Name: Avocado Lime Dressing Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 1 Ripe avocado; ½ cup Sour cream ((or green yogurt or plain yogurt)); ½ cup Cilantro; 1 clove Garlic; Salt & Pepper (to taste); ¼ teaspoon Cumin powder; 3 tablespoons Olive oil; ¼ cup Lime juice; ¼-⅓ cup Water

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This avocado lime dressing is a healthier take on mayonnaise-based salad dressings. It’s ultra-creamy, tangy, herby and it’s so yummy drizzled over summer salads, grilled veggies, burrito bowls or perfect as a dip.

A spoonful of avocado lime dressing drizzling back into the mason jar to show consistency.

❤️ You’ll Love This Avocado Lime Dressing Recipe

Requires only 7 ingredients (plus salt, pepper & water).

It’s super easy to make and gets ready in only 5 minutes with the help of your food processor.

This avocado lime dressing is versatile when it comes to serving ideas:

Serve as a salad dressing (like I used in vegetarian taco salad)
Drizzle over your burrito bowls.
Enjoy as a tacos sauce or add into burritos.
Drizzle over grilled or oven-roasted veggies.
Dipping sauce for your chips, fries, wedges or raw veggies.
Spread it over the burger buns or sandwiches.

🧾 Ingredient Notes

Ingredients used in avocado lime dressing in individual bowls on marble surface.

Avocado: Use the ripe one. If you have some little over-ripe avocados lying around with those brown spots (which are not appealing to use in salads) then it’s the perfect time to make this dressing.
Sour cream: It adds more creaminess to the salad dressing. Instead, you can use greek yogurt or plain yogurt.
Cilantro: It gives fresh herby flavor and a vibrant look.
Lime juice: Adds a nice tang to it.
Water: because avocado and sour cream both gives super thick consistency. You’ll need some water to make it drizzle consistency. Adjust the amount as per your liking and usage. If making as a dip, I would keep it thick vs made as a salad dressing.

👩‍🍳 How To Make Avocado Lime Dressing? (Pics)

The process of making this creamy avocado dressing cannot get simpler than this. You’ll just need a food processor or even a blender will work too.

Step 1: Add all the ingredients into the food processor jar.
Step 2: Blend it until smooth and creamy. It’s ready.

Collage of 2 steps showing dressing ingredients in food processor and blended.

📖 Variations

Make it a little spicy: You can add half of the jalapeno (seeds and veins removed). It adds a nice kick to the dressing.

Use different herbs: You can try parsley, chives and dill leaves. Try to use fresh herbs because dry herbs won’t blend that well in the dressing and you’ll be missing the fresh, vibrant flavor.

Reduce the calories: Skip the addition of oil and use more water. This substitution is ok if you are using the dressing right away. Actually, oil binds everything together. If there is more water in the dressing and as it sits water may separate.

Make it less creamy: Skip the sour cream and you’ll have slightly creamy tangy vinaigrette salad dressing. Actually, the addition of sour cream (or greek yogurt) makes it a ranch-like creamy texture.

🥣 Storage

This dressing stays good for 2-3 days only in the refrigerator.
Because of the avocados in it, as your store, the dressing will have discoloration. But sure the taste will be the same.

A white bowl of avocado lime salad dressing with salad plate and more dressing in the back.

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