Avocado chicken salad is creamy, delicious, and healthy and bonus – has no mayo!
One of the most interesting health benefits of avocados is that they make you feel fuller longer. This is because of the abundant fat content. And they sure do have a lot of fat, coming in at around 20-25 grams of fat per fruit. It’s healthy fat though, the kind that is known to lower cholesterol and help with blood pressure. So, they’re loaded with all this healthy fat that helps you, and, when you eat them, it makes you less hungry and less likely to crave other foods later. Avocados, for the win, right?
What’s In Avocado Chicken Salad?
Because of this, I’ve been trying to incorporate avocado into my lunches more and more. To that end, I’ve come up with today’s avocado chicken salad recipe. It’s a straight up, basic chicken salad recipe. You know the kind: chicken, celery, and green onion. But it has avocado instead of mayonnaise.
You’ll definitely taste the avocado mixed into the chicken salad. But it’s not super-strong because there are so many other flavors going on. What you mostly get from the avocado is creaminess, which is what the mayo was in there for anyhow.
Skip the mayo and go with avocado. It’s delicious!
More Avocado Recipes
If you’re looking for more ways to add avocado into your daily diet, I have some great ideas for you over on my sister site, The Cookful:
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Avocado Chicken Salad
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Entrée
- Method: Mix
- Cuisine: American
DESCRIPTION
Avocado chicken salad is creamy, delicious, and healthy and bonus – has no mayo!
Ingredients
- ½ avocado
- 1 and ¼ cup diced cooked chicken
- 1 rib celery, chopped finely
- 2 Tbsp. chopped green onion
- ½ tsp. lemon juice
- ⅛ tsp. salt
- ⅛ tsp. garlic powder
- ⅛ tsp. black pepper
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mash the avocado with a fork until smooth.
- Add the chicken, celery, green onion, lemon juice, salt, garlic powder, and black pepper.
- Stir until well combined.
This post originally appeared in August 2017. It was revised and republished in May 2018.
avocado jo says
there are considerably different size avocados and this is important to recipes for quantity of ingredient at least, if not taste, as well. Could you clarify in all recipes, please? BTW, no one else has either…
Christine Pittman says
Hass avocados are what people in the US are normally able to get from the grocery store. Unless otherwise specified, assume our (and others) recipes are talking about the readily available Hass avocado. Enjoy!