Avocado salad with orange vinaigrette is a simple low calorie 10 minutes freshly prepared salad with a sweet and tangy fresh tasting dressing. Perfect for packed lunches!
Folks here's an easy avocado salad with orange vinaigrette lunch idea.
Did you know that avocado is classed as a “super food”?
It contains many important nutrients for body function including potassium to regulate and control blood sugar levels as well as vitamins A and E which help to reduce cholesterol absorption.
You'll get ALL those benfits from this avocado salad.
Plus a really tasty zingy fresh and naturally sweet dressing!
If you’ve been following my salad recipe postings, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been using quite a lot of lettuce recently.
There are 2 reasons for that, 1) it’s currently in season in Britain and 2) it’s cheap and plentiful at my local supermarket.
But, it’s a shame that our weather has not improved much since I posted my first Waldorf salad recipe on my blog.
The salad section is still relatively untouched at my supermarket.
It’s funny that when the sun comes out here those shelves are emptied.
Still I’ll take advantage of that and of the lower prices if other people are not going to!
You know you don’t have to spend a fortune on food to cook healthily. I frequently pick up loads of things in the reduced section that can be put in the freezer and used at a future date.
Saving me money and keeping me healthy at the same time!
Tips For Making This Avocado Salad
- If you can't get little gem lettuce use romaine lettuce instead.
- Add in some chunks of feta cheese if you want to "bulk" this up a little.
- Substitute the freshly squeezed orange juice with a good quality freshly squeezed carton of juice if you can't get oranges.
- If you want a bit more protein add in some chickpeas or chopped chicken.
- You could also serve this avocado orange salad as a side dish too.
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Avocado Salad with Orange Vinaigrette Recipe
If you are making this avocada salad as a packed lunch it's best served chilled. So ideally if you have a fridge at work, keep it in that.
I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Avocado Salad with Orange Vinaigrette Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 little gem lettuce’s chopped
- 1 ripe avocado peeled and chopped
- 8 slices of cucumber quartered
- 10 cherry / baby plum tomatoes halved
- 12 black olives
- 2 spring onions sliced finely
Orange Vinaigrette Ingredients:-
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 clove crushed garlic
Instructions
- Arrange the lettuce onto 2 plates or into 2 sealable containers for packed lunches.
- On top of the lettuce place the chopped avocado, slices of cucumber, halved tomatoes and 6 black olives each.
- Scatter the spring onions over the top.
- Put all of the orange vinaigrette ingredients into a jar with a screw top lid and shake well.
- Pour the vinaigrette mixture over the salad distributing between the 2 plates.
DetoxMama
We practically eat avocados by the crateful in my house. And your vinaigrette sounds amazing. I will absolutely give this a try!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I really hope you enjoy it too! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my site. I’m really enjoying reading your site and look forward to following the updates!
Mike
Loved this salad! It made such a refreshing change from just using some balsamic or low calorie dressing!
Neil
Glad you enjoyed it Mike. Yes just using plain old balsamic or low calorie dressing all the time can be a bit boring.