Easy Avocado Sauce

This avocado sauce recipe is creamy and flavorful: and magically stays green for days! Use as a dip or on tacos, bowls and more.

Here’s a pocket sauce every cook needs: this quick and creamy sauce Avocado Sauce! All you need is 4 ingredients plus salt. Whisk them together in a blender and dip them into a spoon. It’s creamy, flavorful, tangy and overall fantastic (yes, now we are making up words). Even better: As if by magic, it stays green in the fridge for days! No tricks needed: unlike its cousin, the guacamole. Come and unleash the magic of this green sauce!

Ingredients Avocado Sauce

I hope you love short ingredient lists as much as we do, because this avocado cream sauce packs a big punch with limited ingredients. This is especially useful for a recipe that you’ll likely be preparing while trying to make a main dish at the same time. Better yet, make this sauce earlier in the week and use it in meals throughout the week. Here’s what you need, plus salt (or continue with the recipe below):

• Ripe avocado
• greek yogurt (or sour cream)
• lime
• coriander

The magic of Greek yogurt

Creamy Greek yogurt is often used as a substitute for sour cream in sauces, and here we’ve used it as the base for this delicious cream sauce. Yogurt adds a nice kick to the flavor, and even better, it cuts the calories by about a third.

A cup of sour cream contains 445 calories, while a cup of Greek yogurt contains 100 calories. Because the taste is usually just as good, we typically use Greek yogurt in all of our sauces and dressings. That’s the magic behind healthy salad dressings like our favorite Green Goddess dressing.

Storage information and how to keep it green

This avocado sauce is not only delicious and versatile: it stays green for days. That’s right: no crazy tricks like applying water or plastic wrap like you’ll hear about guacamole. How it works? The acidity of the lime juice naturally turns the avocado green. It sounds crazy, but try it: it works!

This avocado sauce will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days. (Full disclosure: We kept it longer and it still tasted great!) So it’s great for making meals earlier in the week and using it throughout the week.

Ways to use avocado dip

This avocado sauce is so versatile: you can use it on tacos, as a dip, or as a drizzle for bowls. Here are some ideas for using this magical green sauce:

More green sauces

There are many ways to make a killer green sauce: this avocado sauce is one of our favorites! But if you like this one, try this one too:

This avocado sauce recipe is…

Vegetarian and gluten free.