2-Minute Creamy Avocado Dressing and Quick Garden Salad

Spring represents bloom and lushness. While most parts of the country are experiencing a cool spring weather, the situation in Texas is quite a bit different. The notorious Texan heat makes the season little hotter than other parts of the country. We even experience days in higher 80s these days. That makes me crave more for salads. And, I have a recipe. Here is a minty-garlicky and creamy avocado dressing that goes really well with any salad, burgers, sandwiches and Buddha bowls, and even with my quick garden salad. And you can make this creamy avocado dressing under two minutes. How cool is that?

Avocado is a king of nutritious fruits, yes not a vegetable, which has a typical buttery taste. The fruit with its beautiful green hue is quite eye-catchy to look at. Although the taste is quite bland and avocady..LOL, it can be well combined with many dishes and used in recipes. Apart from the chunky guacamole and Mexican avo salads, I use this beautiful fruit in my smoothies, for vegan chocolate mousse(yes Mousse! did you get a chance to see the recipe), on my toasts and in dressing. I call avocado a healthy bomb as it is loaded with good fats and protein. Yes, 21g of fat per a cup of serving and 2.9g of protein which is quite praiseworthy considering it as a raw plant protein source.

Read more about avocado and its nutrition facts here.

If you have read my other posts, then you must have read how important it is to include more veggies in your diet. Some of the best ways to enjoy more veggies is by replacing a traditional crust with veggies, bread in burgers with lettuce and fried snack with vegetable chips and similar.. (I used cucumber cups here) Include vegetables and fruits in smoothies.(here) Make vegetable and fruit dressings and eat some extra salads. Yes, this recipe has it!

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My Creamy Avocado Dressing and Quick Garden Salad:

This recipe is super delicious and super quick. I use those hash type avocados for this recipe. To add more creaminess, there is Greek Yogurt. If you are going vegan like me, then use those Greek Style plain soy yogurt. I use the store bought ones, because I still haven’t made my homemade vegan yogurt yet. To add some pungency and heat, I add a green Thai pepper to this recipe.

Then comes my favorite ingredient: mint leaves, which not just adds color, but it adds some freshness too. Lastly, some garlic and lemon or lime juice. Garlic uplifts the flavor and adds a typical pungent taste too. You can skip it if the raw garlic taste bothers you. Lime juice is essential to combine those entire flavor profiles and to add that tangy taste to this dressing. I also add a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil too. In my opinion, olive oil changes a regular salad dressing to a wow salad dressing. Don’t add too much olive oil to this dressing, as the dressing already has lots of good fat.

My quick garden green salad features fresh black berries, leafy and iceberg lettuce(you can use mixed greens too), some grape tomatoes and blanched green beans. I added some walnuts for that crunch in every bite. And of course, the creamy avocado dressing completes the recipe. Serve it with sour-dough bread or semolina bread.

Health Benefits:

Loaded in good fats, low in calorie and carb, and full of flavors.

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