Avocado and Smoked Salmon Salad with Caper Dressing

Ripe avocados are delicious and best of all they provide our bodies with a healthy source of monounsaturated fats, fat soluble vitamins, fibre and an abundance of vitamins and minerals essential to good health. They are a fantastic ingredient for a salad, which is why they work so well in this Avocado and Smoked Salmon Salad recipe by one of our Mouths of Mums members.

Below is a delicious Avocado and Smoked Salmon Salad with a tasty caper dressing. It’s very quick and easy to put together, making this Avocado and Smoked Salmon Salad a perfect dinner idea after a long day at work. Serve with crusty bread to mop up any leftover dressing.

Avocado and Smoked Salmon Salad with Caper Dressing

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

Caper Dressing:

2 tbspn extra virgin olive oil
1 tbspn fresh lemon juice
2 tbspn capers, roughly chopped
freshly cracked black peppercorns

Salad:

50g rocket leaves
200g green beans, blanched
100g smoked salmon slices
1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced
1 small, ripe avocado
crusty bread, for serving

Method:

1. Place olive oil, lemon juice and capers into a screw-top jar. Season with pepper and shake to combine.

2. Divide rocket leaves, beans, salmon and red onion onto serving plates.

3. Cut avocado in half length ways, remove and discard stone and skin. Cut avocado into slices and add to salad.

4. Drizzle dressing over salad, season with extra cracked pepper and serve immediately.

TIPS:

1. Avocados (like pears) do not ripen on trees. Instead ripening actually occurs when avocados are harvested. To ripen an avocado (or pear), place in a brown paper bag and store at room temperature until softened. To speed up the ripening process, place avocado near other ripening fruit.

Many ripening fruit like bananas and apples naturally give off ethylene gas and this helps speed the ripening process. To slow down the ripening process, keep your avos in the fridge.

2. Drizzle all cut surfaces of an avocado with lemon or lime juice to prevent the avocado from discolouring (although these brown bits are still perfectly fine to eat!).

108 Comments

- - Happymum-2 said
  - 15 May 2014
    7:28 pm
a delicious dish and the capers would give that salty taste to it as well

- - no1ladydj said
  - 06 May 2014
    1:21 pm
I could eat avocado and smoked salmon until the cows come home. It’s my absolute favourite savoury snack. Hard not to eat the whole pack of smoked salmon myself though. Nice with a bit of horseradish cream too.
- mom93821 replied
  
  30 Sep 2019 , 1:37 pm
  I agree – avocado and salmon is ridiculously delicious.
- - cheezel said
  - 27 Apr 2014
    10:32 pm
Thanks for the extra info on the avo

- - shazzbot said
  - 21 Mar 2014
    8:04 am
This looks so fresh and healthy, yum

- - jenny9761 said
  - 06 Mar 2014
    1:44 pm
This sound like a great salad

- - anniemcdermott said
  - 22 Jan 2014
    2:17 pm
Mmm yum!

- - ljsalomon said
  - 07 Jan 2014
    8:41 am
Looks great – thanks for sharing

- - kathryn said
  - 31 Dec 2013
    6:36 pm
This looks so light and fresh and tasty

- - sizzlingcool said
  - 28 Dec 2013
    3:10 pm
I had something very similar last night at a friends Christmas Left-over party and it was demolished… tasted amazing. My friend added walnuts and sprinkled them over the top for decoration.
- mom93821 replied
  
  25 Apr 2016 , 4:29 am
  This does sound like a nice topper – good idea.
- - jadeeeee said
  - 26 Dec 2013
    11:43 am
yum – thanks for sharing

- - sizzlingcool said
  - 17 Dec 2013
    7:07 pm
Oh WOW – salad’s can’t get any better than this. This is right up my alley. Definately making this one.

- - meimei said
  - 03 Dec 2013
    10:57 pm
Winner dish – we all enjoy this Avocado and salmon salad. Yummy 🙂

- - sonja_holness said
  - 29 Nov 2013
    5:27 pm
This looks really fancy and indulgent.

- - coppin85 said
  - 27 Nov 2013
    4:05 pm
This looks so delicious! Thanks for sharing 🙂

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 31 Oct 2013
    4:43 pm
mmm what a great way to use avocado

- - meimei said
  - 25 Oct 2013
    12:14 pm
Yummy salad – my hubby favourite.

- - barch said
  - 24 Oct 2013
    12:13 pm
A simple and healthy meal to make when entertaining.

- - rainbownerds said
  - 15 Oct 2013
    6:37 pm
This sounds yummy and healthy

- - emily_flores said
  - 04 Oct 2013
    11:43 pm
Sounds yummy minus the capers not sure if I will like them

- - meltingmoment said
  - 02 Oct 2013
    9:41 pm
I’m thinking of going on a salmon/tuna diet. This would be great for that.