Avocado, cucumbers, and red onions tossed in a sweet and tangy garlic sauce. This honey garlic cucumber salad is refreshing, perfect with rice or noodles.
Hi! This is Andrea from Cooking with a Wallflower. I’m back this month on Ask Anna to share with you a brand new recipe perfect for the summer.
We don’t have that many hot days in San Francisco. But when we do, during warm summer days, I really prefer meals that don’t require much cooking. The simpler the meal, the better. Mostly because a hot kitchen on already hot days is not my favorite place to be. For this month, I wanted to share with you this honey garlic soy avocado cucumber salad.
This salad is sweet and tangy and even a little spicy. You can easily customize the sweetness, tanginess, and spiciness to your level of comfort. It has all the ingredients that you probably have on hands. And it’s super easy to make.
Is there any particular dish that you like to go to when it’s hot out and you prefer not to have to turn on the stove or the oven?
In a small bowl, add minced garlic, Thai chili, scallions, lemon juice, soy sauce, water, honey, red onions, and black pepper. Stir to mix all the ingredients together. Allow it to sit for about 10 minutes.
In either a Tupperware or a medium sized bowl, add sliced avocado and cucumbers.
Pour the spicy honey garlic soy sauce mixture over the avocado and cucumbers. Allow the avocado and cucumbers to soak in all the flavor.
Best served cold so I would either use avocados and cucumbers that came from the fridge. Or refrigerate the avocado cucumber salad for at least 20 minutes before serving.
Serve the honey garlic soy avocado cucumber salad cold with rice or noodles.
Enjoy!
Andrea
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 Thai chili, thinly sliced
- 2 scallions, thinly sliced
- Juice of 1 lemon
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup water
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon sesame seed
- ½ red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 Persian cucumbers, sliced
- 1 large avocado, sliced
- In a small bowl, add minced garlic, Thai chili, scallions, lemon juice, soy sauce, water, honey, red onions, sesame seeds, and black pepper. Stir to mix all the ingredients together. Allow it to sit for about 10 minutes.
- In either a Tupperware or a medium sized bowl, add sliced avocado and cucumbers.
- Pour the spicy honey garlic soy sauce mixture over the avocado and cucumbers. Allow the avocado and cucumbers to soak in all the flavor.
- Best served cold so I would either use avocados and cucumbers that came from the fridge. Or refrigerate the avocado cucumber salad for at least 20 minutes before serving.
- Serve the honey garlic soy avocado cucumber salad cold with rice or noodles.
Here are some other easy summer recipes!
