Kale Strawberry Avocado Salad — Make a kale lover out of anyone with this kale strawberry salad! It’s topped with creamy avocado, juicy berries, and homemade strawberry vinaigrette!
Kale Strawberry Avocado Salad Recipe
I love kale and when it’s topped with big juicy strawberries and creamy avocado, even better. I feel healthier just by looking at it. Fruit in salads can sometimes be tricky to pull off sometimes, but here the sweet strawberries are a perfect contrast to the more bitter kale.
Even if you’re not a huge kale fan, there are so many wonderful textures and flavors in every bite you can’t help but like it. It’s filling, satisfying, and healthy.
The simple vinaigrette is made by blending strawberries with apple cider vinegar, honey, olive oil, salt and pepper. You can keep it vegan by using agave. It’s sweet-yet-tangy from strawberries, honey, and apple cider vinegar, and it coats the kale perfectly.
I loved this salad and so my daughter. When I was blending up the vinaigrette she was a bit skeptical that strawberry salad dressing could be good. But after she tried it she said, “Mom, this is a keeper.”
What’s in Kale Strawberry Avocado Salad?
To make the strawberry kale avocado salad itself, you’ll need:
- Kale
- Hass avocado
- Fresh strawberries
And to make the strawberry kale salad dressing, you’ll need:
- Strawberries
- Apple cider vinegar
- Honey
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
How to Make Kale Strawberry Avocado Salad
Simply prep the fruit and veggies, then add to a large bowl. Add the strawberry vinaigrette ingredients to a blender and blend until smoother.
Taste vinaigrette and tweak as necessary to taste before pouring over the summer strawberry salad.
Can I Use Another Leafy Green Besides Kale?
Of course! If you don’t have kale on hand, you can substitute another leafy green like spinach, romaine, etc.
Can I Prep the Dressing in Advance?
Yes! You can make the dressing ahead of time and keep in the fridge for up to 1 week.
Tips for Making Kale Strawberry Salad
If you prefer more savory dressings, reduce the honey and increase the salt and pepper. You could also blend in garlic or red onion.
You’ll have more vinaigrette than you’ll need for the salad and the extra portion will keep airtight in the fridge for a week.
Be sure to tear the kale leaves off the woody stems and discard the stems. They’re almost impossible to chew!
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Strawberry, Avocado, and Kale Salad with Strawberry-Apple Cider Vinaigrette
Ingredients
Salad
- about 6 cups freshly torn kale leaves, with coarse stems and ribs removed
- 1 medium/large ripe Hass avocado, peeled, pitted and sliced thinly
- 1 cup fresh strawberries, halved
Strawberry-Apple Cider Vinaigrette
- 2 cups strawberries, whole with tops off (frozen okay and it’s what I used)
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- 3 to 4 tablespoons honey, or to taste (agave may be substituted to keep vegan)
- 3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil
- ¾ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- ¾ teaspoon black pepper, or to taste
- 1 clove garlic and/or 2 tablespoons diced red onion, optionally add to create a more savory dressing (I didn’t use either)
Instructions
For the Salad:
- To a large bowl or platter, add all ingredients in the order listed; set aside.
For the Vinaigrette:
- To the canister of a high-speed blender or food processor, add all ingredients in the order listed. Blend on high power until texture is as smooth as desired. Taste vinaigrette and tweak as necessary to taste.
- Drizzle over salad, toss to combine, and serve immediately.
Notes
- If you don’t use all the vinaigrette, extra will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 1 week.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Strawberry and avocado… mmm this salad looks delicious!
I love kale, but rarely use it in salads, (usually make kale chips or smoothie). This will definitely change after seeing this recipe! Love the strawberry apple-cider vinaigrette! Pinned for later :)
I have been making kale chips like they’re going out of style lately! Love em! Thanks for pinning!
What a pretty salad! If you’re like me, you eat all the good toppings out first and just leave the lettuce behind.
This little burst of summer-looking salad is EXACTLY what I needed to see today! Looks and sounds like a Katie Salad. I wish there were fresh and local strawberries and avocados here right now. Or ever, in the case of the avocado!
Everyone’s been saying how summery this looks which reminds me that my 77F and sunny weather is pretty summery for most even though it does get into the 40s/50s at night but during the day, cannot complain :)
This is my dream salad! My husband always says salads make him sad but I think this is certainly one he would enjoy! The colors are amazing.
Yes! I love salads like this, we often do a similar one but with spinach. Can’t wait to try your dressing.
If you try it, LMK! I saw a pic of you in Eagle on either FB or IG? last week. Lookin’ good mama :)
This salad is perfect! I’m loving all these flavors. It really doesn’t get better than avocados and berries!
Averie, this salad is gorgeous! I’ve got to try this strawberry apple cider vinaigrette. Brilliant!!
Thanks for the compliments :)
I love all your dressings. I really need to make them instead of just drool over them, because fat-free balsamic from the grocery store is just not cutting it anymore. Also? Strawberries and avocado are two things I would never think of pairing, but now I want to so bad!
And this one is pretty close to fat-free…the little bit of olive oil doesn’t count :) And it’s SO packed with flavor AND ounce of ounce using TJs frozen berries, this dressing was downright Cheap! You would loooooovee the avo/berry pairing knowing you!
I love how you food just seems to pop off the page. So gorgeous. Just finished up our strawberries though. Definitely stocking back up.
Have a beautiful Monday Averie!
You are wayyyy too kind! Thanks and have a great week, too!
This is such a simple, yet elegant meal. Kale and I have had a love-hate relationship. Depending on the dish, I love it or hate it. The strawberry dressing looks like it would compliment the kale wonderfully. There’s a bag of kale sitting in my refrigerator. Looks like I’ll be whipping this salad up very soon.
If you try it, LMK!
This salad looks gorgeous, Averie! I’ve never actually had kale in a salad, so I’m loving this. And that strawberry apple cider dressing sounds so perfect. This will definitely make me forget about the freezing temps in my area!
Thanks for the compliments!
YES. I am trying to get on the kale salad bandwagon…I love it IN things like smoothie, but notsomuch salad.
However, fruit in salads is my “thang” so this might just get me right on board that train! Pinned!
It’s so good with the strawberry dressing, I think you’ll get over your kale hump :) Thanks for pinning!
Another beautiful and very healthful salad! I’ve made a similar vinaigrette with strawberries and balsamic but it has been a long time. The acv sounds good –it has a little more zip to it. For some reason this salad seems so appropriate with Valentine’s Day coming up….gotta give it a try later this week!!
The dressing is so good and sounds like you’ve tried something similar. And yes, I was going for a bit of Valentine’s Day theme with the strawberries (other than dipping them in chocolate…ha!) – thanks for noticing :)
Wow this really makes me long for summer. It looks so tasty and fresh!
The sun is shining today so thanks for the inspiration and a great recipe!
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This salad is so gorgeous…it’s almost too pretty to eat..but I’d manage!!! I love the dressing and can’t wait to try it…I’m not sure I’ve ever had strawberry dressing but I love strawberries so I can’t imagine not loving it. I’m getting another 12 inches of snow today so a fun summery looking salad might be just what we need.
Oh that is so much snow! It was 77F and sunny all weekend in San Diego so this salad doesn’t seem that summery but now that you put it that way with 12″ of snow, okay, I can see that now :)
Thanks for the compliments on it being almost too pretty to eat!