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This is the ultimate 5-minute creamy avocado sauce recipe that doubles as a dip and salad dressing! Even better, there is no additional oil and instead this vegan avocado cream relies on the creamy, healthy fats in the avocado to make a perfectly rich and silky avocado sauce that you will want to put on everything.
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Table of Contents
- Why You’ll Love this Vegan Avocado Sauce Recipe!
- Ingredients for Creamy Avocado Sauce
- Variations on Vegan Avocado Cream
- How To Make Avocado Sauce
- Toni’s Avocado Sauce Recipe Tips
- Avocado Sauce Recipe FAQs
- Serving Suggestions for Avocado Cream
- Storage Instructions for Vegan Avocado Sauce
- Other Vegan Sauces to Consider….
- Easy Creamy Avocado Sauce Recipe
Why You’ll Love this Vegan Avocado Sauce Recipe!
I make this creamy avocado sauce as part of my weekly meal prep. This simple and flavorful avocado cream, with just a few ingredients, levels up all sorts of dishes. It’s so easy to make and takes just minutes with a food processor. Also, the lemon and apple cider vinegar keeps the avocado sauce from turning brown, allowing you to make it ahead of time!
Sometimes I leave it a little thicker to make creamy avocado dip for crispy breaded tofu sticks or rosemary vegan crackers. Other times I add more water and thin it out to make a creamy avocado dressing for salads and bowls like in this sweet potato quinoa bowl.
If you love avocado sauce, then you should also try this Mexican avocado crema, easy avocado spread, and even this avocado green goddess dressing. All have a slightly different preparation and wildly different tastes.
Ingredients for Creamy Avocado Sauce
All you need are five basic ingredients to make a flavorful and delicious avocado dipping sauce you will want to put it on everything!
Variations on Vegan Avocado Cream
- No lemons? You can also use limes for the dash of citrus!
- Want some spice? Give it some spice with a dash of your favorite hot chili powder or sauce such as cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, or Sriracha.
- Like it smoky? Add in some smoked paprika.
- Have some fresh herbs? Chop up fresh basil, cilantro, mint, scallions, etc.
- Garlick. Throw fresh cloves of garlic into the blender for added flavor depth.
How To Make Avocado Sauce
This simple vegan avocado sauce recipe takes just one step and less than five minutes to make!
Step 1: Place the avocado, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, parsley, and water in the blender or food processor.
Step 2: Blend on high for about thirty seconds, scraping down the sides as needed until smooth and creamy. Finally, taste and add salt and pepper to taste and adjust the vinegar, lemon juice, and water as desired.
Toni’s Avocado Sauce Recipe Tips
- Get creative: Easily add flavors to this creamy avocado sauce to make it unique and fit with your meals.
- Make thick or thin: If you plan to use it during the week as a dressing and as a dip, make the recipe on the thicker side. Then you can stir in additional water to each individual serving when you want a salad dressing.
Avocado Sauce Recipe FAQs
It’s usually a difference in texture and ingredients. Usually with Guacamole (try out this easy guacamole recipe), you mash it with a fork rather than blend it. Also, you add red onion, cilantro, lime juice, chilies, and sometimes other ingredients. On the other hand, this avocado sauce recipe is blended so it’s creamier. Plus, it can vary wildly in the ingredients used to flavor it.
The creamy, mild, slightly fruity flavor of avocado is suited for a wide range of pairings, such as chiles, beans, cilantro, cucumbers, grapefruit, greens, mangos, lemon, lime, quinoa (a complete guide to quinoa), parsley, tomatoes, and dairy-free yogurt. When preparing avocado it can be used in salsas, sauces, salad dressings, soups, salads, or sandwiches.
It’s super simple! All you need to do is follow the instructions in the regular recipe. Once you blend everything, add water, one tablespoon at a time to thin it out to your preferred dressing consistency.
This sauce comes out pretty thick but if you want a thicker version, then reduce the water by one tablespoon and blend it until creamy.
Serving Suggestions for Avocado Cream
This really is a versatile avocado sauce recipe that you can use every day of the week! Try it in any (or all!) of the following ways:
- Dipping sauce: Perfect for crudités (veggie sticks), French fries, wedges, sweet potato fries, or -of course- tortilla chips!
- Salad dressing: Thin it a bit to drizzle over any leafy green salads like a kale salad or taco salad, bean salads, potato salad, or pasta salads (including over zoodles).
- Veggie sauce: Level up simple roasted or grilled veggies with a drizzle of this (like broccoli, sprouts, sweet potato, etc.),
- Mexican food topping: Pairs exceptionally with vegan tacos and taco bowls, burritos and burrito bowls, quesadillas, fajitas, nachos, etc.
- Drizzle/sauce: Over grain bowls, with falafel, a baked potato/sweet potato, roasted or smashed potatoes, vegan sushi, pizza, bruschetta, and more.
Storage Instructions for Vegan Avocado Sauce
For best results, store in an airtight container for up to five days in the refrigerator or in the freezer for up to one month.
Other Vegan Sauces to Consider….
Vegan Dinners
Creamy Vegan Garlic Sauce
Vegan Dinners
Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce
Vegan Sauces & Condiments
Basil Salad Dressing
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Easy Creamy Avocado Sauce Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 ripe avocados
- 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar (or white vinegar)
- 2 Tablespoons of water
- 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice
- 2 Tablespoons of fresh parsley
- 1 ½ teaspoons of salt
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend on high for 30 seconds, scraping down the sides as needed until a thick cream is formed.
Notes
- Get creative: Easily add flavors to creamy avocado sauce to make it unique and fit with your meals.
- Make thick or thin: If you plan to use it during the week as a dressing and as a dip, make the recipe on the thicker side, and then you can stir in additional water to each individual serving when you want a salad dressing.
seems like a helpful, tasty recipe to something I could eat everyday.
You’d so love it! It’s the best!
This sounds amazing! I am making it tonight!
I love this avocado cream! So good 🙂
Gotta love that creamy texture so good!
Just getting to like avocado. I saw this recipe n try it. It was the best cream sauce I ever taste. I also made a dressing out of it for salad. So creamy n delicious.
So glad you tried it and gave it a go! It’s the best!
It’s crazy creamy and delicious! Mmmmm…
Yessss! So so good!
Wow the avocado sauce so good!
It’s a yummy one for sure!
What a yummy avocado sauce!
Agreed! Sooo good and so nutritious too!
This avocado dip is so delicious for tacos and chips! I love how smooth and creamy it is.
So glad you enjoyed it! It’s a favorite for dipping in our household too!
What a wonderfully creamy avocado sauce! The whole family was thrilled! Perfect for dipping and snacking!
So glad everyone enjoyed it! It’s an easy one to love!
Yum! This creamy avocado sauce is timely because we harvested our last batch of avocados today.:) This is my favorite salad dressing already. Thanks!:)
Very cool that you have your own avocado tree!!
Such a delicious and easy sauce to make! Perfect for warm days and a glut of avocados!
Gotta love the easy ones! Plus, having a go-to sauce on hand is crucial!
This recipe sounds so creamy and delicious! Im trying to cut down on dairy, so can use it in place of my cream cheese dips!
Perfect! It’ll definitely make a great sub and add in all the creaminess you need!
Love this avocado creamy sauce!