

A simple, raw no-cook recipe for Creamy Avocado Cucumber Noodles with Smoked Salmon that's perfect for a warm weather lunch or dinner.
It needs only 7 ingredients and 15 minutes to throw together.
If you're on a Gluten-Free, Paleo, Low-Carb, Keto, or Whole30 diet - this is a great recipe to add to your meal plan.
🥘 ingredients
- cucumbers
- avocados
- smoked salmon
- lime juice
- dijon mustard
- olive oil
- minced garlic
- onion (optional)
- caper berries (optional)
- cream cheese (optional)
- black sesame seeds (optional)
🔪 instructions
- Start by using a spiralizer to cut the cucumbers into noodles, then salt them evenly and set aside.
- Add the avocado, olive oil, dijon mustard, lime juice, garlic, salt and pepper into a food processor and blitz until completely smooth.
- Take the cucumber noodles and squeeze some of the water out.
- Toss the cucumber noodles in the avocado sauce until all the noodles are evenly coated.
- Top the noodles with your choice of topping. In this case - smoked salmon, cream cheese, thinly sliced onion, caper berries and black sesame seeds.
💭 faq
The easiest way to make cucumber noodles is to use a spiralizer. You can also use a mandolin to slice long strips of cucumber and cut it into slender pieces.
Caper berries are the fruit of a bush, while capers are the unopened buds of the caper bush. Both are generally pickled and bring a nice salty, piquant flavor to your meals.
📋 recipe

Creamy Avocado Cucumber Noodles with Smoked Salmon
Ingredients
- 2 large cucumbers [spiralized]
- 2 large avocados
- 7oz/200g smoked salmon
- 2 tablespoon lime juice [about ½ a lime]
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- to taste salt and pepper
- ½ onion optional [thinly sliced]
- ½ cup caper berries optional
- 4 tablespoon cream cheese optional
- 1 teaspoon black sesame seeds optional garnish
Instructions
- Start by using a spiralizer to cut the cucumbers into noodles. Then salt the noodles evenly (use about 1 teaspoon of salt) and set aside.
- Now, add the avocado, olive oil, dijon mustard, lime juice, garlic, salt and pepper into your food processor and blitz until completely smooth.
- Now, once my avocado sauce is finished, I like to take the cucumber noodles and squeeze some of the water out. This is not strictly necessary, but it does help the avocado sauce stick better to the cucumber noodles.
- Toss the cucumber noodles in the avocado sauce until all the noodles are evenly coated.
- Top the noodles with your choice of topping. In this case - smoked salmon, cream cheese, thinly sliced onion, caper berries and black sesame seeds.
Yvonne says
Great! Quick to prepare when you don’t feel like cooking. Thanks for sharing!
Lisa says
I would like to try this, but a couple of things, I saw this on a healthy, no-cook dinner list, but it doesn't explain where/how to get the smoked salmon. Is that canned? Frozen? And are the noodles soft?
Roche Woodworth says
Hi Lisa! We used fresh smoked salmon and the noodles are just raw spiraled cucumber, so they are slightly crunchy 🙂
Dan c says
Don’t make. My wife almost divorced me for this!
Shay says
That made me laugh! Well, I can't please everyone. I'm sorry it wasn't to your liking.