Cucumber Avocado Salad with Grapefruit

Name: Cucumber Avocado Salad with Grapefruit
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 (approximately 1 pound) Ruby grapefruit, (cut into supremes (see below instructions)); ½ pound Persian cucumbers (sometimes called "small" or "mini"), (thinly sliced (see below instructions)); ½ pound avocado (about 1 medium-large avocado), (thinly sliced (see below instructions)); ¼ cup pickled red onion; 3 tablespoons roasted, salted pistachios; 1 tablespoon honey; several Romaine lettuce leaves for the plate, (washed and dried); ¼ cup grapefruit juice ((see below instructions)); 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar; 1 teaspoon honey; ¼ teaspoon salt; freshly ground black pepper; 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

June 3, 2021 By valentina 34 Comments

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Cucumber Avocado Salad with Grapefruit is picturesque, fresh and delicious. It’s a fantastic side salad with almost anything, and it makes for a lovely light and healthy lunch.

Cucumbers and avocados are an excellent (somewhat) classic ingredient match, and so are avocados and grapefruit. And the three of them together are amazing!

Add to that honey coated, roasted pistachios and pickled red onions, and you’ve got a salad that you’ll want to make again and again.

Avocado cucumber salad is a delightful side dish that will brighten any plate. It also can stand on it’s own as a vegan main course.

Preparing the Grapefruit

Citrus is really nice in salads when it’s cut into supremes, which is when the segments are cut out without the membranes into pretty pieces.

* Click here for a guide to cutting citrus supremes.*

And the bonus is that not only do you have pieces of the fruit, but you can use all of the juice from the scraps to make grapefruit salad dressing.

Once you remove the segments (supremes), you simply squeeze the remaining parts to get all of the juice out. (See recipe below.)

Preparing Cucumber for a Cucumber Salad Recipe

The way produce is sliced, diced and chopped can really change the vibe of a salad.

I love the soft texture from very thin cucumber slices — cucumber ribbons, if you will.

Just use a vegetable peeler to make the cucumber ribbons, and you’ll have the most beautiful Cucumber Avocado Salad ever!

Recipe Tips and Substitutions

While I love the pasta-like cucumber slices and very thin avocado slices, feel free to slice the ingredients any way you like!
I intentionally make more dressing than is needed — I love having another serving or two to use throughout the week on other salads I might make. And this way, you can use the whole grapefruit.
The pickled red onions add a great tangy crunch. They can be made days ahead of time, and it’s a good idea to always have them at the ready. (If you love them, of course!) If you want to save time however, raw thinly sliced red onions or shallots will also work well.
The recipe calls for red wine vinegar in the dressing. You can also use champagne vinegar or white balsamic.
Here’s a photographic guide for How To Cut An Avocado and How to Cut Citrus Supremes.

I hope you love this Cucumber Avocado Salad with Grapefruit as much as I do!

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