This healthy egg salad recipe with avocado has become my go-to lunch! It’s delicious in a pita, tastes great wrapped up in a lettuce leaf, and can be served “inside-out”.
What’s inside-out? Leave out the celery when making the egg salad. Then stuff the egg salad in the celery to serve. Yummy.
This recipe calls for grated red onion. I think it is the key to the salad. It imparts the flavor of the onion but you don’t end up biting into a piece of onion. Know what I mean?
Finally, when it comes to seasoning the salad with salt and pepper, this is my trick.
Healthy Egg Salad Recipe with Avocado
Ingredients
- 6 hard boiled eggs
- 1 avocado
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons grated red onion
- 1/4 cup chopped celery
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mash the hard boiled eggs.
- In a second small bowl, mash together the avocado, lemon juice, and red onion.
- Stir together the eggs, the avocado mixture, and the chopped celery. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
This healthy egg salad recipe is a great afternoon snack for the kiddos, especially if they have a sport that afternoon. It fills them up without weighing them down.
No ripe avocados at home? Make deviled eggs instead!
Abby McCready
Thank you so much for this recipe! My husband and I are doing the Whole30 this month and I have been trying to figure a way to have egg salad (I often use the “inside out” method you described but including the celery in the recipe still…I’m one of those crazy people that actually likes celery) but didn’t want to go through the hassle of making paleo mayo when I figured there was something better out there (better for you, anyways). This looks like it will work! I may add some organic yellow mustard to mine just cause my grandma always made it with the mustard. Thanks Again! 🙂
Andrea Green
Hi Abby, I’m so glad you like the egg salad with avocado recipe! We made it a lot when we did our sugar detox (not unlike Whole 30). Thank you so much for leaving a comment – that really made my day! Andrea