Chicken-Avocado Salad
"I serve this a lot when we have hot weather. It's easy to prepare and can be prepared a couple of hours ahead of time and kept cold in the refrigerator. Serve hot garlic bread with this...the different tastes complement each other."
photo by mianbao
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 large ripe avocados, cut in half and seeds removed
- 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
- 2 cups finely chopped cold cooked chicken
- 1⁄2 cup finely chopped celery
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 dash hot pepper sauce (optional)
- salt and pepper
- lettuce leaf
directions
- Scoop the pulp out of the avocado shells, reserving the shells.
- Dice pulp.
- Combine the Chicken, celery, lemon juice, mayonnaise and hot pepper sauce in a large bowl.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Add the diced avocado pulp to the chicken mixture and toss gently.
- Fill avocado shells with chicken mixture and top with egg slices.
- Serve on a bed of lettuce leaves.
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Reviews
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This is a very good tasting salad, with ingredients that go together well. The suggestion to serve it in avocado shells is not, in my opinion, a very good one. First of all, I don't think its really all that attractive. Next, maybe because I increased the celery considerably, it wouldn't fit in the fairly big avocado shells I had. Also because I do not really like having things that are inedible mixed up in my food, and lastly because I don't like taking extra time for things that are not useful. I do prefer the egg chopped and mixed in the salad. However, I would never subtract one star for this - half at most. And it gains a half for the lovely flavor. Thank you very much for sharing this recipe with us. I am sure there are more artsy crafty people around who would agree with your serving advice. -
This is a refreshing meal when eaten with lettuce.
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Carol in Oregon 2
Grants Pass, Oregon
One of my passions (after my husband, 2 sons and their families) is cooking, from simple things to gourmet. I get great pleasure out of pleasing my family and they return the favor to me.
We do a lot of family things together, but probably our favorite is going camping, getting a little grubby and doing alot of trout fishing.
Both of my sons, my brother and myself love to cook (even when we are camping) so everyone around us eats quite well.
We have gotten into Dutch Oven cooking when we are on these trips. It's a lot of fun and everything tastes so good! But when you're out in the fresh air, even burnt hot dogs are great.
My greatest hobby, the past few years, is making personalized cook books for my closest friends and family. Everyone seems to enjoy them and I add recipes to them every day. I started with a volume for myself, because I got tired of trying to remember which cook book a recipe was in....it has increased to five volumes and will soon be six. I have done the same for them, too, and enjoy every minute of it.
