Enter your email & we’ll send it to your inbox. Plus, get great new recipes from us every week! By submitting this form, you consent to receive emails from Hurry the Food Up. I don’t think it would be unfair to say many people find salads boring, or that the idea of lettuce and tomatoes isn’t everybody’s dream meal. But what if it could be? What if you could make a salad dressing so good, so tasty, that you want to smother all your food with it? So moreish you’ll be dreaming up new ways to eat it? That’s where this avocado salad dressing comes in. I’m sure I’ll quickly run out of superlatives, but it just makes any salad taste INCREDIBLE. It’s ripe, it’s tangy and if you’ve been looking for a way to spice up your lunch life then well, you’re in luck. But that’s not even the best part…
Avocado salad dressing = guacamole with a bang
Avocados are self-regulating little bombs of health. One of the key things to remember about vegetables (and salads) is that for the body to absorb the good stuff inside (like vitamins and carotenoids) properly they need a little of the good fats to go with them. Avocados are full of them, and this study shows just how successfully avocado helps the body to absorb fats. By adding this creamy avocado dressing for salad you are literally improving the benefits of the rest of the ingredients – which is already awesome, of course!
What are avocados good for?
Avocados work well in literally everything – salads, toasts, smoothies, dips, even ice cream. But are they really healthy and weight loss friendly? Definitely! It’s a very unique fruit (yeah, fruit) rich in nutrients and high in fiber. One medium avocado contains about 21 grams of fat. It may sound a lot but the monosaturated fats in it are actually healthy. The high-fat content doesn’t mean avocados are bad for weight loss. It means you’ll stay full longer and won’t get any unnecessary calories from snacking too much. Studies show that people who regularly eat avocados may gain less excess weight over the long term. So the high amount of fat and fiber makes food release slowly from your stomach and therefore promote healthy weight loss. Our avocado salad dressing recipe aims to provide all these incredible avocado benefits for your body. If you want more tips on how to lose weight on a balanced vegetarian diet, check out this free vegetarian weight loss meal plan.
We’re not done yet
Still looking for more? As this healthy avocado dressing is only the finish for your salad, you can make the salad any way you want – use your favourite ingredients or whatever you have just laying around. It pretty much goes with anything. Of course, we felt it would be rude not to test the avocado dressing salad recipe several times, and we came up with our favourite combo. Beans, tomatoes, lettuce and red onion was a simple but great salad mix with the avocado dressing, and a few self-made nachos on the side really finished things off. You can get the five-minute nachos right here. As we said at the beginning, sometimes it really pays to find ways to get back to basics. Cut the junk, and start eating real, whole foods again. You’re almost guaranteed to feel better. For the record, this particular avocado salad dressing is vegan, too. Enjoy all the avocado healthiness and citrus richness while devouring this vegan avocado salad dressing (and if you want more ideas, try some of these low calorie salad dressings too!)!
