This strawberry avocado honey lime salad is topped with a sweet and tangy dressing to make salad eating fun!
This salad is the epitome of fake it till you make it.
(It’s also the epitome of indecisiveness with 3 pictures that all look exactly the same. Sorry, I couldn’t choose.)
If I start eating like it, warm weather will eventually come.
Right?
Because as it stands right now, I’m sitting on the floor in my dining room in the patch of sun pretending like vitamin D can be absorbed through the window.
I have no idea if that’s possible or not, but considering I’m not the type who gets a sunburn on cloudy days, I’m gonna go with no.
This might be the first year (that I can remember at least) where the forsythia aren’t even in bloom on my birthday (in 11 days). There’s not even a hint of yellow on those branches yet, they’re still fully in the ugly brown stick phase they’ve been in for the past 5 months.
So before I lose it on Mother Nature and her 38 degree days in April, I’ll just be shoving strawberries, avocados and kiwis down my throat in my imaginary happy place where the heat has been permanently turned off, I’m tan and my faux-fur slippers have been retired for the season.
Feel free to join me.
Looking for more strawberry salad inspiration? Try this strawberry goat cheese salad or strawberry tabouleh.
Strawberry Avocado Honey Lime Salad
Ingredients
- 2 cups mixed greens/chopped lettuce
- 1/2 cup sliced strawberries
- 1 kiwi, sliced
- 1/2 avocado, sliced
- 1 tablespoon sliced almonds
- 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt
- zest of 1/2 a lime
- juice of 1/2 a lime
- pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon honey
Instructions
- Arrange the lettuce, strawberries, kiwi, avocado and almonds in a salad bowl.
- Whisk together the remaining ingredients to form the dressing and drizzle over salad.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Gina Matsoukas is an AP syndicated writer. She is the founder, photographer and recipe developer of Running to the Kitchen — a food website focused on providing healthy, wholesome recipes using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets both digital and print, including MSN, Huffington post, Buzzfeed, Women’s Health and Food Network.
Yes please!!
I’ve always loved the combo of strawberries and avocado in my salad, but I love your addition of the kiwis!
The perfect summer salad!
We are with you 100%! We’ve also been eating strawberries and avocados like it’s our job for the same reasons as you. So far it hasn’t worked very well, but that doesn’t stop us from trying!
This salad has me excited for spring…where is it??
This salad has be excited for spring…where is it??
Girl, I am THERE. I am so sick of this drab, cold weather. We planted tulips last year and they aren’t even sprouting up yet. They were probably going to, then felt the cold and thought, “Oh HELL no.” We have been graced with a little more sun than it sounds like you’re having, but it’s mostly deceiving into making me believe it’s warmer outside than it is. And it isn’t. It’s a sunny 21 degrees this morning! Mother nature is a troll.
I can’t wait for the weather to warm up..the strawberries at our stores are kinda tasteless :/ blah.
ps- love the honesty in every post :)
Strawberries and avocados are meant for each other! This is the perfect salad to welcome Spring!
This recipe looks so fresh. I love the idea of fruit in salads especially strawberries like this.