Avocado egg salad | low carb & vegetarian

This healthy avocado egg salad is tasty and simple, great for lunch or dinner. This recipe is low carb, vegetarian, paleo andgluten-free!

You know what we were thinking while putting this healthy avocado salad together?

“OMG, this is a keto recipe. It is. We're so in ketosis right now!”

Then we put it on a piece bread and forgot everything.

Since we researched and wrote our article on the ketogenic diet We have been thinking about it often. It was such a fascinating and convincing research it made us feel like we need to eat less carbs. Well, not that we didn’t know we need to eat less carbs – with our family history and belly fat. We know it.

Our dad knows it.

But do we do it?

No.

In fact yesterday we had dinner at his house and he offered us a coconut cookie. Not a healthy alternative, a real cookie. As many as we wanted. And surprise, good thing we're on that 66 Day Challenge – we said no. And we don’t regret it a bit, we did not miss out. He, on the other hand, did have a cookie.

We're trying to convince our dad to eat a more plant-based lower-carb diet, because he has diabetes, we talked a little bit about it here. However our strategy seems to not be working. But we'll keep trying and buying him all the raw vegan books he has to read.

But now we're thinking, maybe the ketogenic diet will work for him? Again we don’t know how to convince him to do it. We will try to find a good book. They seem to be kinda working.

Maybe this avocado egg salad will also do the magic trick.

It did work for us and our mom who was starving, so no guarantee on her part, but we loved this little salad. It’s satisfying, healthy with all the vegetables inside and it’s satisfying. We did eat it a big part of it with bread, because if we don’t eat bread – who am we?

And if you don’t care about this being paleo, vegetarian or keto – it’s still a good healthy salad, no need for mayonnaise here.

How it comes together

The first thing you need to do is boil some eggs, hard boil them. Boil them real good.

Then open an avocado scoop it out and put it in a big bowl.

Next start chopping vegetables. Don’t forget the olives. We repeat: DO NOT FORGET THE OLIVES. So good in there, they make for this contrast between sweet from the red peppers, savory from the eggs and then the olives are salty! Actually, we’ve got all the tastes here – sweet, salty, sour (lemon), bitter (greens), savory and fat. See how satisfying this salad is? It’s got all tastes.

Let’s not get distracted though. Next we take a fork and mash the avocado with some garlic and lemon until it’s unrecognizable. We add the rest of the ingredients, mash some more and then grind some black pepper and add a pinch of salt after having a taste. We needed to add some salt, you might be different – taste before adding salt.

And that’s it. It doesn’t take too long, we hope you enjoy it!

PS: In case you missed our post on the ketogenic diet, here it is: 20 alkaline foods to eat on the keto diet.