This 3-Ingredient Cucumber Salad Is Refreshingly Simple - Tasting Table

"In our salad, cucumbers get a boost of creaminess and flavor from ripe avocados, which work here both chopped as an ingredient and blended as the base for our salad dressing. The other unique component is piquant pickled pearl onions, whose brine we also use as the acid in our dressing. Whether you eat this salad immediately or make it ahead for a work lunch the next day, it's going to taste fresh, creamy, tangy, and slightly sweet."

"Drain and thinly slice the pickled pearl onions, reserving the liquid. Dice 1 avocado and set it aside. Combine the remaining avocado with olive oil, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons of the liquid from the pearl onions, and enough water to make the sauce liquid in a blender. Process until it is smooth and pourable. Combine the cucumbers, sliced onions, and diced avocado in a serving bowl. Toss with the avocado dressing, and season with additional salt and pepper."

Three ingredients—cucumbers, avocados, and pickled pearl onions—create a creamy, tangy cucumber salad with contrasting textures. One avocado is diced into the salad while the other is blended with olive oil, pickled onion liquid, salt, pepper, and water to form a smooth, pourable dressing. Thinly sliced pearl onions add piquancy and their brine supplies the dressing acid. Persian cucumbers are sliced into rounds and tossed with sliced onions, diced avocado, and the avocado dressing. The salad can be eaten immediately or made ahead for lunch, offering fresh, creamy, tangy, and slightly sweet flavors.

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