The Best Ways To Use Avocado In Recipes
If you are anything like us you are always looking for new and unique ways to use avocado in recipes. We’ve rounded up some of the most innovative, delicious recipes from our California Creators that use avocado in really unique ways.
Avocado on toast recipes.
Avocado on toast isn’t anything new, but the recipes that follow are new to us takes on avocado toast that we can’t get enough of. We even threw in a few non-conventional avocado on toast recipes like bruschetta and grilled cheese.
Avocado Toast
This delicious Avocado Toast recipe from our friend Teri Turner of nocrumbsleft is simple, tasty, and loaded with fresh flavor – just like all of her food!
When it comes to using avocado in recipes, Avo Toast is always a winning choice.
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Kid Approved Fruity Avocado Toast
Brighten up your mornings with colorful slices of Kid Approved Fruity Avocado Toast from This Mess is Ours! The simple avocado and lime mash is perfect for even the pickiest of palettes. Plus, fruit like juicy berries and grapes taste even better when paired with avocado, it’s just a fact.
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Smoked Gouda Grilled Cheese Bites
These toasty appetizers from Husbands that Cook are almost too cute to eat. Cut into small squares and filled with melty goodness, they’ll disappear quickly at your next party… even if you’re the only one attending.
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Smashed Pea Bruschetta
This bruschetta recipe from Salt & Wind is a spring take on bruschetta where garlicky bread is topped with smashed minty peas, avo, and pickled radishes.
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Avocado in recipes for salad.
Avocado is always a welcome addition in salads. It adds creamy, richness to every bite without much effort at all.
Avocado Salad with Sweet Corn
This salad is equal parts sweet and savory and can be made with either raw or roasted sweet corn depending on your preference and how much time you have to pull it all together.
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Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad with Candied Pecans
This spinach salad from Britney Breaks Bread is your new favorite salad that doesn’t taste like a salad. It’s full of fresh fruit, tossed in a little lemon and olive oil, and garnish with candied pecans and gorgonzola cheese for a nice sweet and savory twist!
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Tomato, Cucumber, Watermelon and Avocado Salad
The lime juice, herbs, and chile of the chimichurri in this salad from This Mess is Ours melds perfectly with the buttery notes of the avocado, the sweetness of the melon, and the tang of the tomato for a beautiful bite of bliss.
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Avocuterie Board
The Delicious Life does it again with this avocado based charcuterie board that will have you carving California avocados like a pro!
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Potato Salad Recipe with Green Goddess Dressing
This California avocado-laced Green Goddess potato salad from This Mess is Ours is served warm so that the flavors of the herbs and the dressing literally burst to life when they hit your palette!
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Taco Platter with Avocado Crema
Who doesn’t love an incredible taco? This Taco Platter from No Crumbs Left is all dressed up with Teri’s indulgent Avocado Crema. We just cannot stop eating this on repeat!
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Cilantro Pepita Chicken Salad
The cilantro pepita dressing on this salad from A Girl Defloured is good with just about everything. Use it for this salad–or pour it over simple lettuce greens, use it as a dip for veggies, or use it to top grilled shrimp. Any way you have it, the bright cilantro & jalapeno peppers combine with the roasted pepitas and cheese to make a simultaneously fresh and rich sauce.
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Chicken Taco Stuffed Avocados
We love an avocado boat and this chicken taco stuffed version from Yes to Yolks has us swooning!
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Spicy Cucumber Avocado Salad with Garlic Chili Vinaigrette
The Delicious Life created this in-your-face avocado salad with garlic, vinegar, and fire! Consider yourself warned, this one is addictive.
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California Avocado Three-Bean Salad
Made with three varieties of beans—black, garbanzo, and cannellini—this hearty salad is filled with chopped cucumber, red onion, cherry tomatoes, and mint.
Lightly tossed with cubes of ripe avocados and a tangy lemon-lime vinaigrette with minced garlic and ground sumac, this salad is a bright collage of flavors and textures.
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Garga Arugula Avocado Hearts Of Palm Salad
This super simple salad from Salt & Wind is made with spicy arugula, toasty pine nuts, and salty Parmigiano, but the addition of avocado and hearts of palm make it truly something special.
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Avocado Sashimi
With just a couple of avocados and some pantry staples, you can approximate the flavors and textures of creamy, delicate slices of sashimi anytime, even when you have no fresh fish on hand.
With a salty-sweet sauce and a dash of spicy shichimi togarashi, this paleo and vegan sashimi from Nom Nom Paleo is delicious enough for eaters of all stripes.
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Citrus Salad with Avocado, Pistachios, and Feta
This salad from The Delicious Life is equal parts sweet and tart with multiple types of fresh citrus, pistachio, and Feta.
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Side dish recipes with avocado.
Don’t sequester those California avocados to simply a starring role in the guacamole on Taco Tuesday. There are lots of delicious side dish recipes where avocado can be the star.
Chips and Guac Deviled Eggs
Deviled eggs that taste like our favorite chips and guac? Yes please!! This recipe from This Mess is Ours is a great appetizer or side dish that will be met with rave reviews.
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Chilled Avocado Soup
This chilled soup {Sopa de Aguacate} with Farmers’ Market Fairy Dust from Hola Jalapeno makes an easy, healthy light lunch or dinner for hot summer nights.
Silky smooth and utterly refreshing topped with crunchy sunflower seeds and edible flowers.
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Guacanoochi
Just when you thought you’d seen it all… leave it to the Husbands that Cook to invent something entirely brand new; something that’s never been attempted in a kitchen before; a recipe that is completely unsearchable on Google; a debut dip that is going to change the way you think about guacamole forever.
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Avocado Baked Eggs
This is the ultimate baked avocado recipe from G Free Foodie. Top them with a bit of bacon, roasted red peppers, ham, Parmesan, literally anything goes.
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Asparagus with Zesty Garlic-Tahini Avocado Dressing
This asparagus recipe from No Crumbs Left is the perfect side for a steak or roasted chicken breast, if there’s any left by dinnertime!
If there isn’t, it’s because of the easy, delicious sauce. It is one of Teri’s “Magic Elixirs” that you are going to want to put on everything!
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Avocado in recipes for dinner.
If you haven’t thought about avocados as a key ingredient in your main dish recipes before you are seriously missing out. From pasta to Galettes – avocado is a super star in practically any application.
Kimchi Quesadillas with Swiss Cheese and Avocado
These melt-in-your-mouth quesadillas from Husbands that Cook are easy to prepare. First, you sauté kimchi in butter, turning this traditional Korean delicacy into a tender and spicy filling.
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Crunchy Avocado Tacos
This taco recipe from This Mess is Ours was created simply out of an effort to utilize some pantry items she already had on hand instead of going to the store and is now a family favorite!
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Spaghetti with Asparagus, Wilted Greens, and Avocado
If you’ve never tried avocados with pasta before, let this recipe be your first— you simply toss them in right before serving. They add a rich flavor and a creamy texture to this succulent sauce.
Perfect for any day of the week, this quick pasta from Husbands that Cook is great for a busy work or school night.
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Whole30 Shrimp Tacos with Avocado Crema
These tasty tacos from No Crumbs Left are unbelievably delicious, perfect for weeknight eating, and the best summer meal! Teri calls for jicama wraps to keep these tacos Whole30 compliant, but they would also be delicious in a tortilla.
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Heirloom Tomato and California Avocado Galette
The Husbands that Cook combined all the best flavors of summer to create a memorable meal that is colorful and delicious.
The golden crust is speckled with fresh California Avocados and rosemary and filled with melty Gruyère cheese, seasonal heirloom tomatoes, ribbons of basil, and plenty of crushed garlic. Then it is lovingly topped with thin slices of Fresh California Avocados. What a stunner!
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Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs with Avocado Pickles
Hola Jalapeno has a use for unripe avocados that are still fairly hard. She thinks the rich flesh is a perfect counterpoint to a vinegary pickle brine.
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Avocado in sweet recipes.
We know you probably already have many avocado recipes, but how many avocado dessert recipes do you have?
Avocado Coconut Strawberry Semifreddo
Here in the Golden State, summer corresponds to the height of avocado and strawberry seasons. And, when they’re in their prime, we use both as often as possible.
The traditional frozen Italian dessert, semifreddo, gets a decidedly California twist thanks to the combination of avocado, lime, and strawberries! This Avocado Coconut Strawberry Semifreddo recipe will for sure become one of your favorite desserts!
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches
This ice cream from Husbands that Cook is incredibly simple to make. You just blend a few ingredients in a food processor, stir in some whipped cream, freeze it, and that’s it. The results are divine—creamy like gelato, smooth like silk, perfectly minty, and filled with mini chocolate chips in every bite.
This ice cream is flavored with mint leaves and peppermint extract for an extra minty flavor. Ripe avo adds to the extra creamy texture and gives this dessert a gorgeous light green color.
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Avocado Ice Cream
Ice Cream From Scratch made this extra creamy, decadent, and smooth avocado ice cream and we are here for it!!!
This dessert is sweet yet balanced with the smooth flavor of fresh avocados. This isn’t an ice cream that you can buy at the grocery store!
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Vegan Mint Chip Avocado Milkshake
This milkshake from Husbands that Cook is cool, minty, chocolatey, and delicious! The frosty emerald green color from the California avocados will look quite elegant in your hand at your next summer party.
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Flourless Triple Chocolate Cake
This cake from Husbands that Cook is ultra-dense, fudgy, and delicious with a few tasty twists. Three kinds of chocolate, a pinch of espresso powder, and avocado.
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Hungry for more delicious avocado in recipes?
California Avocado Recipes You Haven’t Tried, But Should!
If you find yourself in need of delicious, California Avocado recipes you have found the right place! We are answering all of your burning questions about avocados from how they are grown, how to store them and how to eat them.
Frequently asked questions about avocados.
Chances are if you have eaten an avocado before you have probably Google searched the best ways to store an avocado. Lucky for you our friend Jerry James Stone has done lots of research on the topic and shared his findings on You Tube. Click here to learn how to store an avocado.
Avocados are grown year-round, with peak season occurring from April to August.