This strawberry avocado salad with spinach combines fresh summer strawberries, leafy greens, and creamy avocado with a sweet-tangy homemade honey mustard dressing. It’s ready in minutes with the best mix of crunchy, fresh, and fruity flavors!
I love turning fresh strawberries into everything from strawberry salsa to bruschetta in the summertime. This is one of my favorite strawberry salads, which definitely gets 5 stars for flavor and ease! It’s a combination of leafy greens, ripe avocado, juicy sliced strawberries, red onions, and crunchy nuts, drizzled with a simple homemade honey mustard dressing (from my honey mustard chicken salad). Every bite of this strawberry avocado salad is refreshing, tangy, and a little sweet.
It’s easy to make this strawberry salad into a light meal by adding juicy air fryer shrimp, blackened salmon, or grilled chicken breast on top. Otherwise, it’s a delicious side salad for a summer dinner that I just know you’ll love.
Strawberry Avocado Salad Recipe Highlights
- 5 minutes. That’s all the time it takes to whip up this easy strawberry salad and dressing.
- All about contrast. Juicy berries, crunchy almonds, and creamy avocado offer irresistible textures and flavors.
- Adaptable. Add your favorite veggies, nuts, croutons, and add-ons. It’s also delicious with grilled protein.
Key Ingredients
Here are the easy ingredients in this strawberry, spinach, and avocado salad recipe. Check the recipe card at the bottom of the post for exact ingredient amounts.
- Spinach – I prefer baby spinach for this as it’s more tender, but Swiss chard, regular spinach, kale, or any salad greens will work.
- Fresh strawberries – Please don’t use frozen/freeze-dried/anything but FRESH strawberries here! Other fresh berries, like blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries, are a great way to add variety to this salad.
- Avocados – An easy way to test if your avocado is ripe is to press it gently. It should feel firm to the touch, but with a little give.
- Almonds – Bonus points if they’re toasted! Chopped pecans and walnuts are great alternatives. Swap the nuts for croutons or crispy chickpeas to make the salad nut-free.
- Red onion – Another mild salad onion works, too.
- Salad dressing – I include my homemade honey mustard dressing, but you can use your favorite! This spinach strawberry salad would go great with any of my homemade salad dressings.
How to Make a Strawberry Avocado Salad
This 2-step strawberry spinach salad with avocado is pretty much foolproof. The trick, as with most green salad recipes, is adding the dressing right before it’s time to serve. Otherwise, the ingredients become a bit soggy.
- Whisk the dressing. Mix the stone-ground mustard, dijon, honey, thyme, garlic, salt, and pepper in a small bowl until well combined. Set it aside.
- Assemble the salad. Toss the spinach, strawberries, avocados, red onion, and almonds in a large bowl until mixed. Serve with dressing on the side and enjoy.
Quick Variations
These variations are all about making this strawberry avocado salad your own with what you have on hand.
- Different fruit. Add sliced mango, peaches, or apples to make this salad even fruitier. Fresh berries are also super yummy.
- Swap the dressing. Out of honey mustard dressing, or don’t have all the ingredients to make it right now? Use your favorite store-bought dressing instead.
- Add protein. Adding sliced grilled chicken or rotisserie chicken will make the salad much more filling. It also makes a great work lunch or light dinner when I don’t feel like cooking.
- More add-ins. Swap fresh red onions with pickled red onions, or add sliced radishes, green onions, and fresh herbs, like basil.
Make-Ahead Tips
- Prep the ingredients. Slice the strawberries and onions, chop the nuts, and prepare the dressing in advance for an even quicker salad throughout the week. Store everything in separate containers in the fridge until you’re ready to assemble.
- Wait for the avocado. If you’re not serving the salad for at least another couple of hours or another day, don’t add the avocado just yet because it’ll brown. Add it until right before serving.
- Keep it away from heat. Especially when on the counter or table for serving, keep the assembled spinach strawberry salad away from heat and sunlight. It’ll spoil faster (nobody wants that!).
What to Serve With This Avocado Strawberry Salad
I like to serve this strawberry avocado salad with grilled protein, summer dishes, and appetizers washed down with a strawberry mojito or this non-boozy coconut pineapple mocktail. These are some favorite serving ideas:
- Chicken: Try my bacon-wrapped chicken breast or air fryer chicken breast for an easy dinner. I also love this garlic herb roasted turkey breast when I’m entertaining.
- Seafood: If you’re craving seafood, pair it with my pan-seared Chilean sea bass.
- Appetizers: Have this salad on the side of these loaded sweet potato fries, mini quiches, spicy honey sriracha chicken wings, or crispy bang bang shrimp.
Storing Extras
Store any leftover strawberry salad in an airtight container for up to 3 days. Ideally, store the dressing separately, or the spinach will soften. Serve it straight out of the fridge and enjoy.
More Summer Salad Recipes to Try
Strawberry Avocado Salad
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 4-6 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Description
This easy strawberry avocado salad with spinach and honey mustard dressing will be your new favorite summer salad recipe. It’s ready in 5 minutes!
Ingredients
- 10 ounces of spinach
- 2 cups strawberries, hulled & quartered
- 2 avocados, sliced
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 1/4 cup red onion, sliced
Honey Mustard Dressing:
- 1 tablespoon stone ground mustard
- 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons raw honey
- 1/2 teaspoon dry thyme
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a small bowl, add stone ground mustard, dijon mustard, honey, thyme, garlic, salt and pepper. Whisk together until combined and set aside.
- To a large bowl add spinach, strawberries, avocados, red onion, and almonds. Serve with dressing on the side.
Notes
- To store. Store any leftovers in an airtight container for up to 3 days. Store the dressing separately, otherwise the spinach will soften. Serve it straight out of the fridge and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 1/2 cup
- Calories: 122
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 256 mg
- Fat: 5 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 4 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
26 comments on “Strawberry Spinach Salad”
Thumbs up for the honey mustard dressing…never knew it’s so easy to make…Thanks….
Awesome! Glad you liked it! And hurray on easy to make dressings!
This was so yummy! My whole family loved it! Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome Jennifer! I’m pumped you and the fam loved it!
This recipe is so amazingly simple but absolutely delicious. Due to a health condition I had to go grain free and paleo so going to potluck dinners was a pain. Now I can bring this salad and am all set. I did change vinegar to white wine vinegar and added chicken that was marinated in the dressing before grilling. Yumminess!!! Thank you for sharing.
Yeah! So glad you have a go to potluck dish now Christine! 🙂 And the alterations sound great, especially the marinated chicken!
Hi Krista! I’m friends with Zainab over at Blahnik Baker and when she showed me your blog I was so excited! This salad is actually what I have been eating almost every lunch on my Paleo endeavor myself – delicious. I am excited to try out your dressing and also the Practical Paleo book you recommended 🙂
HEY!!!! I heard about you, Zainab told me that she sent one of her friends my way. So excited to meet you! Ok, fyi- my parents almost named me Trista, too funny! 🙂
So glad that you have loved that salad, the dressing in that is my favorite, love the tang from the vinegar. 🙂 So are you gonna stay paleo or do it for a set amount of time? You will love the Practical Paleo book, looks of good info in the beginning about why we eat what we eat and then some great recipes!
Yes! All the *ristas that I have met are awesome! The hope is to make the permanent switch to Paleo (with the occasional exception of some dairy hehe). Which is why your blog and Practical Paleo are so helpful – great ideas for variety and happy healthy living!
I agree… *ristas are pretty awesome! 🙂
So awesome on your paleo switch, I’m like you. I will probably do it for the most part except for the occasional exceptions. So glad that my blog has been such a blessing to you! 🙂 YEAH!
Oh my goodness this looks so tasty!
Thanks so much Shannon!
The “problem” with this salad is that I’m going to eat it up all by myself.
I like it that much 🙂
haha… not a problem at all. I do it all the time. 🙂
Krista, I love this salad – the picture alone drew me in! Pinning and making soon 🙂
🙂 Thanks so much Deb, means alot coming from you. LOVE your food photography, always want to eat the screen!
Hehe, we go through phases like that too but you’re so right, consistency is the key 🙂 This salad looks wonderful and so refreshing! Love the pretty pop of color from the strawberries 🙂 So glad to hear that the Paleo diet is working well for you guys so far too and hope you have a wonderful week Krista!
Yup, if your consistantly eating that foliage packed with fiber it makes your colon one happen camper. 🙂
Thank you so much for the salad compliments, your always too sweet to me. Hope you have a great rest of the week!
What a gorgeous salad Krista! I bet I’d feel amazing after eating this for lunch 🙂 Love it!
Aww.. thanks so much Trish! That is HUGE coming from you!
P.S. Can I just say… kinda blushed a bit when I saw a comment from you! 🙂
Salad has been sound sooo good to me lately and this salad is no exception! Great job as usual 🙂
Happy Blogging!
Happy Valley Chow
I have been loving it the past week and a half, had it again today and added chicken for some protein. DE-lish! 🙂
You always inspire me, Krista. It’s a salad kind of ghost town in my house every week. I love the greens you used to create this beautiful salad! Have a fun Wednesday!
Thanks so much Gloria, that means alot! Sounds like you need to bring your family out of the salad ghost town, then give them some of those amazing cookies you always make! 🙂
Have a great day my friend.
So many pretty salads on the blogs today. I love ones that include strawberries. That dressings sounds delicious!
I know, I’m loving it Melanie! 🙂
Thanks so much on the foodie compliments, your too sweet. Always love seeing comments from you sweet friend! Hope you have a great rest of the day!