salad)

With its bright, fresh flavors and its creamy texture, this vibrant guacamole salad is a guaranteed hit for your cookouts, potlucks, Taco Tuesdays, or Cinco de Mayo parties. Each bite tastes like summer thanks to the chunky avocados, the sweet cherry tomatoes, sharp red onion, and the incredible seasoned lime dressing. Serve with chips, in taco bowls, or even on its own.

🥑 What Makes This Recipe So Good

• If you want a dish that tastes like summer, you are absolutely in the right place! This chunky guacamole salad is bright and fresh and vibrant, with juicy ingredients and an incredible seasoned citrus dressing. This salad plus a bowl of tortilla chips and a pitcher of cucumber margaritas? Go ahead and put your phone on Do Not Disturb for the afternoon. I won’t tell.
• There’s absolutely zero cooking with this dish, so how quickly you can make it really just depends on how long it takes you to dice a couple of avocados and halve a few cherry tomatoes.
• Avocados aren’t always the most budget-friendly ingredients. That’s ok, though! With this guacamole salad, you can adjust the ratios of ingredients however you need to given your budget or your preferences. You’d rather have more tomatoes and red onions, with fewer avocado chunks? No problem! You’re in control.
• So, obviously you can eat guacamole salad with tortilla chips, almost like a deconstructed guac. It’s more versatile than that, though! You could also enjoy a scoop on top of grilled chicken or canned tuna nachos, alongside an Instant Pot burrito bowl, in an avocado omelette, or even in a baked potato.

👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips

• What’s maybe the most annoying thing about avocados? That’s right – oxidation. Once you cut into the flesh of an avocado, it’s exposed to oxygen. That exposure causes the avocado to turn brown. You can’t avoid it… but you can delay it! The antioxidants in the lime juice that we use in the salad dressing helps delay oxidation by as much as a day in some cases (and with proper storage). Still, you want to serve the salad pretty much immediately after you prepare it to guarantee the best, freshest, tastiest, and prettiest results.
• When I mix my guacamole salad, I actually skip the utensils and just use my hands! Avocado is pretty soft and mashes fairly easily. If you’re a little too zealous with a wooden spoon or silicone spatula, you can end up crushing the avocado too much. Remember, we’re going for a chunky salad here, not a rough guacamole.

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