If my kitchen was a restaurant this simple garden salad would be the house salad. This is the everyday salad that we have at least a few times a week. It is also the same salad that both my mother and grandmother will make if you are having a regular meal at their home. Sometimes other veggies such as radishes, cucumbers, carrots or others are added, but you could say that the base is lettuce, tomatoes, onions and avocado with a lime cilantro dressing.
Delicious and refreshing garden salad recipe made with lettuce, tomato, onion and avocado with a lime cilantro dressing
Ingredients
- 1 head of lettuce, washed and leaves cut or torn into large pieces
- 2 tomatoes, sliced or quartered
- ½ red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 avocado, sliced or diced
- 1 tbs finely chopped cilantro
- Juice of 2 limes
- 2 tbs olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- To make the dressing whisk the chopped cilantro, lime juice, olive oil, salt and pepper together.
- Combine the lettuce, tomatoes, onions and avocado in a large bowl.
- Toss the salad with the dressing and serve.
Notes
Add slices of grilled chicken or meat, or leftover salmon/shrimp to make this full entree style salad.
This tomato, avocado, onion and lettuce salad is one of those refreshing yummy salads that taste great and make you feel good. My kids love it and I think it is because of the lime dressing, they aren’t as enthusiastic about salads with vinegar based dressings, but they constantly ask for seconds when I make this garden salad, which makes me think that as long as I put lime juice on their food they will eat it.
Rebecca says
March 28, 2014 at 8:33 amYum we love this salad! Thanks for sharing!
Michele says
March 5, 2014 at 4:57 amThank you for sharing this recipe! I have made this several times. Love, love, love it! It’s great w/ shrimp.
maria ochoa says
March 16, 2013 at 11:37 amsencillamente espectacular!!!!!!!! la acompañas con carne asada deliciosa!
Hannah says
March 9, 2013 at 1:58 pmThis was amazing! I typically don’t even comment but I’ve made this salad two days in a row now and sooo good! I’ll be making this a lot this summer. I’m addicted to salsa and guac which this has all the ingredients plus lettuce.
Christy says
January 4, 2013 at 1:12 pmJust made this! So easy and so delicious!! Thank you!
Jen says
December 31, 2012 at 1:46 pmSO smart of you to watermark your photos. I found the picture on Pinterest, and blindly pinned without checking it out first, and (GASP) the link was to a different page that didn’t have the recipe. Thanks to your watermark, I tracked it down :). You may want to go on Pinterest and see who is using your photos without citing them though:/
Thanks for the recipe!
Christine says
July 3, 2012 at 6:07 pmJust made this tonight & it was perfect – simple, tasty. Probably helps that I LOVE lime. :)
rodo says
January 14, 2011 at 4:50 ami tried this salad and it was absolutely delicious, i took it to my collegues at work and they loved it, not a drop was left! i will be making again tommorrow for my friends and am sure it will be another thumbs up!
Paz says
August 16, 2008 at 3:42 amAhhh! Thanks, Layla. I’m going to look for the knife. I like the idea of the knife skills class. Very cool. I’m going to look into that, too.
Paz
Laylita says
August 15, 2008 at 9:23 amHi Paz – Use a sharp knife – my favorite one for onions is actually a tomato knife, it is small and has a nice super sharp blade, you can get one at Amazon.com for under $10 or for a little bit more at William’s Sonoma -, I also remember that when I was learning I would do it very slowly to get each slice as thin as possible; or if you have a mandolin it does all the work for you- I have a cheap plastic one that works well, it also helps with a lot of other different cuts, but it is a pain to clean so I only use it when I cutting/slicing a lot of things. I also took a knife skills class a few months ago, it was very useful, especially learning how to use chef knifes (I still need to get one of those,) also I learned I was holding the knife the wrong way and doing everything backwards.
Paz says
August 15, 2008 at 3:58 amI’m going to try this salad today! Only problem I have is cutting the onions thinly. Do you have any tips?
Paz
Kathy says
September 15, 2016 at 7:22 amI use a mandolin, but one has to be REALLY careful…….