This avocado yogurt dressing is deliciously creamy and perfect on top of your favorite salad or drizzled over tacos. It’s full of healthy fats and protein for a tasty meal!
This dressing is super creamy thanks to ripe avocados and the Greek yogurt gives it a delicious tangy flavor. If you like things spicy, you can turn up the heat with pickled jalapenos or you can leave them out for a more mild flavor. If you love cilantro this one is for you!
Tips for Making Avocado Yogurt Dressing
- Be sure your avocados are soft and ripe. If you’re using small avocados, use two. If you’re using a large avocado, you can just use one.
- I like to use 2% plain Greek yogurt but you can use any type of Greek yogurt you like. Just be sure it’s not sweetened.
- There’s no need to remove the stems from the leafy part of the cilantro. Just remove the longer stems at the end.
Avocado Yogurt Dressing
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 mins
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Salad Dressing
- Method: Blended
- Cuisine: Dressing
Description
This avocado yogurt dressing is deliciously creamy and perfect on top of your favorite salad or drizzled over tacos. It’s full of healthy fats and protein for a tasty meal!
Ingredients
- 1 avocado, pitted and peeled
- 2/3 cup 2% plain Greek Yogurt
- Juice from 1 lime
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, loosely packed
- 1 tablespoon diced pickled jalapenos (optional)
- Pinch of salt
- 1–2 tablespoons water (optional)
Instructions
- In a food processor or blender, add the avocado, yogurt, lime juice, cilantro, and jalapeno.
- Blend until smooth, then add salt to taste.
- Add water to thin, if desired.
Keywords: avocado yogurt dressing
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What’s your favorite taco topping?
This recipe was originally published in May 2016. Updated in June 2020.
Julia @ Drops of Jules
My favorite taco topping is definitely the cheese. But it’s not a taco without some avocado too!
Liz
Avocado is always a must!
Whitney
I love anything with avocados. I especially love a good avocado dressing. I love the addition of the jalapeno brine! Never would have thought of that myself.
Naina
Yum, how good does that dressing look!! Love that it is spicy & healthy!! Would drizzle this all over my tacos! Thank you!
★★★★★
Julie @ Fun in Fairfax VA
This sounds delicious. Hope it keeps because the hubs won’t eat avocado (crazy, I know).
Brandon
This sounds fantastic! I love that you used pickle brine as the acid. Very creative. I made a caesar dressing once with avocado instead of egg. It’s a great dressing ingredient!
Regina
I love spicy yogurt dressing on my tacos – it’s like that perfect contrast of cooling heat. I’ll have to try this one with avocado!
★★★★★
Claudia | Gourmet Project
I love taco nights, I love avocado, and I love girl nights! thanks for making it all better with this recipe 🙂
★★★★★
Sarah @ Making Thyme for Health
I’ve never thought to use jalapeno brine for a dressing but it’s a brilliant idea! Sounds amazing with the avocado and Greek yogurt.
I hope you enjoyed Cinco de Mayo with tacos and Alexa! 🙂
Susan
Yum! This sounds absolutely delicious. I love the addition of lime and the Greek yogurt in place of sour cream! Sounds very refreshing!
Carrie @ Season It Already
Love it! Anything with avocados.
Will this keep a bit because there is lime in it?